I LOVE THE PROMS!! |
Whenever I tell someone I love the Proms, I'm greeted with a curious stare and an "Uh, so you go waving a flag?" It's a pity that the ghastly pomp-and-circumstance of the last night is the only thing ... Posted by on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:49:00 GMT |
POST OFFICE BLUES - Lorraine Bowen's new video |
London Road Co-Op closed about three years ago due to a falling demand for flat caps, nylon girdles and long johns. It's now a cavernous hollow shell of a building with just a post office tucked away ... Posted by on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:56:00 GMT |
Lady Carol at Another Planet, Hastings 4.7.09 |
Having seen the astonishing performance by Lady Carol at the Brighton Fringe Festival (review here), Erica and I decided to put her on in Hastings at our occasional night, Another Planet. And she didn... Posted by on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:10:00 GMT |
40 years on from the Stonewall riots |
This weekend saw the fortieth anniversary of New York's Stonewall riots, marking the birth of the gay rights movement. Tired of being victimised by police, the clientele of mafia-run Greenwich Villag... Posted by on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:47:00 GMT |
Spacedog at Eat@ in Hastings 20.6.09 |
"This one's about inviting your relatives round for a meal... except they leave without eating anything - because they're dead." That tongue-in-cheek eeriness epitomises Spacedog's darkly humourous t... Posted by on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:00:00 GMT |
Das Fenster 26/5 |
I'm always a bit sad when the Festival ends as it's quite an anticlimax after a month of buzzing round town. So I thought I'd stretch it out a bit by popping into the Holmbush Records launch night at ... Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 04:14:00 GMT |
Copperdollar 23/5 |
The amazing Speakeasy at the Blind Tiger Club at the start of the festival set a high bar for cabaret nights a venue transformed into a sleazy barely-legal dive with stuffed animals, a poker table, ... Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 04:09:00 GMT |
Antony & The Johnsons 21/5 |
This concert with Antony and the Johnsons was even more of a magical experience than I'd anticipated. With a superb six-piece band variously playing cello, violin, drums, guitar, clarinet and sax, Ant... Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 07:01:00 GMT |
Group Doueh, Omar Souleyman/ Marina Celeste, 20/5 |
This was an evening of North African/ Middle Eastern music at the lovely setting of St George's Church in Kemptown. Doueh is a self-taught guitarist from Western Sahara who plays both ordinary electri... Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT |
Eric Walton Esoterica, 16/5 |
Saturday afternoon saw an enjoyable magic and mind reading show with suave and sophisticated master of sleight of hand Eric Walton. A dapper New Yorker, his entertaining show at St Andrew's Church com... Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 06:59:00 GMT |