Califone

Went up to Dingwalls in Camden last night to see the band Califone and supports with the lovely Jane, her fiance Greg and Chris in tow. It was a brilliant night, all up. The first band were alright, and what they may have lacked in the song dept., the certainly made up for in the funny suit dept, so all was well.

Califone, though, were really quite a pleasant surprise. Kind of like a more folky, rocky, and vocal version of The Dirty Three ...... only less depressing and .. well, probably the only thing they had in common was a violin ...

... but they added a Banjo to the repertoire .. which made for a happy, albeit disproportianately large and rather drunken, Tangles.

Snow that’s what its like

My first white London-scape! Woke this morning to a nice layer of snow and had to run back inside to get the camera. Everything was a bit more pretty walking to the station and to work.

In other news, my house had a massive house party on Saturday. The downstairs was moved upstairs. A mirror ball, a wooden floor covering, some decks, UV lights and painted wall hangings and about 50 people were moved in downstairs and the whole thing didn’t stop until about 7.30am in the morning. It was not, all up, really what I was in the mood for, but I figure it is the first and hopefully last house party that I will be involved in hosting and as such it was a worthwhile exercise.