Just for general wonderings…
‘Turtles All The Way Down’ by John Green
Teenage Fiction.
The blurb says the book is about a sixteen-year-old girl called Aza who is trying to track down a fugitive billionaire. Sounds like teenage crime fiction right? But it is nothing of the sort, in a good way. It’s all about Aza and her compulsive thoughts and how she overcomes them.
Well worth a read.
Grace Petrie.
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds.
First visit to The Apex and, as usual, Grace Petrie never fails to entertain. She was on top form, playing songs from right across her catalogue. And she played IKEA, which I love!
It’s the seventh gig of the year, Grace goes straight into number 3:
Cinema City Norwich.
The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel.
Our fifth visit to the cinema this year, it’s another documentary rather than a movie.
This was a last minute booking after realising yesterday’s Coldplay extravaganza was only the first outing of the month. Lots of animated films and rubbish on at the moment, so this was the best of a bad bunch.
The documentary is about an ex-Norwich footballer: Tony Powell.
Tony Powell moved to California after a successful football career to run the Holloway Motel. But his life was more complicated than that: broken marriage, estranged children, no contact with his siblings and behind all this his difficulties in being openly gay in the 1970/80s.
It was an interesting documentary although failed to really cover his life fully.
As much as it’s nearly impossible to rate all the cinema visits, and it feels a bit harsh, it goes in at number 5:
Beans on Toast.
Thorington Theatre.
A really good evening. Thorington Theatre is a fantastic outdoor space, first time visit, but not the last.
It was a Beans and friends evening: Jack Francis, She Drew the Gun, before Beans himself (with Ten Sheds on the keyboard).
Loved it.
Fifth gig of the year, goes in at number two:
Heathers.
Platform Theatre, City College Norwich.
Tonight was the turn of the musical. Heathers. Iconic movie from the 1980s adapted for the stage. When I say ‘iconic’, I’d never actually heard of it, so had no idea what to expect.
It was a production by the drama students at City College in Norwich, ex-student invited us.
Great production, loads of dancing and loads of songs. Loads of killing.
The sound was a bit drowned out by the band at times, but all in all, the kids did well.
Seen a few good shows this year so far, so this only makes number 4:
‘The Bug Club’
Norwich Arts Centre.
Fourth gig of the year. A visit to the lovely Norwich Arts Centre for the fabulous The Bug Club.
Really good evening – they don’t mess around – it was song after song after song.
The Bug Club go in at number 2 in the gig chart:
