4 years to the day after I was able to get tickets to see Kate Bush in London, I scored tickets to seeSpringsteen on Broadway!

These are the most expensive concert tickets I've ever bought, mind. (Although taking inflation into account, probably the second-most expensive concert I'll have gone to. The Concert for New York City was just a little ( Read more... )

A cover version I hadn't heard before! I mean, I adore the Siouxsie and the Banshees original version, and I love the covers by School of Seven Bells and Anna Nalick (which I may like even more than the original). There's another I found on YouTube by the Frantic Ballerinas which was...OK, but not great. I like this one though ( Read more... )

I still need to write about GAFilk and Arisia and Saturday's adventures in radio and at the company party, but for now, I want to go in another direction. I've been waiting eagerly for the next book in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, which has been delayed multiple times here and is finally scheduled for US release on 31 January. In ( Read more... )

Today is the official release date of Kate Bush's "Before the Dawn" live CD, recorded live in London at the Eventim Apollo in 2014. I was fortunate enough to be there for the 09 September show ( Read more... )

...and Famous.

I'm neither of those two things. I mean, I've *been* naked today when I was showering, but I'm at work right now and although we're pretty casual here we aren't THAT casual. And I'm pretty sure that I'm not famous for anything.

But that said, on Saturday night I went into NYC to go see The Naked and Famous at the Hammerstein ( Read more... )

So last night I made my way into NYC to see Lush at Terminal 5 in Manhattan. The last time I was there was in December 2013 to see Sleater-Kinney. This was a much less crowded show and skewed a bit older.

I'd not heard the opening act, Tamaryn, before, but thought that she went well with Lush's dreampop. The one BAD thing was that, being ( Read more... )

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A few months back my friend Susan sends me an email saying, "Hey, Steeleye Span are playing in New York in July! Wanna go?" Well, sure, of course I do! That sounded great to me. I have't seen them since they played with Renaissance and Fairport Convention (which Google tells me was June of 1985 in at the Beacon Theater. Holy crap, that's 30 ( Read more... )

Again, something those of you on Bok av ansikten will have seen.

A few months before Archipelacon, I'd asked if any of my Swedish friends would be able to get me a Swedish sälgflöjt, because I really like the sound and I wanted to learn how to play. thette volunteered and delivered it to me while we were waiting for the ferry from Stockholm to ( Read more... )