Music

Monkey in the Wrench

Posted on by thehay

Hola, wee while since my last post!

Been a busy few months! Glasgow, Edinburgh, T in the Park!

Had a wee jaunt to Glasgow to see the awesome Belle & Sebastian at the SSE Hydro. See some photos here.  The gig was awesome and was the first one I’ve ever been to at the Hydro. Not a bad venue!

The next ‘wee jaunt’ was to Edinburgh to see the Foo Fighters! Except there were no Foo Fighters, Arg! Gig was cancelled due to Dave Grohl’s leg knack. Quite disappointed as myself and wife were really looking forward to it.

We decided that as we had already booked trains, hotel and time off work to head down anyway for a mini break and see some sights. Most of the sights we saw were the inside of restaurants and pubs but we did also fit in a trip to the really cool botanic gardens.

While having dinner at the awesome Restaurant Mark Greenway on Tuesday night we met literary legend Ian Ranking, who was sitting at the next table. Had a brief chat with him, he seemed like a genuinely nice guy and was happy talking to us till his dinner guests arrived. I am a massive fan of his Rebus books and my wife said she’s not sure when she’s seen me that excited!

Saw a very large ‘Corpse Flower’ at the Botanic Gardens, was pretty neat!

Some photos of the trip on Flickr!

And finally a few weeks ago we were at T in the Park. It’s been a few years since I’ve been (2009) and the wife had never been before. We had an ace time, saw some cracking bands including War on Drugs, Kasabian, Marina and the Diamonds, The Vaccines, The LIbertines, Idlewild and Noel Gallagher. We gave the camping a miss though and stayed at a caravan park in Scone. So still technically camping but not Proper Festival Camping. Was nice to be at a festival and be feeling fresh in the morning though!

Not sure about the new festival site at Strathalan. I think they will need to alter the layout a bit as there was a pretty bad bottleneck around the King Tuts Tent and by all accounts getting a bus at the end of the day was apparently a nightmare. Glad we had the car with us, our car park experience was thankfully ok. Well, apart from taking about 10 minutes to find the car on the Friday night hah.

T in the Park Photos here!

Walks in the sun and terrible Wi-fi

Posted on by thehay

Ahoy!

Yes another post already! Have changed the Worpdress Theme of the blog about 5 times while I was bored earlier and waiting for Arty Designer Wife to finish some work she was doing. Alas she did not finish and I was dispatched into the Karlsruhe night to fetch pizza! It’s quite a nice place to walk around in so I wasn’t too gutted! I have taken a fair few photos and have attempted to upload them to Flickr but the basic free hotel Wi-Fi does not seem to want to allow my phone to do this. Don’t fancy paying the 6 euros for the ‘Premium’ Wi-Fi either so I will upload when I hit some better internet. Hopefully tomorrow when we move on to Nuremberg after what it seems will be an Epic Series of Train Journey’s due to a Deutsch Bahn train drivers strike.

Photo above is from when we went for a wander around town yesterday. There’s a nice park called Schlosspark and it was PACKED with folk. It seemed like everyone packed in their work for the afternoon and went outside when the temperature hit 20 degrees. I was chuffed that the first part of the training courses I am here on finished mid afternoon yesterday, so I got to enjoy the sun wife with Arty Designer Wife.

Anyway here’s a nice song from the new Go! Team album. Been listening to it a lot lately and it’s pretty good. A few other musicy of note I’m liking at the moment are Seasick Steve’s new album and a few tunes from my T in the Park playlist I’ve go on the go on Spotify. Playlist here: T in The Park