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Into Autumn
October 06, 2007

It's October already??? I've just realised that daylight hours are now outnumbered by twilight and darkness. It won't be long before the clocks go back and we're immersed in Winter again.

Other than uploading the Crete shots to Flickr and retrospectively posting a bit about the week away we have been out and about a bit too.

On the Thursday after we got back we went to see Simian Mobile Disco at the Scala. Once more I've been to a gig that is the best one I've been to all year. But, my theory is, the later in the year it gets the more likely it is to be true. Much noise from the front of stage, bass blowing us back a couple of rows and some retina burning lighting. The Scala is the best place I've seen a band in for a while as well. Intimate and in your face... Loved the bands analogue gear being "in the round" on the stage and the pair of them grooving round it tweaking knobs and sliders.

Bill Bailey was great last night at the Riverside Studios. Maybe not as good as he was the last time we saw him but I was still in tears laughing. But watching live comedy is akin to watching live football for me. I need action replays. There are so many bits I want to talk about the next day but I just can't remember them! We laughed until our faces hurt and all I can remember is "I tend to over analyse everything... Or do I"?

This afternoon we caught the matinee performance of Complicite's A Disappearing Number at the Barbican. It was the last night tonight so I won't recommend you go see it. But I'm glad we did! Thanks to Sam tracking down a couple of tickets last week. I won't begin to try and break down the plot here. It wouldn't do it justice anyway. Suffice to say, it is partly based on G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology. Complicite's performances have to be seen to be believed. They are more a choreographed multi-media experience than a play and this was extraordinary, surpassing The Elephant Vanishes even. Congratulations to the whole ensemble, the concentration levels needed to do a two hour performance like that must be immense. I can't wait for the next one.

Been listening to Kate Nash, Patrick Watson and the new Underworld album this week and starting to think what my top 10 albums for 2007 will be, as the end of the year nears us. There are still new Robert Wyatt and Radiohead albums to come yet.

Categories: Music, Art, London, Theatre

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