One of the things I love most about this city is the sheer variety of gigs, concerts, shows, performances, recitations, displays, exhibitions, and other incarnations of talent that you are exposed to, and as some of you will no doubt have noticed I like to take advantage of these things from time to time. It…

It's not exactly a secret that I find the almost obsessive viewing of football games to be nothing short of ridiculous, and so you can imagine how excited I was to receive the following email just a minute ago… Dear colleagues As the world cup approaches we thought you'd appreciate some guidance on how we'd…

On the strength of a recommendation from Brian (and lots of latent worship from McJimbo) I bought a ticket to the Zappa Plays Zappa gig at the Albert Hall on Friday night. Bloody glad I did too – what a great gig ! The tone of the evening I think was set by the second…

If it wasn't for the actual specific details of the arrangement, you could easily get depressed about forking out swathes of cash to sit on your arse and watch 60 year olds. In this case, however, the sexagenarians in question were nothing short of awesome. Firstly there was Ladysmith Black Mambazo, supported by The Mahotella…

The game plan was that we were going to head out to Canterbury for a bit of a dance, then on down to Rye for the long weekend. The guys came and collected me from Camden, and The Navigator (names omitted to protect the guilty) indicated that he'd sorted out the best route possible. I…

Greetings from the M25. We may be here for some time. Special greetings to our new Northamptonshire readership.

The tour's going extremely well, with the exception of some fairly rubbish rain arrangements. It hammered down Wednesday and disrupted our tour with the Westminster Men, it was a lovely day yesterday when the Adelaide men went off to France, and now today it's bucketing down again. Go England !! So anyway, following Moulton we…

On tour in the Cotswolds at the minute with the Adelaide Morris Men. Having a bloody good time, what's more! On the weekend we went to Moulton and met & danced with the guys from Saddleworth, Thaxted, Huddersfield, Adderbury, & various other spots. There were some extremely cute girls about too, which is a litlle…

What a wondrous sight was our place of breakfast on Day 2 in Spain – the Museo de Jamon. Museum of Ham. Pure poetry. All that wonderful cured ham, hanging from the roof, waiting for discerning punters likeourselves to come and enjoy it. Apparently the pigs are brought up in a completely stress free environment…

Paul and I went to Madrid for Easter. Weird how that happened – the original idea of going to Russia fell through, so as a last-ditch random effort, Paul's said “How about Madrid ?”. I couldn't think of a compelling reason why not to go, and so before we knew it we found ourselves waiting…