Birthday

Happy Birthday to my Dad and Happy Aniversary to Him and my Mum...
:-)

Hears to hanging with Henry

So this years festival experience...

Metallica (great)
Tenacious D (good)
Feeder (good)
Hadouken (pretty good)
Brendon Burns (brilliant)
Robots In Disguise (quite good)
Mindless Self Indulgence (don't I know that track)

Rage Against The Machine (not as good as I was expecting but ended real strong)
Pennywise (loud and fast)
Less than Jake (good)
Queens Of The Stone Age (top stuff)
The Fratellis (nice beat)
Biffy Clyro (er...)
Serj Tankian (bonkers)
Henry Rollins (All hail the mighty H)
Beans On Toast (Glasto kick)

The Killers (sublime)
Bloc Party (really good, how comes I've not listen to this lot before?)
The Raconteurs (quality)
The Ting Tings (bong bong brill)
Sugar Sammy (ouch that's funny)
The Joy Formidable (good must try and remember the name)
Fucked Up (I like it but they might have been The Gaslight Anthem)

Plus a few others, alot of mud and for the first time in our festival history some descent freebies. We got each a free bag, t shirt and a wicked light saber pen which was damn handy when you are tried to find people in the pitch dark.

Darling, Phones and a Festival on two feet

On the flat selling front, its deathly quiet. This is probably not helped by the right cock up Mr Darling, the Chancellor caused by suggesting a freeze on stamp duty (the tax you pay when buying a house) which now means most people are hanging back to see if there will be a freeze.

The estate agent finally rang on Friday to say that there was no news and they hadn't shown the flat in a while. In fact they say they only managed a sell 'a couple of much larger properties' in the last month. very quite, 'had I considered knocking some money off the asking price? say change it to 199,995 down 20k and try it again'. Well that would be in line with around the 12% as quoted by the national press. So I have to decide and they will ring me back this week.

On to happier news its music festival time again and I'm off to the Leeds festival at the weekend acts include

Metallica
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
The Killers
Tenacious D
Slipknot
The Raconteurs
Feeder
Avenged Sevenfold
Manic Street Preachers
The Fratellis
The Enemy
Biffy Clyro
Serj Tankian
Dizzee Rascal
Taking Back Sunday
and Henry Rollins!

topp stuff! and this time a much more mobile event as I won't be on crutches this time and so may even jig around a bit (depending on the beer intake probably!)


and as for phones...well now the rush has died down a bit I was considering getting an iPhone.

Motor Show

I confused alot of people last week by telling them I was going to the London Motor Show at the weekend. I'm not know as a person who likes car i fact when challenged I can probably remember what colour a car is but its about it. It's at least a decade since I've owned a car and that one I left in pieces in Bristol.

In fact I went to see Meatloaf in concert and the free ticket to the motor show came with it. It was very good, the show had loads on drama to it and the man himself is as over the top as you can imagine. Highlights include of course a huge bat of hell with lots of extra guitar and Meatloaf dressing up like he did in the seventies with frilly shirt and long hair to sing Dead Ringer for Love.

Totally OTT and a great thing to see live