Nick Cave & Colin Greenwood / Sewing Club Happy Hour
[Photos taken 02 – 05 July 2024, posted online 04 October 2024. Nights are getting frosty, I’m still very unemployed, but nowhere near out of projects at home.]
Back in April, tickets to a July-show in Harpa with Nick Cave and Colin Greenwood (Radiohead‘s bassist) went on sale. I’ve long been curious about Nick Cave, and having seen the other Greenwood brother in Brussels in March, I couldn’t pass this up. (Also, big cheers for performers deciding to vacation in Iceland, and giving us mere mortals a chance to see them in action!)
When it came time to get tickets however, I got a lousy place in the online-line, and when it was my turn, there were no two-seats available!! However there was a single seat available in a fairly good spot, so I jumped on that.
A little later in the day, the organizers announced a second concert had been added. That one went on sale the morning after. After 15 minutes, that one was also sold out, and a third concert had been instantly added, with the note that there would absolutely not be any more shows! Fittingly, the third show also sold out in a few minutes! I guess Nick Cave’s fanbase in Iceland is big and ravenous!!
The remainder of the week was spent driving Emma to and from a distant camp, saying goodbye to our old sofa-bed, going out to happy hour and dinner with the sewing club (still not sewing anything), finally finishing the veggie-box lidded-enclosures, gymming, and then heading to the summer house, arriving just in time to see a spectacular sunset.
Tuesday 02 July 2024
Brussels / Natural Sciences Museum / The Smile
[Photos taken 15 March 2024, posted online 30 July 2024. The rain continues… at least the plants are happy?]
It was the day of The Smile concert, but I still needed to pass the time somehow, and hanging out on the computer all day wouldn’t do. After some perusing of options, I decided to walk to the Natural Sciences Museum, to check out some impressive dinosaur-fossils.
I got to the concert venue a bit later than I’d planned to, but got a decent spot on the floor (probably about optimal sound quality wise, but I find I’ve been spoiled by the lovely acoustics of our local Harpa venue), and thoroughly enjoyed the concert.
(However, one lesson learnt: Perhaps next time that I plan on standing for a concert, don’t go on a 3 hour walking tour beforehand…)
Friday 15 March 2024
46th Birthday, Jamie & Júníus, Druk-Play & Dinners
[Photos taken 01 – 17 March 2023, posted online 26 November 2023. Long time since last post, I got swallowed up prepping for Christmas, lots of computer projects. Not long now until I’m a year behind, sigh!]
It was my turn to celebrate a birthday, as I crossed the 46th annual age-increase-threshold, and two days later we had a 23rd wedding anniversary.
The month included a literal avalance of events and outings. We attended a play, went out to dinner, and visited the summer house. I did a photo-shoot, a hike in the freezing-cold, attended not one but two (!) concerts in Harpa, hosted a sewing club, kept going to the gym, hunting for furniture, arranging hair-cuts, and generally trying to keep my head afloat in the water.
Wednesday 01 March 2023
