Creative Accounting #438

Pierce Brosnan (A Long Way Down) = David Bowie / voice X accent

ABC at Theatre Royal Drury Lane 30/3/14

ABC
Anne Dudley
South Bank Symphonia

1 When smokey sings
2 Ten degrees below zero
3 Viva Love
4 The night you murdered love
5 One better world (Hacienda)
6 Ocean Blue
7 How to be a millionaire
8 Be Near Ne

9 LEXICON OF LOVE
4ever 2gether *

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Writing some of Littlewood chapter of When Sparks Fly

Getting back to Simple Pleasures part 4

Finishing A Long Way Down late at night

Sunday's Happiness Experiment entry

Chat & stroll in Avenue House Park with N

Last Supper with Meabh & Rob before they return to Ireland

Reading A Long Way Down in the setting sun near the canal at Maida Vale

Creative Accounting #241 - comic city writers

A Long Way Down (2014)

Nick Hornby / London = Roddy Doyle / Dublin

The Commitments (1991)

Creative Accounting #554

Nick Cave = Ian Curtis(Joy Division) + Gil Scott Heron(Blues)

(on watching 20,000 Days on Earth)

Today's Happiness Experiment - That's my family, Gee

Introducing The Godfather to N

Judging C4 Researcher Scheme pitches including Wishful Linking

Listening to Bowie radio doc by Adam Buxton and giggling on the tube

Richard Hamilton - Tate Modern - opening

Just What Is It... 1956
"Tabular as well as pictorial"

Paint and collage of Pop Stuff

Michael Horovitz

Hannah Höch - Whitechapel Gallery

Fused half faces L and R
Fused jaw/lower face
Use a hole punch for perfect coloured circles
Collaged signature
Attractive palettes

Creative Accounting #725

Stevie Winwood/voice = Peter Gabriel/voice

Creative Accounting #725

Benedict Cumberbatch / Star Trek Into Darkness = Paul Dano / 12 Years a Slave

Creative Accounting #724 - Piano

inspired by Satie - Gymnopedie No.1

right hand = black lines
left hand = colour

Backburner - Creative Thinking

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

— Virginia Woolf

YHEE

Friday night dinner at Clive & Jeanie's including cholla

Researching YouTube

Handing back session with Mark Atkin

YHEE End of sabbatical

Clouds over allotments against azure sky as I left for lunch at Rugoletta with U

Watching Star Trek Into Darkness with D, my first Trek in eons

Finishing When Sparks Fly proposal complete with pics to round off sabbatical

Saturday's HEE

Brushing shoulders with Chris Ashton, David Strettle, Steve Borthwick, Chris Wyles, Neil de Kock, Alex Goode, Schalk Britts, Alistair Hargreaves (The Viking), Michael Tagicakibau at Saracens in Hendon with N (thanks to Syd)

Seeing The Wolf of Wall Street for the second time on the big screen at Holloway Odeon with U & Leafy

Sitting chatting with N outside Sarries stadium while waiting for Syd

THEE

Reading about the Beat Hotel in St Mary Magdalene churchyard, Holloway at sundown

Chatting at Kipferl with Patrick Uden

Watching Dallas Buyers Club with U and N

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Reading back my blog post below on my last visit to Howth

The Elvis and busker stories in 'Springsteen & I'

Apple strudel from Parkway opposite the Hippodrome

YHEE

The yellow winter light at Sandycove for (3rd) visit to Martello Tower and Forty Foot

Steve Lock showing me his FAC51 Hacienda card

Catching up with John Had at Bewley's Hotel

Tuesday's Happiness Experiment entry

14.i.14

Working in the National Library of Ireland (like Leopold Bloom)

The Stag's Head, Dame Court with Elisabeth & Des, Sean & Orla

Checking out the set of 'Fair City' at RTE campus, Donnybrook

YHEE - Dublin, fair city

Views from the plane - luminous orange windsock, Godsky, clouds above sea, coast North of Dublin illuminated by low winter afternoon sun

Reading Ulysses on Sandymount Strand on my phone (Stephen in Sandymount bit near beginning)

