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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): March 2013
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Tuesday, 19 March 2013. Neil Finn and Paul Kelly - Watching Sydney from London. I have spent many years going to concerts and weirdly taking copious notes. It started when I noted down the set list for fans around the globe who obsessively wanted to know what they missed, and then I couldn’t help myself in adding thoughts and observations. That led to my rambling play-by-play accounts that I later put on my website. I may ...
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): Sensational Butterflies at the Natural History Museum
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Monday, 15 September 2014. Sensational Butterflies at the Natural History Museum. Some of you, like me, may have heard of the National History Museum’s annual. Sensational Butterflies exhibition and thought little of it, dismissing it as something for the kids. That sounded like a guaranteed smile. I decided to give it a try one warm summer’s day. If you looked up, they were dangling from netting on the high ceiling, sever...
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): February 2013
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Wednesday, 6 February 2013. Elsie Cat (Khanate Miss Moneypenny) - Tribute to a Lost Friend. The post below was written several months ago when the pain was raw. I felt that I needed to announce Elsie's loss to those who are close to me, who knew that Elsie was a dear friend. Much needed job after I had been out of work for months. The darkest of times, and my heart leapt a bit as I walked home knowing that soon I’d b...
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): September 2014
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Monday, 15 September 2014. Sensational Butterflies at the Natural History Museum. Some of you, like me, may have heard of the National History Museum’s annual. Sensational Butterflies exhibition and thought little of it, dismissing it as something for the kids. That sounded like a guaranteed smile. I decided to give it a try one warm summer’s day. If you looked up, they were dangling from netting on the high ceiling, sever...
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): April 2012
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Monday, 9 April 2012. The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt. A few weeks ago, en route to an interview, I came across a giant egg sitting on a base outside the National Gallery. I obviously couldn’t be late for my interview, but it would have killed me to run past without pausing to inspect it. So I took a quick photo of the first egg I saw in the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt before I was entirely aware of it. Fabergé, had 210 differently and ...
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): November 2010
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Thursday, 11 November 2010. Electric Gig by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. I had the absolute joy of experiencing an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark concert on Sunday (7 November 2010) at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, something the 16-year-old me. History of Modern Part I. Bassist Andy McCluskey to remark upon it, saying to Paul that something worrying was happening in that it was a London crowd and they even lik...
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): March 2014
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Monday, 3 March 2014. How My Heart Broke Watching Channel 4's First Dates - Thoughts on Stammering. I recently accidentally saw part of a show that is not the sort I would ever seek to watch, but which I felt surprisingly moved by, principally because of the experience of one person in it. The show has left me thinking about social issues for a few days,. There I saw the sort of thing you might expect: a woefully TOWIE.
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Talk About Last Night...: Welcome!
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Talk About Last Night. Talk about music, particularly based around comments on the website "About Last Night." or its content, at http:/ www.aboutlastnight.org.uk/. Saturday, 21 February 2009. Welcome to Talk About Last Night. This will be a quiet blog that has principally been set up to replace the Guest Book for my website, About Last Night. But otherwise, it's a forum for you visitors to my website to add comments about what you read or to talk about any related music thoughts you have. Have fun!
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): July 2011
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Sunday, 17 July 2011. PaJaMa Club at The Borderline – Saturday, 16 July. Last night was the premier UK gig of Neil Finn’s new project, PaJaMa Club, which you. From a Friend to a Friend. Listen on http:/ www.reverbnation.com/pajamaclub. As frankly it initially did little for me, particularly with its minimalist vocals and wailing guitar effects. Upon arrival in Soho, my friend agreed that the music was a bit experimenta...
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of....): December 2011
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Brain Tracings (Saw This and Thought of.). Following trails of mental breadcrumbs. Monday, 26 December 2011. Art and Sparkle in Piccadilly. On this day, I was headed for the Criterion theatre in Piccadilly Circus as I had an extremely. Not focusing on the impending doom. Men dressed as Batman and Charlie Chaplin, and someone with comical repartee on a tall unicycle in front of the National Gallery. I also snapped the famous Christmas tree from Oslo, a warming sight but somewhat muted (although muted ...