...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Gathering together posts about music, gigs, events, exhibitions, museums and so on, which may be of wider interest. If you are not a total geek in the main creative subjects this is perhaps the place for you.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLight Night is an annual event in Leeds, that has been going for a few years now in which spaces in the city are taken over and become art installations and performance spaces. I had a play with my new(ish) camera and got a few …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s festival time again. I have been running the stewards for the annual Moor Music Festival up near Skipton and camping with the Northern Green Gathering crew. It’s been hard work, but lovely weather and a lot of fun. Here’s a taste of the crazy…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving a new camera, and a big event to play at is perhaps both good and bad. Kirkstall Festival with its very varied mix of sights was a great chance to play, with the Tamron lens, to get in close to the falconry (and the …
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor this month’s London extravaganxa I decided to go out a bit further afield and take a trek out to Greenwich and the Docklands. A long time ago I went on a scout trip staying on the Lord Amory and remember a night walk including …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve tried a new festival experience here, the oddly named Bearded Theory in Derbyshire. This was, in many ways, a very interesting experience! We took ther train down, while some friends carried the bulk of our kit, and (accidentally, honest) due to the discovery of …
Reading Time: 3 minutesBack in London again. Meeting again on St Mary Axe I wandered past the Lloyds Building and Leadenhall Market. I was struck by this mkeshift protest memorial to Ian Tomlinson, the newpaper seller murdered (and I will state my opinion here) by the police recently. …
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in London again. I recall when I was very young and even more obsessed with the Underground that I am now, making my poor father take me on every line – possibly harder now with more gates and barriers – during the course of …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is very exciting. I have been asked to serve on a development user group for some software that we use at work, which is meaning some trips to London over the next year. And very kindly the company has agreed to book my return …
Reading Time: 1 minuteAfter many years, I have finally got to see The Damned again, at Leeds Irish Centre. They were reallygood, much better than the revisiting the punk days line up of the early 90s, playing plenty of the more psychedelic material. The Irish centre, lit up …
