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Entries from July 15th, 2007

Who’s that girl?

July 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Who’s that girl? · Music

There is another addition to the list of stage musicals based on chart acts’ back catalogue. After We Will Rock You based on Queen songs, Mama Mia based on Abba songs and a musicals based on the songs of Madness, Rod Stewart and even Boney M (Daddy Cool) there is a new one I saw […]

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Planet Earth

July 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Planet Earth · Music

Prince's new album is not half bad! Six of the tracks are very good, the rest might be OK, but not to my taste:  Somewhere here on Earth is very dull laid-back lounge jazz, Future Baby Mama is straightforward R&B, Mr Good Night is also very R&B with Prince trying to rap, and All the […]

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Nuru Kane

July 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Nuru Kane · Music

I just realised that Nuru Kane, who I enjoyed enormously yesterday, played in Crawley recently and I missed it. At the time I had not heard his stuff and didn’t know how good he was, and it was bank holiday weekend when we had Ami staying just before having the grandchild so it would have […]

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Plague of ants

July 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Plague of ants · Life

There was a small plague of flying ants in Crawley this afternoon. Our front garden was covered with them.

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Back to life, back to reality

July 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Back to life, back to reality · Music

Yesterday there was a Labour Party national day of action, with lots of members from outside town coming in to join in campaigning activity in Crawley, so of course I was up in Croydon having a picnic. Well, it was the weekend of the Croydon World Party, and that is one of the highlights of […]

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Told you so

July 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics

Got a nice “I told you so”-type post I am dying to write. I think its better left for a few days while I dig up a bit more information but its killing me to not just run with it now, and I’m a bit worried the local papers might get there first.

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