Dinner & chat in Dublin with Colm from RTE - Mexican and pub around Dame St

YHEE home & family

Watching two brothers doing football training at Avenue House

Talking about history (mainly WW1) with D and looking at pictures

D's jokes when we were watching August: Osage County en famille "#team barbara"

Creative Accounting #410

Otis Redding = Bobby Womack = John Newman

Creative Accounting #409

Everly Brothers + Buddy Holly = The Beatles

Creative Accounting #408

August: Osage County = Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf + The Big Chill

Robert Elms' New Year's Eve Show 31/12/13

This excellent show was a look-back at the best of the year's tracks and live sessions on Radio London. 

Title: Midnight in Havana
Artist: Louis Vause

Title: Dexys
Artist: She Got a Wiggle

Title: Joss Stone (Live)
Artist: Teardrops

Title: Where Are We Now?
Artist: David Bowie

Title: Get it Right
Artist: Maddy Carty

Title: No Love Dying (Live)
Artist: Gregory Porter

Title: The Ballad of Roza Shanina
Artist: Rae and Christian

Title: Handbags and Gladrags (Live)
Artist: Mike D’Abo

Title: The Best Jewel Thief in the World
Artist: Prefab Sprout

Title: Feel It All (Live)
Artist: KT Tunstall

Title: My Promise
Artist: Earth, Wind and Fire

Title: For a While
Artist: Alice Russell

Title: Calling Out To You (Live)
Artist: Tedeschi Trucks Band

Title: Keep the Faith
Artist: Alexia Coley

Title: Never Stop Building (That old Space Rocket) (Live)
Artist: Danny and the Champions of the World

Title: Brighton Beach
Artist: Rod Stewart

Title: Astral Travelling (Live)
Artist: Lonnie Liston-Smith

Title: Children Go where I Send Thee
Artist: Nick Lowe

Title: Come Rain or Shine
Artist: Paul Carrack

Title: Midnight Rider (Live)
Artist: Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra

Title: She (Live)
Artist: Laura Mvula

Title: Jericho
Artist: Leslie Mendelson

Title: Be Good To Me
Artist: The Delegators

Title: You Can’t Keep Rhythm From A Dancer
Artist: Tortured Soul

Title: Let’s Face the Music and Dance
Artist: Willie Nelson

Title: Maureen
Artist: Casey K

Title: When In Rome Do As The Romans Do (Live)
Artist: Cecile McLorin Salvant

Title: Part of Me
Artist: Tedeschi Trucks Band

My first music of 2014 - a souvenir

Jool's Hootenanny was absolutely superb this year so I'm keeping this as a souvenir:

Jools Holland & his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra

John Newman
Ray Davies
Laura Mvula
Haim
Melanie C
Rudimental
Ella Eyre
Emeli Sande
Charlie Wilson
Lisa Stansfield
The Proclaimers
Ruby Turner
Dawn Penn
Lee Thompson& his Ska Orchestra
The Lumineers

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
That's Not What You Said Last Night

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Carry On
Singer: Lisa Stansfield

HAIM
Don't Save Me

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
There Goes My Baby
Singer: Charlie Wilson

Rudimental
Feel the Love
Singer: John Newman (my first impression of him)

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Jumpin' In The Morning
Singer: Ruby Turner.

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
All Day And All Of The Night
Singer: Ray Davies

Rudimental
Waiting All Night

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
I Wish
Singer: Melanie C

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Green Garden
Singer: Laura Mvula

The Lumineers
Ho Hey

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Love Me Again
Singer: John Newman (highlight of the show)

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Oops Upside Your Head
Singer: Charlie Wilson

The Proclaimers
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Lola
Singer: Ray Davies

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
All Around The World
Singer: Lisa Stansfield

HAIM
Forever

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra and Lee Thompson
You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
Singer: Dawn Penn

Rudimental
Free

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Outstanding
Singer: Charlie Wilson

The Proclaimers
Letter From America

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
See Line Woman
Singer: Laura Mvula

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Never Be The Same Again
Singer: Melanie C

