Well I have spent a thoughtful, very pleasant (despite the heat) day lazing in the garden reading and running the battery down on my iPod. I've also been thinking a bit about the concert I saw last night and the environment it took place in. I attended Café Oto to witness what was maybe the fourth or fifth concert in the Workshop Concert Series of gigs that all involve musicians that regularly attend the much-discussed weekly improv workshops run by Eddie Prevost. These events take place monthly, but always on a Monday, which is a very difficult day for me to not be at work, so I have not attended any of them so far. As I have a weeks holiday though I ...
›I'm just back from another hot and sweaty evening in London and my third visit to Café ...
›Another hot stuffy day with quite a bit of it sat on ridiculously hot and overcrowded ...
›So how many improv  groups are there out there that can boast two members called Phil, two called Ben, a Jonathan, a John and a Jane and still have room for six others? So yes last night ...
›Well as has become the norm for me, I don't intend to write much now as I have just got back from London where I saw the  eleven-piece version of Mark Wastell's The Seen group plus Patrick Farmer and Rob Curgenven in duo. I won't talk about the music tonight, but I did enjoy the evening once I got to Café Oto and up until I left the place. The journey each way was dreadful. Coming home tonight I found myself squeezed onto a train with hundreds of forty-something AC/DC fans coming back from a concert at Wembley, each and every one of them dressed in identical t-shirts and all of the women (for some lunatic reason I don't understand) wearing neon flashing ...
›Mortality and how it effects musicians was very much on my mind today after I spent quite ...
›Another tedious, demoralising day, but I am home now and not at work tomorrow so the ...
›An exhausting day today. Its 1AM and I only got in from work half an hour ago, so please excuse the brief post tonight. One piece of good news (for me anyway) is that I have managed to ...
›Monday 22nd June
For the vast majority of readers here that are not from ...
Sunday 21st June
After a week when I have felt quite low, tired, unwell and ...
Saturday 20th June
Sorry for last night's brief grumpy post. I didn't enjoy ...
Friday 19th June
Very tired tonight and not in the mood to post much sorry. ...
Thursday 18th June
Well I made myself chuckle quite a bit walking to work ...
Wednesday 17th June
As I mentioned at some point over the last few days, there ...
Tuesday 16th June
So you have had two long reviews about music from me, ...
Monday 15th June
and so to Friday then... I was up really early despite ...
Sunday 14th June
So the Unnamed Music Festival, its people, its places and ...
Saturday 13th June
Leeds city centre on a Saturday night is dreadful. I'm not ...
Friday 12th June
I am back home for just about long enough to get some sleep ...
Thursday 11th June
Well I am in London, in the rather nice little lounge area ...
Wednesday 10th June
Well its nearly 2AM and I am only just starting tonight's ...
Tuesday 9th June
I won't bore you with another story of my tough day ...
Monday 8th June
Another poor quality post tonight sorry, but I have to be ...
Sunday 7th June
A productive day today for the first day in ages. Nice to ...
Saturday 6th June
A better day today, sorry for the depressing posts of late. ...
Friday 6th June
I am very glad this week, as far as work is concerned is ...
Thursday 4th June
So some notes this evening on another Creative Sources ...
Wednesday 3rd June
Ugh. A very long day and a very late journey home after a ...
Tuesday 2nd June
So last night I rushed away from work and caught two ...
Monday 1st June
I'm just home from yet another concert, (I'm pleased to say ...