Tuesday 19 January 2010

I felt quite healthy yesterday, fitted in a bike ride and swim. Well, it lasted a day.

Barnaby wangled me a ticket to Bobby McFerrin's school show this morning which was a treat. Little TOrch (a small chunk of the Treacherous Orchestra) played a great set too: it's refreshing to hear a band that will happily play the same strathspey for about 4 minutes, and keep it entertaining for about 2000 kids. Last night Barnaby and I  were both at Alasdair Roberts's place for a very convivial gathering of musos and others. 

It's not often that I hear something that unexpectedly grabs my attention and makes me stop what I'm doing, but Ollie Halsall's guitar solo on Kevin Ayers's otherwise rather unremarkable Another Rolling Stone makes a space for itself in an unassuming fashion, and then does something strikingly beautiful.