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Just watched I Swear, the film about Tourettes sufferer and activist John Davidson. Warm and uplifting, with a brilliant lead performance by Robert Aramayo.

Is it wrong to say that it's also very funny?
 
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We watched Marty Supreme last night. Very enjoyable film. Loosely based on the early life of US table tennis champion Marty Reisman, it follows Marty Mauser and his struggles to get to the world championships at Wembley, and later to Tokyo. He gets in to loads of scrapes with quick-win schemes to get the money he needs, constantly falling at the last hurdle. Timothee Chalomet is great as the main character. It's a fun filled 2 ½ hours long, but it doesn't feel dragged out. A good 7.5/10
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Saw that some weeks ago, really enjoyed it. I thought Marty was a vile character though.
 
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PETRUS Gordon Ramsay. Knightsbridge.

Went at the weekend having seen Gary Eats on YouTube which showed a nice looking lunch for £60 a head.

Good food, as you’d expect (it has a Michelin star) and wonderful service from the delightful staff.

Sadly, £60 a head is the weekday price. At the weekend it’s markedly more from £120 a head. There are three fixed menus. I felt committed once sat down so the circa £150-£200 treat I anticipated was ultimately £450 with a few drinks. It’ll be Lidl for me now until Easter but it was a memorable lunch and I’d recommend it albeit for a weekday.
 
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Giselle at the ROH
Never seen this ballet before had no idea how great the music was.
This must be the hardest job in ballet for the main two characters Giselle and that bastard Albrecht who gets danced to death by the “Willis” ( snigger) though that silly girl lets him off. Although not perfect performance from the extras I am so amazed at the brilliance of the total performance despite Chalamet comments.
I do enjoy a night like this once in a while.
 
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Been a busy week...

Friday went to King Tuts to see Paul Draper. King Tuts is one of the best venues I've been to...holds 300, low ceilings, always a great atmosphere. Paul Draper was the lead singer of 90s band Mansun, one of my favourites of the era. This tour has a full band with him performing Mansuns 14 top 40 hits. Place was absolutely heaving, very excitable Friday night crowd in Glasgow...great gig.

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Saturday night... Barrowlands for Geese, one of the hottest tickets in town these days. I've liked these guys since their early stuff, so bought tickets for their gig at SWG3, a smaller venue (500 capacity), but after they released their new albun they hit the big time and the gig got moved to the Barras, another superb venue (1900 capacity) and another two nights added! Filled with a lot younger crowd, lots of whooping, plenty of crowd surfing and a lot of jumping around. Geese were very good - if you've not listened to Getting Killed give it a go.

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Tuesday night, off to the OVO Hydro...horrible venue, holds about 14,500 with standing....corporate as ****, my least favourite indoor venue in the city (Hampden is the worst by far for a gig). This was the third night of Gorillaz world tour for The Mountain, a very chilled album with lots of influence from India and the far east, lots of sitar, bongos and other Asian instruments and vocalists. Was a bit dubious as to how this would come across on a large stage....well, it was ****ing fantastic. Honestly up there with some of the best gigs I've ever been to. Damon Albarn has a brilliant aet of musicians alongside him, backing singers whose voices are fantastic, and a seemingly never ending parade of guest vocalists, including Joe Talbot from IDLES who we're all big fans of. On top of the great music, the visuals were jaw droppingly stunning. Lots of footage of Noodle, 2-D, Murdoc and Russel from the videos, along with additional guest vocalists including Mark E Smith, Sparks,and Bobby Womack.

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Not my videos, but gives you an idea of the scale of the show. Easy 9/10, probably woukd be higher if it had been at a different venue
 
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Been a busy week...

Friday went to King Tuts to see Paul Draper. King Tuts is one of the best venues I've been to...holds 300, low ceilings, always a great atmosphere. Paul Draper was the lead singer of 90s band Mansun, one of my favourites of the era. This tour has a full band with him performing Mansuns 14 top 40 hits. Place was absolutely heaving, very excitable Friday night crowd in Glasgow...great gig.

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Saturday night... Barrowlands for Geese, one of the hottest tickets in town these days. I've liked these guys since their early stuff, so bought tickets for their gig at SWG3, a smaller venue (500 capacity), but after they released their new albun they hit the big time and the gig got moved to the Barras, another superb venue (1900 capacity) and another two nights added! Filled with a lot younger crowd, lots of whooping, plenty of crowd surfing and a lot of jumping around. Geese were very good - if you've not listened to Getting Killed give it a go.

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Tuesday night, off to the OVO Hydro...horrible venue, holds about 14,500 with standing....corporate as ****, my least favourite indoor venue in the city (Hampden is the worst by far for a gig). This was the third night of Gorillaz world tour for The Mountain, a very chilled album with lots of influence from India and the far east, lots of sitar, bongos and other Asian instruments and vocalists. Was a bit dubious as to how this would come across on a large stage....well, it was ****ing fantastic. Honestly up there with some of the best gigs I've ever been to. Damon Albarn has a brilliant aet of musicians alongside him, backing singers whose voices are fantastic, and a seemingly never ending parade of guest vocalists, including Joe Talbot from IDLES who we're all big fans of. On top of the great music, the visuals were jaw droppingly stunning. Lots of footage of Noodle, 2-D, Murdoc and Russel from the videos, along with additional guest vocalists including Mark E Smith, Sparks,and Bobby Womack.

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Not my videos, but gives you an idea of the scale of the show. Easy 9/10, probably woukd be higher if it had been at a different venue
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I love Damon. I'd marry him, but he's Chels.....
 
