Tonight my wife and I are going to a gig for the first time in a long time. My days of standing up in crowded venues for hours at a time are well and truly over – so that would seem to rule out most gigs these days. I rang the LCR in Norwich, and asked if they have a seated area, and they have, so we have reserved a couple of seats.
The UK is being battered by storm Doris today, and it’s blowing a gale and chucking it down with rain – not good dog-walking weather. The dog seems to know this, and keeps her head down. We take advantage of a brief dry spell mid-morning.
I want to get on with the editing of my video today, but am having trouble getting started (motivation!). I sit down at my MacBook just after lunch, and review what I did yesterday. I’m just about to continue with the editing when there’s a knock at the door – my brother arrives to see how I am, so the editing is shelved for a couple more hours.
I manage to do some more work on the video (and vacuum downstairs) before my wife arrives home from work, and then we have a mad rush to have something to eat, get changed and get ourselves to the LCR in Norwich.
The support acts are truly dreadful – when they stopped playing it was akin to removing a tight pair of pants – but Deaf Havana played a storming set, and we both really enjoyed it. I’m so glad we had seats – it was tiring enough being seated, I don’t think I would have made it to the end of the gig if we had been standing.