The Lumineers
Classy Girls

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Bangarang 2

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
A Fool For You
Singer: John Newman (blues/Otis)

HAIM
Oh Well

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Wagner's Tannhäuser (Pilgrim's Chorus)

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Skin And Bone
Singer: Ray Davies

Finale: Enjoy Yourself

Creative Accounting #893

John Newman = Otis Redding (but younger and paler)

Laura Mvula = Asa [Asha] (but less French)

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Buying My Generation and other vinyl in Alan's sale

Bumping into Saoirse at Kenwood

Reading John Updike in Kenwood library

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Co-writing with Doug M at British Library

Starting 2nd draft of When Sparks Fly

A steak dinner en famille - in Holloway

Thinking outside Box - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The overflowing pale green river at Castle Coombe

The knight with crossed legs in Castle Coombe church

A contemplative New Year walk from Hillhouse Farm to Dittering(?) drawing the conclusion below

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

A night walk with U from Hillhouse Farm, Box

Watching the beautiful Technicolor of The Sound of Music for the first time with U

Black satin trousers

2014

I will enjoy my day

I will care about others

Terri Hooley 2

On the Belfast fire-bomber who set himself on fire yesterday night - He'll not be doing that again in a hurry.

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Terri Hooley

On the Connemara whiskey I bought him: I'll save that for a special occasion ...like when I'm thirsty.

Blasts from the Pasts

Jon King - Gang of Four

Gary Kemp - Spandau Ballet

Malcolm Garrett

Neville Brody

Pat Kane - Hue & Cry

Martyn Ware - Heaven 17

Oisin Lunny

THEE

Meeting Kathelin Gray at BAFTA, friend of William Burroughs, with roots in Hippy San Francisco

A visit to Hatchards where I bought Robert Harris' novel about the Dreyfus affair

Finishing The One from The Other by Philip Kerr

Beat Fact #21

In the Bond movie You Only Live Twice (in the Osaka Corporation offices) you see a Burroughs calculating machine - invented by William Burroughs' grandfather

Star Spot #560

Christopher Eccleston 29/11/13 outside Kenwood House

Creative Accounting #644 - Aztec Camera

Aztec Camera = The Clash + Wes Montgomery
(according to Roddy Frame)

Aztec Camera = Nick Lowe + Squeeze
(according to Addy Gee)

YHEE

Asking questions to Stephen Frears about Philomena (which made me cry - the film not the questioning)

Roddy Frame's yellow-gold Gibson ES-295 'Scotty Moore' guitar at his performance of High Land, Hard Rain at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Reading The One From The Other on the Sunday tube, a Bernie Gunther historical thriller

THEE

Snoozing on Saturday afternoon in the streaming sunlight

Family gathering to light the fourth candle at Elmgate

Sending off for a new passport at the local post office (soon to disappear)

Star Spots #441

19.xi.13
Will Self (and dog) - Hampstead Heath

20.xi.13
Melvyn Bragg - Festival Hall
Simon Armitage, poet - Festival Hall

21.xi.13
Sebastian Faulks, Burlington Arcade

Blackberry-Picking - for Dylan

Blackberry-Picking

Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for
Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.
We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. 

Seamus Heaney

YHEE - Sturm & Drang

Bringing home Thor and other comics to read with D

The open fire in the upstairs room at the Union Club where I interviewed Mike McCarthy

Getting my haircut on a rainy grey day in Drury Lane

Simple Pleasures

Afros
Beautiful black girls
The British Library central book tower
Japanese women's eyes and faces
Creating things with friends
Libraries
Books (made of paper)
Photography
Creative Thinking

Creative Accounting #713

The Parallax View / The Conversation = 1974 x paranoia

Creative Accounting #712

architectural + long shots + silhouettes = The Parallax View / All The President's Men = Alan J Pakula

Leipzigzag - Saturday's HEE

Researching Allen Ginsberg in gardens of St Elisabeth Krankenhaus, Leipzig (where my dad was born)

Walking through Connewitz and other bits of Leipzig on an autumnal Saturday afternoon

Watching documentary pitches at DocFest Leipzig/Discovery Campus

Leipzig - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry (YHEE)