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The Leo Green show I mentioned earlier was so good that my normal smiley grin of enjoyment actually turned into involuntarily laughter.

Just wonderful.
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Where was the venue Strolls? Looks amazing. I do enjoy the smaller venues where it feels so much more inclusive with the music and the band.
 
So I don't know much about Shakespear, tried my hardest to skip those lessons at school, but just watched the 2019 film The King, based on Shakespears plays about Henry V. Timothee Chalomet plays the young King Henry V, raising from a beligerant drunk in the taverns to the throne after the death of his father and brother, then leading the battle against the French at Agincourt. Found it very good - no idea if it's historically accurate (doubtful) or true to Shakespears works (bit of artistic license I would think by the director), but it is superbly acted. Chalomet is a very good lead, and he has a great supporting cast in this film too. No doubt lovers of "the bard" (@sb_73 ?) will rip this apart, but as an outsider I thought it was nicely done and well worth a watch.
 
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So I don't know much about Shakespear, tried my hardest to skip those lessons at school, but just watched the 2019 film The King, based on Shakespears plays about Henry V. Timothee Chalomet plays the young King Henry V, raising from a beligerant drunk in the taverns to the throne after the death of his father and brother, then leading the battle against the French at Agincourt. Found it very good - no idea if it's historically accurate (doubtful) or true to Shakespears works (bit of artistic license I would think by the director), but it is superbly acted. Chalomet is a very good lead, and he has a great supporting cast in this film too. No doubt lovers of "the bard" (@sb_73 ?) will rip this apart, but as an outsider I thought it was nicely done and well worth a watch.
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Looking forward to giving this a watch. Would be nice if Chalomet's sister were in it too, but I believe "voice" is her specialty!
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So I don't know much about Shakespear, tried my hardest to skip those lessons at school, but just watched the 2019 film The King, based on Shakespears plays about Henry V. Timothee Chalomet plays the young King Henry V, raising from a beligerant drunk in the taverns to the throne after the death of his father and brother, then leading the battle against the French at Agincourt. Found it very good - no idea if it's historically accurate (doubtful) or true to Shakespears works (bit of artistic license I would think by the director), but it is superbly acted. Chalomet is a very good lead, and he has a great supporting cast in this film too. No doubt lovers of "the bard" (@sb_73 ?) will rip this apart, but as an outsider I thought it was nicely done and well worth a watch.
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Nothing sacrosanct, if it’s good it’s good. Not seen it myself but from what I read it is neither faithful to Shakespeare (to be that you really have to use his words) nor historically accurate, but I don’t think it pretended to be. One of the key characters, Falstaff, of course didn’t really exist, made up by Shakespeare.

Henry V is on at the RSC at the moment, but I haven’t had a chance to see it yet. I do like the history plays though.
 
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A day at the theatre today for a matinee performance of Murder Trial-Death of a Landlord at the Pavilion in Glasgow. Sold out show at an old Victorian theatre right in the centre of town.

Stage is set up like a courtroom, with a couple of video screens, and starts off with a landlord visiting one of his premises whose tennants are seven months overdue with the rent. After threatening the tennants with eviction, the landlord returns to his office with his 6year old daughter - later that evening he has his throat cut which the daughter witnesses.

The video screens off, and on comes the judge, prosecution and defense council...and the accused. Witnesses are called to the stand, evidence produced, cross examinations and final summaries then we, the audience, get to act as jury and cast our verdict interactively by our phones.

Found it quite thought provoking having never had to do jury duty. Once the verdict was announced they then showed footage showing what happened. The show is based on an actual murder and the subsequent trial, so it was interesting to see how a real jury came to their verdict....although I do think the evidence produced during the show tried to push you down a certain route.

At two and a half hours it's not a short show. Apparently this is the fourth edition of the format, and there's another coming next year which we'll try and get to. Enjoyable afternoon, followed by an excellent meal at Little Vietnam across the street from the theatre. Two courses with drinks for only £35 a head, huge portions too, then home before big Storm Dave hits town!
 
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A day at the theatre today for a matinee performance of Murder Trial-Death of a Landlord at the Pavilion in Glasgow. Sold out show at an old Victorian theatre right in the centre of town.

Stage is set up like a courtroom, with a couple of video screens, and starts off with a landlord visiting one of his premises whose tennants are seven months overdue with the rent. After threatening the tennants with eviction, the landlord returns to his office with his 6year old daughter - later that evening he has his throat cut which the daughter witnesses.

The video screens off, and on comes the judge, prosecution and defense council...and the accused. Witnesses are called to the stand, evidence produced, cross examinations and final summaries then we, the audience, get to act as jury and cast our verdict interactively by our phones.

Found it quite thought provoking having never had to do jury duty. Once the verdict was announced they then showed footage showing what happened. The show is based on an actual murder and the subsequent trial, so it was interesting to see how a real jury came to their verdict....although I do think the evidence produced during the show tried to push you down a certain route.

At two and a half hours it's not a short show. Apparently this is the fourth edition of the format, and there's another coming next year which we'll try and get to. Enjoyable afternoon, followed by an excellent meal at Little Vietnam across the street from the theatre. Two courses with drinks for only £35 a head, huge portions too, then home before big Storm Dave hits town!
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We went to a similar show a couple of years ago. Interesting and entertaining stuff.

To Richmond tonight to see Sunny Afternoon, the Kinks musical, again. Such a great show, and I'm always stunned by the talent of the performers. They're actors, singers and musicians all at once. A joyous night out.
 
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