Let’s av a bit of a catch-up, shall we?

Phew! Time flies innit. Here’s a quick update on the last few weeks.

Week 13 – For this week, I was part of the gig playing in a quartet at an impromptu pop-up restaurant/house party. This does count in my rules, but so as I don’t have to put myself through a critique of my performance, doesn’t merit a review.

Week 14 – Troubadour Rose at the Windmill; a blue-grass five-piece with fiddle, walking bass and pretty vocalist in tow, paying big homage to country singers with their ‘tears like rain’ and gee-up hoedown to finish. Randomly, ended up talking too much about third wave feminism and the hipster politics of the gay scene with an old friend to soak up too much of what was going on, sadly, but maybe that says more about the band than me…

Week 15 – the wonderful LCD Soundsystem at Brixton Academy…

Didn’t realise the extent to which James Murphy speaks to the 30-something checked shirt wearing white male until I went to see LCD Soundsystem live.  A lot of people there were out to prove they weren’t ‘loosing their edge’, which made for plentiful fun and a lot of sweaty male moshing. Mixing the old tunes with the new, the band only had to let out a few seconds of each track before the crowd started screaming and we all felt like one big happy house party. Awww. They saved the anthemic ‘New York I love you’ for their encore, which Murphy crooned tenderly, yet with such irony and in between swigs of champagne and whiskey, the way that only he does best.