Have my tickets for Poole too. I hear they do a version of Echoes too - which should be amazing. Used to love listening to Echoes in the dark laying between the speakers as a teen
I"ve seen Austrailian Pink Floyd a couple of times and they did Echoes...it was something else! Took jnr along, he'd have been about 12 or 13 at the time. At the interval, this guy in the row behind me tapped me on the shoulder, pointed to jnr and said to me "Good parenting skills" and gave me a thumbs up now he's taking me to this as it's a couple of days after my birthday....gonna be a busy week as I've also got Fat White Family on 16th and Foo Fighters on 17th
We are almost in Fort Pierce, Florida where we are going to spend the next month, hopefully with warm, see unnu weather with lots of beach days. Population is around 50k and there is a very good US Navy SEALS museum that we have previously visited. Also a nice National Park with along sandy beach. We will also spend lots of time on Lake Worth) one hour further south where our friends live (we are staying with Harry's parents who have an 8 bedroom home with a swimming pool). Checking out Fort Pierce vicinity, apparently due to a higher than average crime rate it is given the nickname of "Fort Fierce"!
@sb_73 just got my tickets for The Libertines tour in October...selling fast if you and your son are going....Birmingham Academy on Oct 3 still has tickets available
Envious Strolls. Would have loved to see Zeppelin back in the day. Will never forget the emotion just listening to Robert Plant singing Kashmir live.
There’s a programme on BBC now which normally I would avoid in the knowledge it would make me feel sick. But I’ve ended up watching it. It made me feel sick. It’s the story, and broader story, behind the rape and murder of Sarah Everard. Of course the pathetic, duplicitous and utterly useless behaviour of the police in policing themselves is shocking and disgusting. But it’s not just about the police. Sometimes I am just ashamed of men, of being a man. When you see footage of men screaming at and mocking women protesting against the violence against them you realise the depth of the depravity we are dealing with. Why the **** should my, or your, daughter or wife, trust any man when they all have direct experience of the contempt and hatred with which many pathetic, inadequate ‘men’ hold against them? In 2021-22 over 70,000 rapes were reported to police. Of course some would not be genuine. But of these 70,000 reports only 1,300, less than 2%, led to convictions. Sorry, probably the wrong thread for this. It was a harrowing, but excellent, programme.
Anybody watched The Way on BBC? Directed by Michael Sheen it's a take on how something like the Miners' strike might be handled in Britain today. It also references the plight of refugees, with a family on the run from Port Talbot encountering border guards stopping them entering England. Dystopian, somewhat bonkers, and sadly rather clichéd in parts, it's still worth a go if you haven't seen it. We still have one episode to go, so don't give anything away if you have. Looking forward to The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson, starting on C4 tonight. Hopefully as much fun as watching Chelsea lose the European Cup Final, with John Terry missing a penalty.
BBC4 on fire tonight. Started watching Green Book without knowing what it was about or that it is essentially a true story. Excellent acting and a moving story. And now the incomparable The Third Man is on. Bliss.
I need to watch this. Mrs SW is away for a couple of days, so may have just shot to second on the list after ‘the game’.
I'm watching the remake of James Clavells' Shogun. I'm just about old enough to remember my parents watch the Richard Chamberlain version, but this is a superb re-imagining of it. Great sets, costumes and plenty of brutality by the Japanese so far. Three episodes released so far - it's on FX, think you can get it on Disney+ too...
BBC Top of the Pops from 1994 or 95 on telly. To my amazement Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue duetting on Wild Roses on it, live (ish, I think the singing is live) in the studio. It’s ****. Both look entirely strung out and neither singing in tune. New Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album out soon, Wild Gods.
Clavell’s enormous novels were a guilty pleasure of mine a few decades ago. I think I was recommended one, Noble House I suspect, when I lived in Hong Kong in the early eighties. They are massive soap operas but it has to be said he knew the Far East and its various cultures pretty well, and even as a former prisoner of war seemed to have a kind of respect for the Japanese. But the white man was always the hero. I never saw the Richard Chamberlain version and won’t see this one as it’s not on a platform I pay for.
I really like him, especially as a songwriter (he’s certainly not a great singer), and he and his band are meant to be immense live - sadly never seen them - but I can understand that he passes many by. There is something po faced and self referential about him, but also something genuinely poetic and they can really rock when the mood takes them. Good job we don’t all like the same stuff really. How dull that would be.
I've seen him.once, and it was a mesmerising performance - me n Mrs Steels still talk about it. We did ten T in the Park festivals and his performance was definately one of the highlights over those years.
