Very excited with today's discovery: The Musical Times website includes a concert listing and O what a tempting bunch of concerts are flying about at the moment!

I've also been looking forward to the London Musicians' Collective experimental music festival, but it's this week and I've just discovered that the concert I really really wanted to go to - the one with John Tilbury - is on Saturday, when we'll be in Chester. Ever so disappointing, but I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled to see if he's doing anything else in the near future. I've also just discovered that it's sold out too (like the rest of the festival), which is fabulous to see - at last I'm living in a cultured city!

Saturday is also the 400th anniversary of the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot and the capture of Guy Fawkes. I'm hoping that Chester will be putting on a bit of a show. Sad not to be in London for it, but I have heard that apparently the government is going to be trying to play it down a bit, what with its connections to terrorism and so forth (although I'd have thought it a good thing - celebrating a terrorist act which was found out and stopped before it happened... but then I guess this is yet more proof that I don't think like Tony Blair... which is probably a good thing. hmm) - no doubt they're a bit concerned about large numbers of people gathering in one place to watch things go boom as well. Concern for safety I guess is a good thing...

It was brought home to me yet again tonight that I really need a new computer - my OS is too old to run podcasting software. Pretty much everything wants Windows XP and my poor little ME-machine just can't cut it. Poor struggling dear. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet and start investigating prices properly. There there dear - you'll be alright (*tucks computer up in a warm and cosy box with a stuffed rabbit*).

# posted by minim @ 10:58 PM