Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I have always been a big Genesis fan and Gabriel-era Genesis in particular. I was too young to see Genesis in concert with Gabriel as the front man so seeing him live has always been on my bucket list. To be fair I had seen him play in 2007 but this was at a festival …
Continue reading “Peter Gabriel, O2 Arena, 20th June 2023 – Don’t Look Down”
I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast two concerts that I have been to recently – American pop rockers The Band CAMINO and British aging rockers Mike + the Mechanics. The Band CAMINO, O2 Institute, Birmingham The Band CAMINO have been around long enough to release an EP and their eponymous debut …
Continue reading “The Band CAMINO vs. Mike + the Mechanics, May 2023”
My annual round-up of the year just gone (you can read 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021‘s reports). This was very much a transitional year as I moved from working part time to retirement at the end of August. I haven’t fully retired yet as I am still doing some consultancy but my daily rhythm has …
On a trip up North over the last few days we visited Scarborough home of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Most closely associated with Alan Ayckbourn (all but four of his plays have debuted there) but we weren’t seeing an Ayckbourn but the revival of a play called Constellations by Nick Payne. When we got in …
Continue reading “Constellations, Stephen Joseph Theatre – Into the Multiverse”
I was supposed to be visiting the Science Museum today to see their science fiction exhibition. I’d deliberately left the booking of my ticket for this and the train until yesterday as I didn’t want to be going up if it was bucketing it down as I was intending to walk from the station to …
Continue reading “British Museum – Hieroglyphs unlocking ancient Egypt Exhibition”
WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD! If you haven’t been and want to keep the magic for when you do stop reading now! When it was announced a year or so ago that ABBA were reforming and would be performing I knew that we would have to go. ABBA has long been a guilty pleasure of ours. The …
Continue reading “ABBA Voyage, ABBA Arena, London, 25th August 2022”
There is a shop in Reading that I regularly frequent and takes plenty of money off me and that’s the Oxfam Music Shop on Duke Street. It is a tiny place, not much bigger than my front room but it packs a lot in such a small space. They always have a great selection of …
This is the fourth summary of my year that I have done (you can read 2018, 2019 and 2020‘s reports) and, for reasons I will outline below, this year is very much incomplete. Nevertheless it is still worth taking time to assess the year. Data for this report has as ever been taken from a …
Well what a year that was! Not quite the one I was expecting to have that’s for sure. We didn’t get to go on the holidays we had planned but we got to see a lot more of our granddaughter which was more than adequate compensation. For me the adjustment due to the pandemic wasn’t …
On a normal year by this point I would have have been to see, on average, about five music concerts. This, of course, is not a normal year by any means and so the total stands exactly at a measly one. There were supposed to be more. I had booked to see Steve Hackett (twice), …