What's going on in the world?

I had three meals of Indian food this week, which, seeing as I don't really like it that much, is just a bit weird.....I'll post more details sometime, maybe...

They weren't here for me, I hope

Ah, back to my old blogging ways, and not really keeping up to speed, about two weeks ago I went to see Interpol with Susie at the Astoria...

They are about to release their third album, and originally when I heard their stuff a few years back I wasn't too interested, although I know some other people from work who were in on the act from early days, but since then I've heard enough to make me want to see them.

Anyway, only one support act, and it was the Maccabees (who you might remember we also saw supporting the Fratellis). This time we didn't have the Horrors to come on and destroy our eardrums so could hear them more, and also I knew two or three songs from the radio, but they were still only so-so in my opinion.

Interpol themselves were pretty good, although it was a bit weird going to a concert that only lasted about an hour and a quarter, seeing as the last two or three had been far longer, but I think that was fair as they do have a sound that can get a bit samey if you listen to them for a long time.

As always, most of them were dressed up in suits, and they do seem to have cultivated a moody look about them, not depressed, just not smiling, except for maybe the guitarist, who did smile, and also was doing some interesting dancing whilst playing, kind of all bendy legged.

They played most of the songs I knew (which were off the second album) except my favourite, but it wasn't a single so I didn't really expect them to (I've stuck a live version below). It finished by 10 as well for G-A-Y so it meant it wasn't a late one coming home, which is always a bonus.

Not a good sounding noise....

I forgot to mention that last week I won tickets to go see The Twang at some small place in London (I think it's called 229), but couldn't go as it was the same day as the pool tournament.....luckily I caught them at the 02 thing the other week, but still, that makes two concert ticket wins I've had in the last few weeks or so, wonder if I'll make it a hat-trick...

My Generation?

It seems we are living in an ADHD world, as, on Saturday we went to see Pirates of the Caribbean III, which, I might add, is a 12A, and isn't overly long at 2 1/2 hours, yet the cinema felt the need to insert an 'interval' into the film about an hour from the end. I say interval, although it mainly consisted of the film stopping abruptly and the lights coming up. There was no announcement how long it would be so quite a few people who took a break missed the startup.

Seriously, I went to see almost 4 hours of the Lord of the Rings (Return of the King) without a break, and I'm pretty sure the Harry Potter movies are all at least as long, with probably more kids in the audience, and younger kids probably, as at a 12A I wouldn't expect lots of little ones..... I don't know, it's just weird

Ah, clean air

I'm not normally one for social commentary, but I couldn't let today (July 1st) pass without expressing how happy I am the public smoking ban is now in force...

no more having sore throats and smoky clothes after an evening in the pub or at a concert, no more having smoke blown in my face when I would much rather not, and no more of the stale smoke smell in so many places....superb