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 […]
Entries from July 15th, 2007
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 […]
Tags: Newspapers
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 […]
Tags: Concerts·Doh!·Hawth·World music
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.
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 […]
Tags: Concerts·World music
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.
S’not offensive is it?
July 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on S’not offensive is it? · Life
Is ‘snot’ offensive? Apparently the DVLA think it is, hence the ban on number plates starting with SN07 in Scotland. Don’t they have better ways to use their time? It doesn’t even say SNOT it just looks a bit like it if you want it to, and presumably if you find snot offensive you won’t […]
Museum Pieces
July 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I do like the idea of this: hot on the heels of having a museum of computing at Bletchley Park comes the idea of a museum for computer games. It might sound like a trivial thing to devote a museum to, but if we can have whole rooms dedicated to silver thimbles in the V&A […]
Zaine Griff
July 13th, 2007 · Comments Off on Zaine Griff · Music
Before tonight I had never heard what Zaine Griff sounded like, and on a whim I did a search, and turned up this little encapsulation of the 80s. The irony is that Zaine Griff will always remind me of the 70s When I was at school my friend Barry (his name wasn’t Barry. Thats just […]
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays·Spizzenergi
A Crawley UAF at last
July 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on A Crawley UAF at last · Politics
I don’t think tonight could have gone any better if I had actually planned it. We held our proper AGM for a local branch of the UAF and despite my appalling organisational cock-ups recently and some unfortunate timetable clashes there was a reasonable turnout – certainly enough for a valid meeting.
Tags: UAF
