A man of few words who looks rather like Ian Macshane, the loveable antiques rogue – Lovejoy – but this man just let’s his guitar do all the talking. Before he kicks off, I catch a glimpse of him on stage but with his back to the audience and in the darkness with just a […]
Sunday always seems a little weird for attending a major show event and as we queued at the back of the 02 in a cold and sterile waiting area with no music and little to stimulate interest in passing the hours, you begin to have doubts about why are you doing this……. but once inside […]
Sitting with an enthusiastic set of expectant devotees in the ground floor arena of the Albert Hall, David Gilmour delivered an accomplished set of old and new songs ; new from smash hit Rattle that Lock album, kicking off with 5am and follow up with A Boat Lies Waiting, Another Tongue and the marvellous enigmatic […]
Big numbers turned out last night at Wembley on a very hot evening – London was baking with 3O°C + temperatures to watch the greatest Australian rock band ever. ACDC stood up to be counted – a blaze of sound triumphed their arrival on stage – the lyrics sung by Brian Johnson ( flat cap […]
The Royal Festival Hall was packed on Friday with anticipation of meeting a musical giant. Burt Bacharach songs have been covered in there hundreds by a whole host of great musicians and in a variety of styles. One of my all standing favourites is Walk on By the original and a nerve chilling cover by […]
Where do rainbows come from Daddy? Good question and although we all know about the pot of gold and the yellow brick road the rainbow is still a feat of environmental excellence. A stella event we rather take for granted and my mind turns back to a prism lesson in class all very dull, but […]
As the song recalls it is a wonderful town. Been away too long. Such a polyglot and eye popping city. My more unusual takeaways are watching a man cross the road with a cat sat on his hat- Dr Seuss watch out.! The inner sanctum of the Met where the remake of the Crown Affair […]
Back today to follow up on the Christmas debacle. This time root canal work on a recalcitrant molar made much worse because I had already had this tooth worked on last year within the NHS. Sadly for me their skill set was well below par and although now in the hands of a Ferrari team, […]
I have been unlucky with any trip out of City Airport. Last time the flight was unable to leave for several hours for fog, this time airborne and a short hop to Rotterdam but more fog in Europe meant flight could not land in Rotterda. The pilot then tried unsuccessfully to land in Antwerp before […]
