Went to the National Theatre at London’s Southbank to see FELA! this week. Very, very powerful experience it was too. More an extravaganza than mere musical, the audience are as much a part of the show as the performers on stage.
For the whole of my musical life, I’ve loved Frankie Beverly & Maze. To see them live over the weekend at the Indigo O2 was something special, not only for me but also for my Bro and the other members of IDMC who opened up the show for them on Saturday night. Coming hot on the heals of the SOS Band a few weeks ago, the Indigo is fast becoming the venue of choice, much like Hammersmith Odeon was back in the day for listening to live soul music in London. It’s becoming that place where memories are made. I…
Not too long from now, I’ll be heading off again on another wander to somewhere where I’ve never been before, and as per usual, there’s lots of preparation to do and thinking about what I want to take with me. So far (again as per usual) I’ve done nothing, but one thing that I am thinking about quite a lot is getting some soft contact lens, (Acuvue dailies you know the type). I thought I would just this once ignore what my optometrist says about wearing rigid gas permeable rgp contact lenses due to my severe astigmatism, just because when…
Ever been lucky enough to use a contact lens remover? Reason I ask is that periodically I look at my site stats and I see that this site sometimes comes up in searches for contact lens remover or contact lense removal so I checked back and see that I have previously written on the subject of lens removal sometime last year, so today I took a wander around the net and checked out some of these implement to see what they looked like. Imagine my shock when I saw this image??? No way, said I, that looks ghastly. I would…
Nuke ‘em, spray graffiti all over their specially optimized home page, send a fleet of [tag]Led Zeppelins[/tag] after them, do it all from http://www.netdisaster.com/. Nice bit of fun to waste away the hours instead of doing that work that makes you want to die whilst [tag]clock watching[/tag], or if you are just plain [tag]bored[/tag]!
Have you every been stumped by a phrase that you’ve read on a corporate website or heard in an advertisement for the latest and greatest 2.0 techno-widget? Try out Dack Ragus’ web bullshit generator and see if you recognize any.
If you think that [tag]youth theatre[/tag] is merely for parents hoping to see their offspring treading the boards, ready to pat them on the head and take them out for a celebratory meal after the performance, you may want to re-think that assumption, once you have seen the adaptation of [tag]Ali Smith[/tag]‘s [tag]Hotel World[/tag], presented by Kidbrook School.
