More inchoate ramblings
After all, that's what this is all for isn't it?
Feeling slightly better. Certainly better than earlier in the week.
So, more drinking then.
Saw Hawkwind on Wednesday evening, down in Brighton. Arguably the top pop band of our age. And despite them playing as a 3-piece (not my favourite - too much pre-programmed sequencer stuff, when I want to see "live" music. And one of the worst gigs I've ever seen was Hawkwind as a 3-piece, at Liverpool, back in '92 - put me off seeing them again for years) they were rather good. Played a stomping version of "Psychadelic Warlords". Although I still maintain they'd be better with a couple of extra people - Simon House adding his violin, Huw Lloyd-Langton playing lead guitar and maybe bring back Arthur Brown to do his mad frontman thing (something that's always worked for the Hawks, back since the days of the late Robert Calvert).
Made a remarkable discovery, too. On Thursday, having a day off work, we went up into London, hoping to take lunch in the "pie room" of the Newman Arms pub - famous for its pies. Unfortunately it was both full and fully booked all day (a pie room? Fully booked? Just goes to show how good pies are!), so we pottered on over to Covent Garden where, nestling above the West Cornish Pastie outlet, is a small pub/bar thing which serves splendid Cornish beers, mead (Yay! Mead! Feel like a viking. Albeit a pissed Viking....) and pasties from the pastie place. Heartily recommended.
Youngs' pubs are the order of the day, today. Yippee!
Feeling slightly better. Certainly better than earlier in the week.
So, more drinking then.
Saw Hawkwind on Wednesday evening, down in Brighton. Arguably the top pop band of our age. And despite them playing as a 3-piece (not my favourite - too much pre-programmed sequencer stuff, when I want to see "live" music. And one of the worst gigs I've ever seen was Hawkwind as a 3-piece, at Liverpool, back in '92 - put me off seeing them again for years) they were rather good. Played a stomping version of "Psychadelic Warlords". Although I still maintain they'd be better with a couple of extra people - Simon House adding his violin, Huw Lloyd-Langton playing lead guitar and maybe bring back Arthur Brown to do his mad frontman thing (something that's always worked for the Hawks, back since the days of the late Robert Calvert).
Made a remarkable discovery, too. On Thursday, having a day off work, we went up into London, hoping to take lunch in the "pie room" of the Newman Arms pub - famous for its pies. Unfortunately it was both full and fully booked all day (a pie room? Fully booked? Just goes to show how good pies are!), so we pottered on over to Covent Garden where, nestling above the West Cornish Pastie outlet, is a small pub/bar thing which serves splendid Cornish beers, mead (Yay! Mead! Feel like a viking. Albeit a pissed Viking....) and pasties from the pastie place. Heartily recommended.
Youngs' pubs are the order of the day, today. Yippee!
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