The other day I was standing at a pelican crossing waiting for the green man.
Across the road from me were two community support officers, on the beat, also waiting to cross the road.
Community support officers always seem to get a hard time from everyone, being ridiculed for not being proper police.
I never really understood the anger aimed at them, until I saw them that day.
Once the traffic died down, these two 'officers' crossed the road despite the fact that the red man was still clearly lit up. Do these two have no respect for rules! Clearly they wont be made into proper police any time soon if they can't even cross the road properly. I mean, how are supporting the community with that lack of respect.
I stood there in quiet shock until the red man's active eco-friendly downstairs neighbour lit up.
I now get that CSOs deserve all the teasing.
Tuesday 16 August 2011
Saturday 6 August 2011
Post Womad Blues Post
This will be the last post I do about Womad.
A new thing this year was that the inside of the Siam tent was beautifully decorated, usually it is just plain.
At night it was even lovelier.
A new thing this year was that the inside of the Siam tent was beautifully decorated, usually it is just plain.
At night it was even lovelier.
Wednesday 3 August 2011
Stalls.
At Womad there were many stalls, some with great names and some without.
These are my favourites.
This (in my opinion) was the best.
I like this one just because it's probably named after The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Whereas this one needed to be more specific about what it actually sold.
I'm assuming from the name that you borrow soup and return it when you're finished.
This one just puzzled me.
And I will end on a pun.
These are my favourites.
This (in my opinion) was the best.
I like this one just because it's probably named after The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Whereas this one needed to be more specific about what it actually sold.
I'm assuming from the name that you borrow soup and return it when you're finished.
This one just puzzled me.
And I will end on a pun.
Tuesday 2 August 2011
WOMAD!
Last weekend I went to Womad. Its a world music festival in Wiltshire and this is the fifth year I've been.
It was brilliant, fun and sunny.
These are my three musical highlights.
1) Brassroots.
They are (as the name suggests) a brass band that play re-imaginings of songs. Very energetic and crowd pleasing. Halfway through their set I realized I've seen them twice before at local venues.
From where I was standing they looked like this...
2) Booker T. Jones
From Booker T and the MGs, he played a load songs for which the MGs were the backing band such as Sam and Dave's 'Hold on, I'm coming' and a song he wrote with Neil Young called Potato Hole. But the best bit was he said "I'm now going to play a song I wrote when I was in high school and recorded with Booker T and the MGs. Green Onions." and the crowds collective whoop as he started playing the riff.
Here is a picture. Booker T is on the left.
3) Gogol Bordello
It was brilliant, fun and sunny.
These are my three musical highlights.
1) Brassroots.
http://www.brassrootsmusic.com/
They are (as the name suggests) a brass band that play re-imaginings of songs. Very energetic and crowd pleasing. Halfway through their set I realized I've seen them twice before at local venues.
From where I was standing they looked like this...
2) Booker T. Jones
http://www.bookert.com/
From Booker T and the MGs, he played a load songs for which the MGs were the backing band such as Sam and Dave's 'Hold on, I'm coming' and a song he wrote with Neil Young called Potato Hole. But the best bit was he said "I'm now going to play a song I wrote when I was in high school and recorded with Booker T and the MGs. Green Onions." and the crowds collective whoop as he started playing the riff.
Here is a picture. Booker T is on the left.
3) Gogol Bordello
http://www.gogolbordello.com/
They played last on the Sunday night and gave the festival a proper send off. Their high energy gypsy punk music went down a storm. I'm really glad I've seen them, I mean how many people can write a decent song that includes quantum mechanics.
This is what I saw.
Womad is still amazing to go to after so long, I don't think I'll ever tire of it.
They played last on the Sunday night and gave the festival a proper send off. Their high energy gypsy punk music went down a storm. I'm really glad I've seen them, I mean how many people can write a decent song that includes quantum mechanics.
This is what I saw.
Womad is still amazing to go to after so long, I don't think I'll ever tire of it.
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