Simon Munnery at the Cambridge Junction, doing the "Alan Parker Farewell Tour", which was also the first gig I had tickets for that was cancelled by covid. The social distancing thing was fine, the comedy was great and it was just so good to be abck at a real life thing.
The fact that it was an “Alan Parker” gig was also a nice bit of nostalgia as one of the first gigs M and I went to together was Alan Parker at Southampton Uni.
I went to see Robin Ince’s Bad Science Book Club, whilst I am a big fan of RI, the main draw was a chance to hear Alan Moore Speak. Afterwards, he was not only gracious enough to accept that I couldn’t justify purchasing a third copy of “Watchmen” but signed my copy of Robin’s book instead with the inscription shown.
Signed
Starring
He really does know the score, Brian Bolland would be my favourite artist for such a project.
Do: enjoy the support act MushyBees even though you weren’t expecting a support act Don’t: Trip up on your walk to the venue, badly knackering your knee Do: Remember to take biscuits Don’t: Discover after 41 years of clear diction, that you develop a stutter when shouting out “an atrocity” as part of a punchline Do: Be slightly surprised how much James looks like the guy from “Lost” Don’t: Be amazed that Michael doesn’t punch anyone Do: Remember to drink lots, it gets very hot in a dungeon Don’t: be quite so excited about winning a second hand lightsabre Do: Go - It’s great fun in a convivial atmosphere surrounded by a friendly crowd All in all a fab afternoon out and Many thanks to Michael and James for putting it on P.
Just now waiting for my train home. Thoroughly enjoyed Mark Watson’s warm up show (given the weather warm up is an understatement) it was fab and one of the most accomplished warm ups I’ve seen.
I particularly liked the low key start. As we filtered in he was satting (cool new word) at his laptop quietly typing a commentary.
Once started properly he has an endearing stage presence and basically meandered around such topics as mortality, fatherhood and telling people off for an extremely funny 60 odd minutes.
Morning
This is a stripped down, posted from my phone entry, so excuse boy typos please.
Last night was a Half Man Half Biscuit gig at the junction, Cambridge. If you don’t know who HMHB are, then in some ways I am envious, as there’s a wonderful discovery process to be under taken, simply go to hmhb.co.uk and purchase the back catalogue. Of course If you don’t know who HMHB are you’ve also wasted a lot of time when you could have been listening to them.
