Friday, March 23, 2007
Song With A Mission - The Sounds
Sorry for the lack of posts but things are getting a bit hectic near this PC.
The week started with a pub crawl of Putney on Saturday. This was impromptu as we had planned to see a Who tribute band at the Half Moon, but we couldn’t get in as it was sold out. Still we made sure the pubs had the cricket on and we saw a historic victory for Ireland over Pakistan. Surely the green Isles best sporting result since Gerry Armstrong scored against Spain in 1982. Tragically, the Pakistan coach was found dead the next day (which is now being treated as murder!) which is fairly shocking.
Watched Arsenal crash to yet another defeat in the Windsor on Sunday. A last minute Andy Johnson winner. Highlight for me was seeing Arsene slipping over. Another entertaining match on the TV was Spurs Chelsea on Monday. The fan was out of order for trying to lamp Fat Frank, but the Chelsea players reaction was a bit ott.
Tuesday, I went down to Brighton for the second Thea Gilmore gig of the year. Not quite as good as Bracknall, she did nine new songs, and shunned some of her more familiar stuff. Still did a solid hour and a half and gave me plenty of time to get the 11.02 train. For some reason this train is always delayed at Three Bridges for fourteen minutes which seems pointless to me.
A busy midweek concluded on Wednesday with a trip to the Carling Academy Islington to see the Swedish band, The Sounds. I saw them earlier in the year at the Water Rats (see a January blog entry) and again I was suitably impressed. The lead singer chain-smoked throughout and the guitarist seemed slightly drunk but the music was very good. They included the ballad ‘Night After Night’ this time as well as playing their latest album, only released this week in the UK together with several bonus tracks from the Swedish only debut.
I have made the decision to renew my season ticket at the ‘March Madness’ price. Saints certainly have been mad in March with just one point in four games meaning the play-offs seem someway off. I have also managed to purchase the Shed Seven unreleased album on Japanese import from the Simon Lawler Management website. Played it yesterday and it is really good. Incidentally Rick Witter’s album is out in April and he’s playing the Carling Academy in May which will be a must see.
Tomorrow I am checking out the new Wembley Stadium as I’m watching England Under 21s there. Supposed to be manifique yet I think the gloss will be taken off it by extortionate prices of refreshments. £3.50 a pint of watered down carling anyone?
The week started with a pub crawl of Putney on Saturday. This was impromptu as we had planned to see a Who tribute band at the Half Moon, but we couldn’t get in as it was sold out. Still we made sure the pubs had the cricket on and we saw a historic victory for Ireland over Pakistan. Surely the green Isles best sporting result since Gerry Armstrong scored against Spain in 1982. Tragically, the Pakistan coach was found dead the next day (which is now being treated as murder!) which is fairly shocking.
Watched Arsenal crash to yet another defeat in the Windsor on Sunday. A last minute Andy Johnson winner. Highlight for me was seeing Arsene slipping over. Another entertaining match on the TV was Spurs Chelsea on Monday. The fan was out of order for trying to lamp Fat Frank, but the Chelsea players reaction was a bit ott.
Tuesday, I went down to Brighton for the second Thea Gilmore gig of the year. Not quite as good as Bracknall, she did nine new songs, and shunned some of her more familiar stuff. Still did a solid hour and a half and gave me plenty of time to get the 11.02 train. For some reason this train is always delayed at Three Bridges for fourteen minutes which seems pointless to me.
A busy midweek concluded on Wednesday with a trip to the Carling Academy Islington to see the Swedish band, The Sounds. I saw them earlier in the year at the Water Rats (see a January blog entry) and again I was suitably impressed. The lead singer chain-smoked throughout and the guitarist seemed slightly drunk but the music was very good. They included the ballad ‘Night After Night’ this time as well as playing their latest album, only released this week in the UK together with several bonus tracks from the Swedish only debut.
I have made the decision to renew my season ticket at the ‘March Madness’ price. Saints certainly have been mad in March with just one point in four games meaning the play-offs seem someway off. I have also managed to purchase the Shed Seven unreleased album on Japanese import from the Simon Lawler Management website. Played it yesterday and it is really good. Incidentally Rick Witter’s album is out in April and he’s playing the Carling Academy in May which will be a must see.
Tomorrow I am checking out the new Wembley Stadium as I’m watching England Under 21s there. Supposed to be manifique yet I think the gloss will be taken off it by extortionate prices of refreshments. £3.50 a pint of watered down carling anyone?
# posted by Rich @ 4:10 PM 
