Last week I kept on eating bacon despite it being bad for me. On Thursday morning I had a revolutionary experience in the form of posh breakfasts – Gareth (of Drowned in Sound/I Was A Cub Scout managerial fame) and I decided to hit up the Wolseley on Piccadilly and were so taken by its genius and brilliance that we reckoned we’d go there as often as possible with as many different people as possible.
From the Wolseley/DiS offices I went on to Glastonbury. That was a good weekend. As everyone ever has said long before me, Bjork and Arcade Fire were among the highlights. My best moment, though, has to be Africa Express on the Park stage on Saturday night. Damon Albarn, Baba Maal, The Magic Numbers, Tony Allen, Fatboy Slim and Terry Hall, amongst others, all on a little stage just jamming away. I used my production pass to great effect and ended up side of stage when they did Rock The Casbah – it was absolutely brilliant. My only regret of the weekend is not spending more time with The Magic Numbers – we seemed to keep on missing each other which I think was mostly my fault – but hopefully I’ll see them soon.
Can’t remember the past week at all really. GoodBooks did Loose Ends on Radio 4 on Saturday which was good fun – BBC bacon sandwiches are top notch – though meeting Rupert Everett and David Suchet first thing in the morning was quite bizarre. I went to the pub in the afternoon with Dan our Digital Man where we bonded and discussed the dullness of weekends. There’s nothing like working out how to exploit Facebook to sell records on a Saturday afternoon, and so that was good.
This week holds booking some gigs for Le Tetsuo and preparing for GoodBooks ICA gig for the iTunes Festival, plus a trip to Canterbury on Wednesday to see GB in the studio. I’ve only been to Canterbury once, I think, but I’m far more excited about hearing new GoodBooks tracks for the first time in a couple of months than I am with the prospect of a new cathedral to add to my non existant list of ‘Cathedrals What That I Have Gone To’.
Technorati: I Was A Cub Scout, Le Tetsuo, Glastonbury Festival, Piccadilly, Wolseley, iTunes Festival
