Monday 29th June
I’m just back from another hot and sweaty evening in London and my third visit to Café Oto in four days. I’m pretty tired now at 2.30AM so I’m not going to attempt to write up the concert tonight, but I will tomorrow, along with a CD review or two as well, all being well. I’m off of work for a few days now, and even though there are a few gigs in London over the next few days I suspect I will now rest up here, listen to some CDs, sort out some sleeve designs, catch up on other Cathnor tasks and hopefully get some writing done, both for this blog and elsewhere. I don’t think I could handle making the long trip into town again for a few days, particularly as the weather forecast is predicting even more of this silly weather. The 149 bus from Liverpool St to Dalston is bad enough at the best of times, its even worse when the bus becomes a sauna. Tomorrow then.
you know, with all the money you must spend going back & forth to London (& elsewhere) you could set up Cafe Oxo nights in Oxford & then you wouldn’t have to go very far
Actually Jez, that is an interesting point, and of course one I have considered, but apart from the fact that I really don’t need the added hassle, a big, big part of my enjoyment of attending Café Oto is down to the social element to the place, aside from the music. In almost twenty years of attending improv gigs in London I have never known anywhere quite like Oto from that perspective.
How English can one be, calling this beautiful summer “silly weather”
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well, on a serious note I wouldn’t actually wish the stress related to running events here in Blighty on you anyway ! & of course, the social side of things is part of the ability to enjoy them – having to run them usually means your too busy or stressed to pay the proper attention to the performances themselves anyway – unless you get slaves involved
the problem Hans, is that the heat curls up the corners of one’s cucumber sandwiches, and one can’t be doing with that.
I hate the heat, always have done.
well, I don’t know how hot it is in blighty right now as i’m here at q-o2 in Bruxelles but it has been stupidly hot all the time here. On top of that I broke my coolest trousers (cool as in temperature !), super glued my fingers together trying to mend them & dropped the apartment keys down a grate & had to get the police to help find objects to build a make shift fishing pole to get them out. So, i’m looking forward to UK hot – it must be cooler than here !
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