Climate change concerts

According to the FT today a series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" is being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before an audience of a global audience of 2 billion.

The event, scheduled for July 7, will feature co-ordinated film, music and television events in seven cities including London, Washington DC, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and Kyoto.

It is understood that former US vice-president Al Gore, whose movie An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to cinema audiences last year, will announce the event tomorrow in London.

Tracy Chapman at the Colston Hall in Bristol

We went to see Tracy Chapman last night in Bristol as she kicked off her European tour. I have seen her live several times and she was as ever absolutely brilliant. She played many of my old favourites and there were only one or two that I did not recognise. For me two songs really stood out. Her performance of “America” was so strong and powerful it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and her performance of “Behind the Wall” was absolutely awesome and you could have heard a pin drop as she performed this one. Anyone who wants to know more about Tracy can find a discography here

Jethro Tull in Oxford

Just back from watching Jethro Tull perform in Oxford having been dragged along by my wife who is a great fan of them. I had never listened to much of their stuff and found them to be an interesting mix of classical, folk and rock. My wife was a little disappointed with the singing but the real star of the show for me was the classical violinist Lucia Micarelli who was on stage with Jethro Tull for most of the show.

Purchased her CD "Music from a farther room" and listened to it on the way back.

Brilliant stuff for more info see http://www.luciamicarelli.com/

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The what classic punk band are you? Test

I couldn't resist taking this test and this is the answer I got

The Ramones (actually one of my favourite bands - see my profile)

This is where you belong in the annals of punk history!

You probably don't realize how cool you actually are.

You set the trend by not setting one.

You do what you want and are surprised when other people like doing it your
way. You may be simple but that's just fine.

Who cares, right? you'll go down in history as the stuff of legends, though
you have no idea why; as far as you knew, you were just some stupid person
having some fun, right?

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