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Apr13
A Titanic enthusiast from Kent has taken on the role of project adviser to a team that hopes to raise the vessel.
Bob Pryor, from Ramsgate, who founded the Titanic Society of Great Britain in the 1980s, has been appointed by marine surveyors Seawise.
2006 :: Comment / reply
Jul6
Just finished Underground London, and enjoyed it very much... Haven't reported in what I've been reading since I griped about The Moonstone I don't think, I really dragged through that one but enjoyed it by the end. Hmm, I'm a great reviewer of books. Underground London is a Louis Theroux style stalk through the lives of people who work or play underground in London. Not sure why I got this book, as I remember it looked at my Amazon basket one day and there it was, maybe I was drunk. It covers all of London history from Roman times to the current cross rail project and adventures with the Subterranea Brittanica lot, and it is a jolly interesting non-fiction read. Before that I think I read a Cadfael book, One Corpse Too Many, which took a while to get into, but once I'd got into his style I enjoyed too. It's not overly twisty and turny or gripping, there are huge blaring signs saying "this is what's going to happen next", it's a Sunday Evening TV kind of a book, but not bad. It was a car boot sale bargain, and I might look out for more. Also from the same boot fair I got Bill Bryson Down Under, looks good but I have to wait for Clare to finish it. Next in line for me is Dublin, which I'm a bit intimdated by. I enjoyed London by the same author, but I know more about the history of London. It's a big slab of a book and if it follows the same formula it will be a dramatised history of the city, following a family from Roman times up to the present day.
That's the only good thing about our daily commute, catching up with reading. Today's journey in was rubbish, had some idiot couple sat on our table chattering all the way in. If it was you, please don't sit near me again. Really, some time soon, I will make some "quiet carriage" signs.
Off to Oxford this weekend, so checking out www.oxfordtube.com, supposedly a luxury coach service between London and Oxford. A lot cheaper than the train will be at rush hour I'd think, and though it takes a bit longer it's not a problem as we're leaving early and have plenty of time.
Full On Food is back on TV tonight, SMART. They seem to have changed the presenters since the first series, hope it's as good.
2005 :: Comment / reply
Apr22
Well the gig was fantastic I'm very glad to report, a homecoming to Dingwalls (now called Lock 17 for some reason), the launchplace of their first album, was somehow appropriate. The place was packed, perhaps partly because of an enormous free guestlist, but there must have been a generous sprinkling of paying punters (like us) too.
A shamelss attempt was made to return to glories past, with Vessel coming onto the stage in silhouette form first of all, but without the fully elaborate painting-himself-real thing. And the stand-in spectral roadies ripped the paper too. They were reasonable lookalikes, but we weren't all fooled, particularly not Iceman who was in the crowd. The balloon animals were a lovely touch, and the instructive illustrations too.
The set was a mix of very new and very old, almost none from the difficult second album "Shiney on the Inside", but a good few early rarities, including my personal favourite "Cookie", also "Slip Into Me", "Life on a Crescent", "Ballroom" and more. The new material all sounds good, get the new album from Outstanding Records, I keep leaving my copy places, so am not entirely familiar with it yet. It's got "Gentleman Jim" on it though, which is ace.
From comments on the Devant yahoo group it seems there were a few more songs on the setlist which weren't played, I'm kind of glad they didn't encore with "Ginger" though. GRATE though it is, that song signifies a point when they were written off by the mainstream music press to me, which is sad. What with all things Simon Pegg (OK, just Sean of the Dead doing well at the moment, hopefully someone will find a way of re-releasing "Asylum", the comedy series that featured the songs of the Devants from about 1996. I heard on the David Walliams website that he was in it too, don't remember him, only Simon and Jessica really.
Anyway, see my pictures of the whole band in action or just Professor Rimschott and here's a pic from Ice-man's phone more later, don't want to spoil you.
Blimey, I only mentioned Quentin Hann here once and suddenly I'm getting loads of traffic, is he the new Keira Knightly? BBC says Hann's ready to meet Hicks in the ring! Saw Steve Davis ALMOST get the highest break of the Embassy World Championships earlier. But not quite, he positioned himself badly on the last pink, did a fantastic pot and left a long but OK black. And missed it, only 127.
