The Long Hot Pride Weekend

Pulp was brilliant at Wireless on Sunday - and although the miserable cunts didn't appreciate Ms Grace Jones she rocked the place, jumping down several metre stage to sing to fans, wearing almost nothing and looking amazing, and finale was hula hooping during the WHOLE of Slave to the Rhythm. A classy professional act, I was won over. Jarvis and co were amazingly good, although again the 'fan' crowd that knew all the old hits went cold on Sunrise and a wonderful version of This is Hardcore. Fuck em, was a brilliant set, shame no Lipgloss or OU/Space/Acrylic Afternoons like at Primavera.

Metronomy was good, and Cut Copy was only OK apart from Hearts on Fire  - I made the right decision at Coachella I think...all bands seem to be playing their biggest hit second to last apart from Pulp - odd since the sets ended with stuff I didn't know...Roky Erickson didn't though and ended on You're Gonna Miss Me - I missed all of his set apart from that so I was happy. Annoyingly due to the LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG queues to get in - X-ray machines? Eh? I missed Yuck - in previous years you can basically skip right in early on, took 20-30 mins and I got to Yuck's set about 20 seconds from the end. I was NOT happy. We (did/didn't) miss the Hives, and Naked  and the Famous and a few other unknown blindie acts played in the background. TV on the Radio was OK, although still don't get them...love several of their band though - CUTE. :-D Horrors DROOOOOOOOOOOONED on, less poppy/Krautrock and more of that doomrock in a cave sound...very now, but I think only really works with light stuff like girl groups for the contrast. Scott loved them though.

Bumped into Scott tga , Stefan, Martin Stash Da Rola, Paul Ape, and Richie Brown and Andy Dunproofin...the latter two more of later...


Ms Grace Doing the Hula...



Pride march on Sat was fun went in my kilt and Pub step shirt - took quite a few pictures test running my new Nikon D7000 which I'll post here shortly - but here's a pride video of the Terrence Higgins trust brass band and their reaction to the Christian Fundy anti-pride protesters (the yellow signs at the back) - yes it's to have a party in front of them!

I spoke to a few nice bears but later at the KA was enlivened from it's usual 'oh not not him' or '*sigh* no-one I know here ,and no-one looks friendly' state by appearance of 4 old friends from Aberdeen and London, from 'Bastard' days. They took me away from pouting bears and I got drunk with people I cared about. I needed that. Thanks Richie and Andy - we went to the Cro Bar (in my leather and kilt I fit right in!) and then onto Princess Louise - it was Superdan's leaving London drinks (seems a spate of that!) and so met up with Steve Supercollider, Ian Fondue, Dan, loads of his friends, Bryony (sp)? who was a Bastard regular too, and Nick Foster and Will...it basically became a Bastard reunion!

Ditto seeing Kirk, a tonic and we ended up at the amazing 60s bar til 3am on Hanway Street - sadly under threat by Primark, yeah we need more cheap clothes and to destroy the reason to wear them, don't we? (and there is a fucking Primark down the road)...bars have been there since the 50s I think , proper late night basement clubs, mostly Spanish. Really the heart is being ripped out of north of Soho!





Anyway got home and celebrated our 15th year of coming out by opening my bottle of good champagne I was saving for a special occasion since the mid 2000s - it seemed time to drink it!

Today (well yesterday now) I went down to Ham Lands and chilled out......and a few other things I can't mention here cos I don't want to incriminate myself ;-) It was hot yet stormy looking, with bits of sunshine

I shot this on my little Lumix:

The Long Hot Pride Weekend

Pulp was brilliant at Wireless on Sunday - and although the miserable cunts didn't appreciate Ms Grace Jones she rocked the place, jumping down several metre stage to sing to fans, wearing almost nothing and looking amazing, and finale was hula hooping during the WHOLE of Slave to the Rhythm. A classy professional act, I was won over. Jarvis and co were amazingly good, although again the 'fan' crowd that knew all the old hits went cold on Sunrise and a wonderful version of This is Hardcore. Fuck em, was a brilliant set, shame no Lipgloss or OU/Space/Acrylic Afternoons like at Primavera.

