Holidays

I have been on holidays for the past two days, having not used up enough of my holiday leave during the year I've been forced to finish up two days earlier than the usual Christmas break. Which is fine by me. Has been nice mooching around for a couple of days while everyone else is still at work. The weather over here has got cold all of a sudden, with the temperature hovering around zero, and a blanket of fog causing chaos at Heathrow. Many European flights being cancelled so I am glad I hadn't booked to go anywhere. One upside to the fog though is that it gives some great photo ops, which I made the most of today while heading in to town to do some last minute shopping.

Bragging Rights

After the Jarvis gig on Saturday night, Sunday offered up another gig of an old favourite of mine - Billy Bragg. The gig was out at Hackney Empire which is a great venue - apart from it being quite hard to get to by public transport. Well, okay, fair enough - getting there was fine. It was just when trying to get home I took the wrong bus and ended up at the end of a bus route outside a hospital in the middle of who knows where. That combined with missing the last tube, night buses and then the night bus breaking down made for a bit of a extended trip home. Anyway, enough of that ....
Billy was in fine form - opening with Milkman of Human Kindness and finishing up with A13 Trunk Road To The Sea (joined by Wiggy on stage) - with a great mix of tunes in the middle and the usual banter.
L : Hackney Empire R : Billy and Wiggy playing A13

Jarvis - Take 2

It has been a while since the last post- I have been a busy boy. Last Saturday headed up to Camden to see Jarvis play at the Roundhouse. Another brilliant gig, with a bit more crowd banter than the previous one. Played all new stuff and a couple of covers - no Space Oddity this time though. I wasn't very close so no photos this time - you'll have to take my ticket as evidence. If you don't have the new album you really should get it. Be nice - buy it for someone for Christmas .....

And now for my first youtube post - Jarvis Cocker's new film clip - pretty funny.

10 Years Ago Today ...

- after finishing my University exams - I flew to Europe for 6 weeks travelling around with a bunch of guys from Uni. Where that 10 years went I am not so sure. Scary.

Deja Vu

Just after I posted the previous entry - I realised I had already banged on about early sunsets in this blog - so I searched my blog for "sunset" and found this entry "At Home Sick". Just over a year ago I had been at home sick and complaining about the sun setting early too. Deja vu indeed. No random python posts last year though ....

Photo Exibition : In The Face of History

Went to the "In the Face of History - European Photographers in the 20th Century" photo exhibtion at the Barbican yesterday. Interesting collection of images - most of the photographers I had never heard of though. Well worth a look. The Barbican itself is quite interesting - it managed to top a poll of Londons ugliest buildings - its like a massive warren of brown bricks and cement.
Anyway - I took a few photos below. The first one was taken a bit after four in the afternoon (the EXIF is wrong - I need to set the time on my camera). As you can see it is already dark. Sunset is just before 4pm at the moment - giving about 8 hours of daylight. I bet the Australian readers among you are feeling pretty smug right now. Summer. hrrumph.