music

is this really a disco for the elderly ?

we saw gruff rhys on saturday night. magical musical bonkers genius brilliance

these boxes would have contained lots of lovely christmas presents for peoplel. a rock and roll christmas.

i had two meetings in london a few weeks back with an hour between them, so i sat in on a 45 minute organ recital. london is great.

we went to see delirious? yesterday. most excellent

jane and i went to see jason spaceman on monday night. fantastic stuff, but we weren’t as close as last time, which i think is reflected in these pictures !

Ian organised an exclusive evening with Bill Mallonee, a singer of americana (and friend of top american musicians like peter buck etc apparently)

between his songs he did comedy patter and all was good.

like all the best musicians he did lots of gurning whilst playing

this looks fantastic – i can’t wait ! Order yours now. you know it makes (charitable) sense !

on saturday night in vienna, jane and i stumbled upon an austrian drinking event type thing where everyone sat on long tables etc. there was an oompah band playing and people were waltzing and jiving and other dance moves. when they had finished playing their songs everyone clapped so loud they had to do an encore. And what an encore it was.
They ended up playing a medley of all sorts of songs including the classic austrian song – agadoo. You can’t really see in the video here, but people were still waltzing down the front whilst a giant conga was flowing round the room. fantastic stuff.

franz ferdinand

kaiser chiefs

yeah yeah yeahs

belle and sebastian

The Mystery Jets

Peaches

Gogol Bordello

Guillemots

these photos are more to prove that i was there than offer any insight in to what the various bands actually looked like. this year i decided not to take too many photos. so i only took my small camera.

sometimes london is so civilised. last week, when there was all the kuffle about planes, there was this nice little jazz festival in the park next to Paddington station.
if your flight had been cancelled you could have drowned your sorrows with a jug of Pimms (£7.95), some trad jazz and perhaps a little dance down the front