Reading new James Bond novel (Solo by William Boyd) on hotel bed just after dark in Leipzig with John Martyn accompanying after a long walk (cosy)

Reading about Peter Cook by Schiller monument in low autumnal light among trees in fall colours

Chatting to Belgian writer/director and Chicago director (who kindly gave me his Burroughs film)

THEE

Buying underarmour with N

Writing steadily to Santana - with Ziggy on my neck

Blogging about the writing process

YHEE

D asking question of Monsters University director

Alley people watching with D at Yalla Yalla, Soho

Reading new James Bond (Solo) on the Blanket in the autumn sun with Ziggy

THEE

Family meeting at the Bees' ground off Camrose Ave, the Hive (Barnet FC)

A quick game of backgammon with Delyana

Writing to my birthday soundtrack

Creative Accounting #451 - Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday = Duty + Truth + Happiness

Creative Accounting #450 - Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday / La Dolce Vita = paparazzi + Trevi fountain

Creative Accounting #449

Woody Allen x Bananas x Exercise machine product testing = Charlie Chaplin x Modern Times x Eating machine product testing

Woody Allen

Awareness of mortality

Complete control

Sid Caesar - Mel Brooks

Louise Lasser
Diane Keaton

Office exercise machine (product testing) - Bananas : Feeding machine - Modern Times

Creative Accounting #448

Blue Jasmine = Streetcar named desire + View from the bridge

Creative Accounting #643 - Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood = Ulysses + The Wasteland + The Goons + Monty Python + Joe Orton

Love of words - Love of language

Creative Accounting #642 - The Big Chill

The Return of the Secaucus Seven => the Big Chill

JT (character)  => JT Lancer (character played by character)
running dog (dialogue reference)  => running dog shoes (prop)

Cucumber interview => Video camera interviews
"Karen & Dick" => Karen & Richard
"If it happens, it happens" => same
Earns "obscene" amounts => same

Starspots #644

Portland Place
Quintessentially

Simon Schama
Rachel Johnson
Helena Kennedy
Peter Yorke

YHEE

Exploding Content speaking session at IBC focusing on Top of the Pops - watching John Landis' Thriller video for Michael Jackson

Seeing Mirjam Winkelman for lunch after 30 years of friendship - having our photo taken in the rain

Leisurely dinner on 17th floor of Apollo hotel with wine and cheese

THEE Amsterdam to Zaandam

Long bike ride with Adam Dorrell from Lauriergracht to Zaandam crazy hotel

Adam's flattering assessment of me over birthday lunch at YCanteen at NDSB (that I could change the world in some way for the better)

Run in Rembrandtpark in autumn sunshine

YHEE

Seeing N & D's 1936 Modern Times plaque in the Phoenix cinema centenary timeline when visiting to watch What Maisie Knew with U

Meeting futurologist Mark Stevenson and talking book writing

Having N's friend Alfie visit

Saturday's HEE

Seeing Freud's couch in the Freud Museum

Fish and chips in the rain under a big umbrella (Rock and Sole, Covent Garden)

Reading Agatha Christie (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) and seeing the AC memorial on St Martin's Lane

YHEE

Walking home from White Hart Lane with N (after a victory) in late afternoon summer sun past old church buildings and other architectural treasures

Listening to a radio show about The Waterboys (Mastertapes with Mike Scott and Steve Wickham) while jogging

Watching The Big Chill

Last couple of days' HEE

Thurs 1st Aug Utö

Eating fresh raspberries in the woods with U and N

Eating a cinnamon bun with N on the beach at Storsand, Alö

Cycling the length of Utö with N & U

Fri 2

Early morning cycle to Storsand, Alö

Long (by Swedish standards) swim at Storasand, Utö

Vanilla cream bun in the afternoon after no food all day, under the pines at Storasand

THEE

Glasgow singer (Dave, later John Martyn lookalike) singing outside the pub on Uto

Reading Uncut on the train platform

Jogging along the water and meditating on a swing seat

Tuesday's Happiness Experiment Entry

Perfect meal of Toast Skagen and meatballs, mash and berries with U and N in a red, gold and brown restaurant

