It was a lovely summer to escape to the Shropshire Hills. I haven't been up for a few weeks, what with Xmas and all. But I'll be back. . it was one of the highlights of the year.
What else did I enjoy in 2008? I've had a couple of trips to London to see Rock & Roll originals. That was fun, as always. It's been a good year for my fifties fetish. Lots of shows including two Jerry Lee Lewis and two Chuck Berry. I've written two sets of liner notes for some Elvis CD releases and had a few photos printed in Now Dig This magazine, (the premier tome for cool cats and swinging Daddies, don't you know!).
I've seen lots of other music. I seem to have been to quite a few Jazz clubs this year, and I've seen lots of local music here in Wolverhampton. My faves being the Barrel Of Baddies and the Gallagher Brothers, (no, it's not an Oasis tribute!).
Cara Dillon, fantastic! Keith Foot, the same. King Pleasure And The Biscuit Boys, Mike Sanchez, all splendid nights.
Astronomically I've seen Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, all through the mighty Dobsonian telescope. And I saw the Milky Way from the Avebury Henge.
Megalithic stuff, well, Stonehenge was superb last weekend. Found the Altar 
stone, the bluestones from the Welsh Hills. . I've been to Mitchell's Fold and I'm sure I'll be back in Avebury before the year is out.
Here's swans in Amsterdam last month, in the Red Light area. My only excursion out of this country this year, with is a poor comparison to 2007, it must be said. But I loved it.
I'll never forget watching the goddesses marching up the high street of Glastonbury singing "we walk with the goddess". Can you see Julie?
And the best Monday morning of 2008 has to be seeing the arch drude himself, Julian Cope at Swanborough Tump somewhere in the Vale Of Pewsey. A superb morning. When he did a rant about being a black sheep, you came away thinking you'll never work for anyone or take shit or tow the line and be a corporate wiping rag ever again and hooray and fist punch the air for that heathen rock & roll!
It's also the year two of my friends had children. Oscar in Manchester and Charlotte in Derby. So that's two people in the world that weren't there last year!
I'll never forget watching the goddesses marching up the high street of Glastonbury singing "we walk with the goddess". Can you see Julie?
And the best Monday morning of 2008 has to be seeing the arch drude himself, Julian Cope at Swanborough Tump somewhere in the Vale Of Pewsey. A superb morning. When he did a rant about being a black sheep, you came away thinking you'll never work for anyone or take shit or tow the line and be a corporate wiping rag ever again and hooray and fist punch the air for that heathen rock & roll!
It's also the year two of my friends had children. Oscar in Manchester and Charlotte in Derby. So that's two people in the world that weren't there last year!
What else? lots of piano playing, teaching, no plumbing and no doing much of anything I don't want to.
Yea, it's been good!
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