The Wonderful and Weirdly Normal Beth Jeans Houghton - The Westgarth 19 February 2012
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Some of what I've been up to so far this year
My lack of posting recently has been mainly down to technical problems with Blogger rather than my usual laziness. I'm aware people have made comments to some of (not so) recent posts - alas I can't read them, I will keep trying though and (for what it's worth) respond. So what have I been up to? Not a lot really. Been to the Sessions a few times. Saw a new young and surprisingly refreshing punk band, Mikey's Smile. The muso's have had the local rock music scene their own way for far too long. Hopefully see much more of them as the year go on. Went to see post rockers Explosions In The Sky at the Sage supported by Newcastle's Lanterns on the Lake . It was double bubble for me. I've been waiting to see Explosions In The Sky again since I saw them at my first EOTR in 2009 and I've missed Lanterns of the Lake a couple of times now. Explosions in the Sky have some elements that normally turn me off. No vo...
End Of An Era
There’s another week-end over. Well almost anyway, another couple of hours to go before I pop off to bed. It started on Friday with yet another funeral, my Uncle Jack’s. It is as my cousin Stephen said, “the end of an era”, the last of the generation in both his and my family. Jack had a fair day for it though, the roads were clear but all the surrounding fields and villages were covered in snow from the top of Birk Brow all the way to Bridlington. Blue skies all the way. I’d made embryonic arrangements to go over with my cousin Brenda but she made her own arrangements. No offence to Brenda but the journey was the better for my being alone. Haven’t got many personal memories of Jack to be honest - he moved away from Teesside to do his national service in the Army and then joining the Royal Air Force before finally settling in Bridlington. Although he used to come back to Middlesbrough fairly often we never ...