enjoy the silence

went to see depeche mode at Wembley Arena last night and I have to say it was so much better than madonna – perhaps I am a little biased as I was into DM way before her madgesty. fad gadget were support and sounded like a very bad front 242 and ironically it was DM that had supported them back in the early days.

There was a fantastic mix of old school and the newer albums including exciter. Tracklist included The Dead Of Night, The Sweetest Condition, Halo, Walking In My Shoes, Dream On, When The Body Speaks, Waiting For The Night To Fall, Judas, Breathe, Freelove , Enjoy The Silence, I Feel You, In Your Room, It’s No Good and Personal Jesus with an encore of Home, Clean, Black Celebration and Never Let Me Down Again.

I’d forgotten just how good they really are live. Fantastic show!

skinny – moi?

Looks like I’ll need to go out and buy men’s health this month just in case I am skinny – they have a supplement ‘Skinny Man’s Build Up Plan’

[details at Swish Cottage]

closer to music

The Closer to Heaven Soundtrack is now available. the play has now closed so if you missed it this might give you a flavour!

I wonder if I’ll manage to blag a copy?

pub quiz

I am not sure if I am more disturbed by the fact that davo, scally and myself only managed 6 out of 20 or that I knew a dodgy Gypsy Kings remix of Hotel California from the first bar.

Wendy assures me the questions are not normally this hard – and I believe her – I did work with her for long enough 😉

Congratulations to the A List who will no doubt fill you in on the rest of the answers and some of the questions too!

[details from swishcottage]

depeche mode

fantastic – I’m off to see DM tonight at Wembley Arena – can’t wait. Only thing that would have made it better is if Ed was there too.

dodgy dealing

Isn’t it amazing eh? If you walked into a shop and picked up a suit with a ?100 price tag and went to the till only for them to tell you they had none left at that price but they can do you the same one for ?230 or the trousers only for ?95 you would wonder what was going on. Yet this is normal for train companies and airlines.

Eurostar have a number of adverts for fares from ?79 at the moment so I logged on to book to Brussels for mid November. Now on the site they have an interwebnet™ offer of travelling first class for ?100 so I thought great – except the booking engine stopped working so I get the number from directory enquiries [helpfully the error message fails to give the booking number] only to be told that the cheapest economy fare available for that weekend is now ?95 as they have no availability for any other offers. So essentially even though they have seats left they are changing the price.

Doesn’t seem fair somehow does it.

Needless to say i am looking at bmi yet again as they seem to be the only people who offer static fares at a low cost with availability [even though they are sometimes delayed].

Look on the brightside though reading 8letters™ is free*

*for a limited time only for a limited yet undisclosed number of viewers. prices and availability may be subject to change and there is bugger all you can do about it

fickle

I have just been accused of being fickle 🙁

me fickle?

I need an online test immediately…

fickle adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; “fickle friends”; “a flirt’s volatile affections” [syn: volatile] 2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; “erratic behavior”; “fickle weather”; “mercurial twists of temperament”; “a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next” [syn: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]

It just doesn’t sound like me.