Khalid and Samira

walking away from 2018, heading towards 2019.

Maxillaroxxmas - the Grenfell Tower Christmas fundraiser

 with Lola Aviva

 Loretta Heywood

 Tara Rez

 Segs Ruts 

The Egg and many more...

Michele and Romeo present

  with

 The

 Rosellas

 Ren Harvieu

 and of course Michele

and Romeo Stodart.

Helen McDonald

and the Future Groove at Acklam Village.

LOVE

Live music at the Monarch

 with the The Dream Brothers

 The Factory

 The Point

and Maxx Palmer.

Most evening in Camden end in The Monarch

 and sometimes you can see Amber Peri

 Kenan Kian

and this time they were joined by Silva. 

December Saturday afternoon at Acklam

with Malphino

 Ubuntu Crew

 Tess

and Shywolf.

Bosham

at sunset

This time

 Michele 

invited Ned Roberts 

Benjamin Folke Thomas 

and Catherine Williams to come round and play.

I returned to Acklam after missing out a few weeks

where I listened to (and took a few photos of) Elsa

Vive le Rose

dans le Rough Trade West.

I am slowly getting back into

 going out with my camera, this time it was an acoustic guitar duo at Rough Trade, Jim Ghedi 

and Toby Hay.

(As you see I am slowly working my way up to the noisier ones)

Bollocks to Brexit!

as we say. 

Following the poetry trail

I arrived at the Poetry Pharmacy with William Sieghart (who was also the founder of the National Poetry Day, yey!) and I was prescribed the following poem 

(and hopefully this will help to get me on the road):

What if this road
by Sheenagh Pugh

What if this road, that has held no surprises
these many years, decided not to go
home after all; what if it could turn 
left or right with no more ado 

than a kite-tail? What if its tarry skin

were like a long, supple bolt of cloth,

that is shaken and rolled out, and takes

a new shape from the contours beneath?

And if it chose to lay itself down 

in a new way; around a blind corner, 

across hills you must climb without knowing 

what’s on the other side; who would not hanker 

to be going, at all risks? Who wants to know 

a story’s end, or where a road will go?

My first outing with a camera after my operation...

 and I decided to test the waters locally at an easy event with some spoken word

 sculptures

 paintings

 and more spoken word/music performances. 

A quick listen

to some live music before my operation on Tuesday. 

Another Sunday at Acklam

 this time with Colourshop

 Ed Strong

with their six string bass

Andria Antoniou

and Wills Morgan as our host (as always).

The Room in the Wood

 performing an acoustic set

in the local Rough Trade. 

Not my kind of music

but hey, they were playing on my way to Tate, so, why not, just for a change...

Grace Petrie

sung her protest (and other) songs on a 1930s Dutch barge almost opposite the House of Commons.