Now You See It with N and U

Vasa resurfaced ship with N

Monday's Happiness Experiment Entry

Seeing Alex again, with her laugh

Watching a bird feeding its two children with a cherry, at Nytorget

Walking over the Skinnarvitsberget and along the red fence ridge to the art galleries (where the man in docs leaning back over the skatepark edge photo was)

Sunday's Happiness Experiment Entry

Travelling the 4 of us

Swedish Allotments near Zinkensdamm, Sodermalm

Playing cards with D and U

YHEE

Italian Saturday lunch with Elke & family at Rugoletta

Finding the JJ Cale song Alan played at our wedding (JJ gone to heaven today)

Watching the lighting of the torch at London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony (1st anniversary)

Getting the band back together - Bruce Springsteen at Wembley 15/6/13 setlist

Bruce Springsteen at Wembley setlist 15/6/13: Darkness On The Edge Of Town

1. Land of Hope and Dreams
2. Jackson Cage
3. Radio Nowhere
4. Save My Love
5. Rosalita
6. This Hard Land
7. Lost in the Flood
8. Wrecking Ball
9. Death to My Hometown
10. Hungry Heart

Darkness on the Edge of Town
11. Badlands
12. Adam Raised a Cain
13. Something in the Night
14. Candy’s Room
15. Racing in the Street
16. The Promised Land
17. Factory
18. Streets of Fire
19. Prove it All Night
20. Darkness on the Edge of Town

21. Shackled and Drawn ***
22. Waitin’ On A Sunny Day
23. The Rising
24. Light of Day
25. Pay Me My Money Down
26. Born to Run
27. Bobby Jean
28. Dancing In The Dark
29. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
30. Twist & Shout
31. Thunder Road (solo acoustic)

with Stu, Serge, Martin & Eddie

More

Stoned Immaculate - Rolling Stones set list 6 July 2013, Hyde Park

HYDE PARK, LONDON SETLIST: 6TH JULY 2013

The Rolling Stones returned to Hyde Park, 44 years and 1 day since they played there in 1969. And 4 days after Jason's birthday.

Start Me Up

It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)

Tumbling Dice

All Down The Line (By Request)  *?

Beast Of Burden

Doom And Gloom

Bitch (with Gary Clark Jr)

Paint It Black

Honky Tonk Women

You Got The Silver (with Keith Richards on lead vocals)

Before They Make Me Run (with Keith Richards on lead vocals)

Miss You

Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)

Gimme Shelter

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Sympathy For The Devil

Brown Sugar

ENCORE

You Can’t Always Get What You Want (with the Voce Choir and members of the London Youth Choir) **

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (with Mick Taylor)

The Rolling Stones 50 & Counting touring band:

Mick Jagger

Keith Richards

Charlie Watts

Ronnie Wood

Mick Taylor

Darryl Jones

Chuck Leavell

Bobby Keys

Tim Ries

Bernard Fowler

Lisa Fischer

Matt Clifford

More

YHEE

Seeing Bobby Wellins live with Stan Tracey's band on his native Scotland - with Faith

Getting a special back stage view of a Spiegeltent thanks to Spiegeltentlady

Testing whiskies in the Malt Whisky Club in Leith with Fiona from Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival

THEE Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival carnival in Princes St Gardens in bright summer sun - old school 99 with Gillian

Evening snooze in high Roxburghe room

Chat above Grassmarket with James from Ballyshannon

THEE

Ziggy coming to sleep on the bed in the early morning

Drinking roobios tea with a splash of cherry cordial

Jogging to East Finchley Westminster Cemetery for first look around

THEE

Reading about Ginsberg in garden at dusk with Ziggy

Watching naughty Adam Sandler movie with the Enfants Terribles

Lambs Conduit Street hangout in the sun with Peter & Shelagh

Starspots #288

4/7/13
Michael Gove (restaurant St Peter St)
Simon Mayo (Somethin' Else)
Mark Wallinger

Jamie Oliver (FE@HFR)

19/7/13
Alan Bennett (Primrose Hill, Regent's Park Road)