Marillion did a (fairly short) UK tour just after the new album came out and we went to the show in London on 16th Sept. We did a bit of museuming beforehand (which I'll write up another time), then met Ady & Pete at Kentish Town to find dinner before the show. Paul was supposed to join us too, but his trains were all screwed up so he had to give ( Read more... )

No-Man are one of those bands that I like, but never really listen to much on record unless J plays it. For ages they didn't tour, but the last few years they've played about a gig a year in the UK and I think J & I have been to all of them. This one was at the Islington Assembly Hall which isn't a venue I've been to before, quite nice inside ( Read more... )

Off into London yesterday for the Pure Reason Revolution gig in the evening, and before that we obviously had to go to the British Museum to look at stuff! ;) We took a slightly different route driving to Cockfosters (via the A120 & A10 rather than straight down the A12), which was a bit more stressful (coz I didn't know what any of the junctions ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went on a day trip to London :) The reason for the trip was the Porcupine Tree concert in the evening, but obviously we came into London earlier so we could go to the British Museum! ;) On the drive in we listened to an In Our Time about the Oracle at Delphi, which was interesting. They covered some basic Greek mythology (noteworthy ( Read more... )

We had a very enjoyable yet busy weekend - my parents were visiting, so we had many meals out & visits to places. Even tho the weather didn't quite co-operate, we still managed to avoid the actual rain while we were out ( Read more... )

We were off to London yesterday evening for a Pure Reason Revolution concert, so decided to head in earlier for a museum trip in the afternoon, to make a bit of a day of it :) I'm sure you'll be unsurprised to hear that the stuff we were looking at was Egyptian ;) But instead of going to the British Museum again (as we'll be there in about 10 ( Read more... )

We were off out in London again yesterday for a day out including culture and death metal ( Read more... )

Last night we headed off up to Norwich, with Jonathan, for an iLiKETRAiNS gig. Last time we saw them play it was in Colchester Arts Centre, this time Norwich Arts Centre, both of which are converted churches - which seems kinda appropriate for iLiKETRAiNS somehow. NAC had some kind of art installation in the cafe/bar bit - video screens playing ( Read more... )

It's been a month since I updated this & I'm not really sure I can remember everything that's happened. Which is why I should try & update more often, but somehow it's not been working out like that ( Read more... )

I can't actually remember much of what happened last week. Some Civ (started on Adventure 8), some coding (my stats script now copes with spectators & does a list of awards people've won), some Quake4 (though not as much as all that, been giving it a bit of a break).

Thursday night, peagles arrived, complete with PC (including water-cooling whatnot and ( Read more... )