Chastity Brown

 played the Green Note tonight

 (and I was rather chuffed with this mid-concert portrait of her, so I added this one too)

Ruth Theodore opened up for her 

(and just to keep things even here is a mid-concert portrait of her too.) 

Having a fun evening

with the Parkin brothers at the Harrison, listening to the Brazilian Roda jam session ft. Choro Alvorada 

and while they were on a break I was allowed to take a peek into the basement at the Harrison and listen to a few songs by the Assembly Line. 

A Balkan night

 with Mr. Morski from Bulgaria 

 and The Raka Balkan Band

from all over the place, but there were so many of them on stage I can't post them all here, so you will have to find my other photos elsewhere... 

Back at the Green Note

with Rebecca Hollweg

and Mean Mary. 

Another Woodburner night in the wonderful Dalston Eastern Curve Gardens

 with Li Alba

 Max Baillie

 and his partner in crime

and the smiling faces of Choro Alvorada.

Dolls

 at Rough Trade

 East

The Breaks

and 

Ed Strong at Acklam Village.

The only one from

 The Bloom to show up, but luckily he could play us a few tunes on his own 

(imagine if only the triangle guy showed up)

Jimmy Regal managed to bring along his Royals (but I'll only show him here)

 And even though they were Drunk On Tuesday

at least they all managed to get down to Acklam by Saturday.

(But of course the afternoon just wouldn't happen without Wills)

Support

 continues 15 months on. 

Kris's dad

is a rock photographer and Kris is a musician, my dad used to be a musician (before he went into his 'and now for something completely different' phase) and I'm a photographer... So now I took a photo of Kris I am waiting for Bob to take a photo of Al.

Flame Proof Moth

or Moth as he is known to his closest friends 

opened up for Titus Andronicus and his friends at the St. Pancras Old Church

Patrick Stickles

doing a solo Titus Andronicus tour of the UK & Ireland. I caught him at my local Rough Trade and we all got put on the guest list for his sold out shows at St. Pancreas Old Church (Yey!)

In search of Winnie the Pooh

in Ashdown forest. 

Driving down

a country lane in Sussex. 

Sitting on the shore

waiting for the sea

to rust away the chains.

The woodburner at Dalston Curve Garden

was started by Michael Sebastian, his pink guitar and many loops

continued by James Riley

and brought to an end by Gnawa Blues All Stars

who got the people up on their feet and dancing. 

After seeing

 The Darts

 Plain Sails

and North Parade at the Monarch

I came back in time to listen to the Mangrove Steel band practice for the carnival. 

With a little help from my concert going friends

 I discovered a new music venue, the spiritual bar where I saw Morten Lava

 Izzie Yardley (for the second time this week)

 Simeon (who I saw once before (I think it was round the corner from here, at The Monarch))

and in the end there was an open mic for anyone to come up and play some music, do some spoken word, recite poetry or do some comedy and this guy came up and played a few songs for us, unfortunately I don't know his name).

Met some friends at the Monarch

 and we saw (and listened to obvs.) Matt Maynard

 Goodies (not The Goodies from the telly, but this is just their drummer of the photo)

and Khatroum - only showing you the singer/guitarist on this blog (at least I hope I got them all right)

It was the 14th of the month again

 and we walked, silently, down Ladbroke Grove, into the late summer silent evening

 and afterwards I went to the Monarch to set my mind free and listen to some Moon Balloon (I chose to show you the bass player of the band, because I feel whimsical today and because I can)

 and the Beach for Tiger (the drummer, for reasons why him and not anyone else from the band, see above)

and Voksal (need I explain?)