Jade Bird

at Rough Trade East. 

Record Store Day at Rough Trade West

 with Blick Bassy

 Wonk Unit

 KT Tunstall

 Pete Doherty and The Puta Madres

and Celeste. 

Sister Rosetta's night for women in music Vol. 9

 with Lin Hamami

 Lily Lyons

and Maya McCourt. 

Francesca Lombardo

at Rough Trade East

Always nice to see Ruth Theodore

and this time we got the added bonus of the band and her playing two songs on the keyboards... 

It might have only been (a) March

but you could almost feel the end of May in the air. 

Modern Age London Presents

         Drusila

 Pax Romana

                                                                                                                                    and Calum Lintott.

Death Valley Surfers

a surfer band with a violin. 

Bollocks to Brexit

it's a shambles

a farce

chaos

not to mention 

total and utter havoc. 

Back to Acklam

with Tony Uter

 Diz Watson

and Eddy and the Wild Rice (this is not Eddy, it is one of the wild rice).

A double bill

 at the local Rough Trade with Jamic Cruickshank

 and Andrew Bird

and it was full.

A bunch of great musicians

just having fun.

William the Conqueror

playing at Rough Trade at lunchtime.

Everybody is on the run

some are trying to outrun the bombs and bullets
some are trying to escape the gaping mouths of poverty
some are trying to escape the floods
while others are dragging themselves through the desert

some are trying to run away from the gangster loan sharks
some are trying to run away from tyrant leaders
some are trying to escape their spouses
while others are running away from their parents

some are trying to run away from reality
but most of us just seem to be running away from ourselves.

A night out in Soho

 It seems I need people from Ljubljana to fly over to London to take me out on a night in Soho. First we popped into Ain't nothing but the blues for a bit of blues with the Blues Trio Live

followed by the up and coming (his words, not mine) Tony Hinchcliffe.

Stats

with their energetic singer/guitarist at Rough Trade East 

The Grenfell

 silent walk

 followed by Hardwicke Circus

 Cascade

 Turbulence

and Dangers of Love at The Monarch

A Tuesday night at the Monarch

 with Ryan Burman

 I Am Aquitaine

and Amy Wix

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.

They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. 

(Stephen King)

(I finally got my brain scan back)

Honey Lung

at 

 Rough

 Trade

East

It was nice

to see Hanna and Nick perform again.

Tonight I got invited to Kings Place

where I heard Zoe Konez

and Roxanne de Bastion.

I walked past the neon sign

in the pop-up gallery on Portobello and it took me back to the time I bought my first digital camera and I was taking photos at Trnfest every night for a bit over a month (I would do it for longer, but that was as long as the festival lasted) and then posting the photos on my first blog (I say my first blog, but I was running it with my friend Damjan - if you want to see it check it here 24 hour Trnfest people  - see what we did there?). The blog only ran for that month, but that's because the next year we started cooperating with the festival and we did wonderful and weird stuff with them...

Johnny and the Baptists

made me laugh and the Vault Festival made me think: Why didn't I know about this sooner and how come I'm not their photographer while in London (that might have helped me turn my ordeal into something that makes sense).  

Strolling through Tate Modern on a Friday afternoon

 sketching a painting in the Magic Realism - Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33 exhibition

 visiting the artist rooms of Jenny Holzer

and in the general lack of photographing performances, visiting the Performer and Participant exhibition