Metronomy was good, and Cut Copy was only OK apart from Hearts on Fire  - I made the right decision at Coachella I think...all bands seem to be playing their biggest hit second to last apart from Pulp - odd since the sets ended with stuff I didn't know...Roky Erickson didn't though and ended on You're Gonna Miss Me - I missed all of his set apart from that so I was happy. Annoyingly due to the LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG queues to get in - X-ray machines? Eh? I missed Yuck - in previous years you can basically skip right in early on, took 20-30 mins and I got to Yuck's set about 20 seconds from the end. I was NOT happy. We (did/didn't) miss the Hives, and Naked  and the Famous and a few other unknown blindie acts played in the background. TV on the Radio was OK, although still don't get them...love several of their band though - CUTE. :-D Horrors DROOOOOOOOOOOONED on, less poppy/Krautrock and more of that doomrock in a cave sound...very now, but I think only really works with light stuff like girl groups for the contrast. Scott loved them though.

Bumped into Scott tga , Stefan, Martin Stash Da Rola, Paul Ape, and Richie Brown and Andy Dunproofin...the latter two more of later...


Ms Grace Doing the Hula...



Pride march on Sat was fun went in my kilt and Pub step shirt - took quite a few pictures test running my new Nikon D7000 which I'll post here shortly - but here's a pride video of the Terrence Higgins trust brass band and their reaction to the Christian Fundy anti-pride protesters (the yellow signs at the back) - yes it's to have a party in front of them!

I spoke to a few nice bears but later at the KA was enlivened from it's usual 'oh not not him' or '*sigh* no-one I know here ,and no-one looks friendly' state by appearance of 4 old friends from Aberdeen and London, from 'Bastard' days. They took me away from pouting bears and I got drunk with people I cared about. I needed that. Thanks Richie and Andy - we went to the Cro Bar (in my leather and kilt I fit right in!) and then onto Princess Louise - it was Superdan's leaving London drinks (seems a spate of that!) and so met up with Steve Supercollider, Ian Fondue, Dan, loads of his friends, Bryony (sp)? who was a Bastard regular too, and Nick Foster and Will...it basically became a Bastard reunion!

Ditto seeing Kirk, a tonic and we ended up at the amazing 60s bar til 3am on Hanway Street - sadly under threat by Primark, yeah we need more cheap clothes and to destroy the reason to wear them, don't we? (and there is a fucking Primark down the road)...bars have been there since the 50s I think , proper late night basement clubs, mostly Spanish. Really the heart is being ripped out of north of Soho!





Anyway got home and celebrated our 15th year of coming out by opening my bottle of good champagne I was saving for a special occasion since the mid 2000s - it seemed time to drink it!

Today (well yesterday now) I went down to Ham Lands and chilled out......and a few other things I can't mention here cos I don't want to incriminate myself ;-) It was hot yet stormy looking, with bits of sunshine

I shot this on my little Lumix:

London Pride 2011

My London Pride Pics are up:




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And this picture says a lot about the anti-Pride Christian Fundie protesters - ignored and in the background:

London Pride 2011

My London Pride Pics are up:




( Read more... )

And this picture says a lot about the anti-Pride Christian Fundie protesters - ignored and in the background:

Eye twitch redux

So it turns out it might not be stress or caffeine after all - I have low Calcium and Vitamin D levels in my blood.

So they whole 'let's drop milk and coffee to fix it' might actually have been the worse thing to do...also the general advice to reduce fat means you tend to avoid dairy (I'd thought I'd eat enough cheese to knock over a horse, though, and do) and don't drink milk means lower Calcium levels I guess, or I don't metabolise it as well....

Vitamin D I do know about, or guessed - hence more walking in the sunshine. So it's calcium tablets tomorrow...err, yum.

Eye twitch redux

So it turns out it might not be stress or caffeine after all - I have low Calcium and Vitamin D levels in my blood.

So they whole 'let's drop milk and coffee to fix it' might actually have been the worse thing to do...also the general advice to reduce fat means you tend to avoid dairy (I'd thought I'd eat enough cheese to knock over a horse, though, and do) and don't drink milk means lower Calcium levels I guess, or I don't metabolise it as well....

Vitamin D I do know about, or guessed - hence more walking in the sunshine. So it's calcium tablets tomorrow...err, yum.