Do the dance of geeker joy!
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lonelybritIt's been a good past seven days. Kicked off last weekend when I sauntered up to London for birthday drinks with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
princess_s and friends. The weather was glorious and the wine flowed freely. Good times.
The next day and it was up to Moseley Folk Festival with friends and family to imbibe cider and listen to the likes of Waterson: Carthy and Seth Lakeman. (Sorry you couldn't make it, Riv, we will catch Lakeman next time he passes by though!) If anyone is slightly interested in folk music, I definitely recommend this as a good day out. Particularly as the line-up this year was brilliant. Normally the bands before 8ish are perfectly pleasant but very easy-listening, leaving you to wander the stalls, buy food and examine the ice-house. This year... no way. The quality of all the bands was brilliant, and whoever picked them picked well as there was just the right level of variety that you couldn't help but get hooked by the next song. And this was despite the best attempts of the weather to be cold and miserable. It was chilled enough that people were favouring the tea and coffees over the ciders, but on the plus side, those bands really must have been good to have sounded so pleasant to people stone cold sober. Highlights:
x. John Tams singing Over The Hills. Yes he is also the chap from Sharpe. One of the first acts and he managed to bring the entire park to a standstill as we all stopped to listen; not a dry eye in the house *sniffle*
x. Chris T-T singing about the first giraffe that swam to the UK. Whatever he was on, I want some. Great entertainment that went from sharp political points to shameless fun. He went off on a slight tangent over Seth Lakeman, gravely announcing that he was determined to find him backstage so he could dry-hump him since, dude, 'sexy'.
x. Rachel Unthank & The Winterset. Gorgeous voices plus they tap-dance their own beat. They also had a 'Seth Lakeman' moment, taking a moment to consider his, erm, talent between songs.
x. Waterson: Carthy. Dudes. The dons of folk. Brilliant. What else can I say, despite the rain attempting to soak us, they kept the whole park hooked.
x. Seth Lakeman. He opened by remembering the last time he was at Moseley, where he was on the smaller stage (which was then the 'main stage') where the power constantly cut out and plunged everyone into darkness. This time round and he had a proper main stage, the rain had stopped, and there were no power issues at all - hurrah! During the first song the mother and the youngest spawn were priming themselves to be dismissive of yet another person who got ahead of better bands purely because he is aesthetically pleasing and has a strong bass. By the end of the second song they were silent, and even the mother grudgingly admitted 'He is a very good fiddler'. Riflemen of War was my personal favourite, a oldschool marching song played live as a shameless dance anthem with Lakeman rocking out on his fiddle. I do think he sounds far, far better live than can be captured in a studio - Colliers, one of my least favourites on the CD, was awesome live. We all went quiet for King and Country and I heard Haunted for the first time (remind me to get this newest album). His encore was a hoe-down and he was getting people to actually dance.
Then it was back to work, but I found myself cheered by the various reports and pictures coming out from Dragon*Con - like this one. Anthony Lewis, Gareth David-Lloyd and James Marsters on the Torchwood panel. *happy sigh* Sounds like a hell of a good weekend, suitably filthy yet amusing anecdotes, plus of course the eye candy :)
There was also Gladiators. It was the last ep with the 'Legends' (Wolf, Hunter and others) returning to put the new generation in their place, in some cases very emphatically. It was hard to feel sorry for the new glads when they were trounced purely because they were all so obviously fangirling/fanboying over actually getting to go up against the guys they adored as children. Hearing 'Wild Thing' beat out as Wolf entered the stadium was pure nostalgic joy :) It also proves that if you take good care of yourself, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to physically outperform some young whippersnapper a good 20 years younger than you - I draw hope from this!
Finally, today, there were more pics from the lastest scenes being shot for Torchwood series 3. All I can say is... damn. Wales certainly does produce some very very fine men and women *happy sigh*
princess_s and friends. The weather was glorious and the wine flowed freely. Good times. The next day and it was up to Moseley Folk Festival with friends and family to imbibe cider and listen to the likes of Waterson: Carthy and Seth Lakeman. (Sorry you couldn't make it, Riv, we will catch Lakeman next time he passes by though!) If anyone is slightly interested in folk music, I definitely recommend this as a good day out. Particularly as the line-up this year was brilliant. Normally the bands before 8ish are perfectly pleasant but very easy-listening, leaving you to wander the stalls, buy food and examine the ice-house. This year... no way. The quality of all the bands was brilliant, and whoever picked them picked well as there was just the right level of variety that you couldn't help but get hooked by the next song. And this was despite the best attempts of the weather to be cold and miserable. It was chilled enough that people were favouring the tea and coffees over the ciders, but on the plus side, those bands really must have been good to have sounded so pleasant to people stone cold sober. Highlights:
x. John Tams singing Over The Hills. Yes he is also the chap from Sharpe. One of the first acts and he managed to bring the entire park to a standstill as we all stopped to listen; not a dry eye in the house *sniffle*
x. Chris T-T singing about the first giraffe that swam to the UK. Whatever he was on, I want some. Great entertainment that went from sharp political points to shameless fun. He went off on a slight tangent over Seth Lakeman, gravely announcing that he was determined to find him backstage so he could dry-hump him since, dude, 'sexy'.
x. Rachel Unthank & The Winterset. Gorgeous voices plus they tap-dance their own beat. They also had a 'Seth Lakeman' moment, taking a moment to consider his, erm, talent between songs.
x. Waterson: Carthy. Dudes. The dons of folk. Brilliant. What else can I say, despite the rain attempting to soak us, they kept the whole park hooked.
x. Seth Lakeman. He opened by remembering the last time he was at Moseley, where he was on the smaller stage (which was then the 'main stage') where the power constantly cut out and plunged everyone into darkness. This time round and he had a proper main stage, the rain had stopped, and there were no power issues at all - hurrah! During the first song the mother and the youngest spawn were priming themselves to be dismissive of yet another person who got ahead of better bands purely because he is aesthetically pleasing and has a strong bass. By the end of the second song they were silent, and even the mother grudgingly admitted 'He is a very good fiddler'. Riflemen of War was my personal favourite, a oldschool marching song played live as a shameless dance anthem with Lakeman rocking out on his fiddle. I do think he sounds far, far better live than can be captured in a studio - Colliers, one of my least favourites on the CD, was awesome live. We all went quiet for King and Country and I heard Haunted for the first time (remind me to get this newest album). His encore was a hoe-down and he was getting people to actually dance.
Then it was back to work, but I found myself cheered by the various reports and pictures coming out from Dragon*Con - like this one. Anthony Lewis, Gareth David-Lloyd and James Marsters on the Torchwood panel. *happy sigh* Sounds like a hell of a good weekend, suitably filthy yet amusing anecdotes, plus of course the eye candy :)
There was also Gladiators. It was the last ep with the 'Legends' (Wolf, Hunter and others) returning to put the new generation in their place, in some cases very emphatically. It was hard to feel sorry for the new glads when they were trounced purely because they were all so obviously fangirling/fanboying over actually getting to go up against the guys they adored as children. Hearing 'Wild Thing' beat out as Wolf entered the stadium was pure nostalgic joy :) It also proves that if you take good care of yourself, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to physically outperform some young whippersnapper a good 20 years younger than you - I draw hope from this!
Finally, today, there were more pics from the lastest scenes being shot for Torchwood series 3. All I can say is... damn. Wales certainly does produce some very very fine men and women *happy sigh*
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Date: 2008-09-05 02:15 am (UTC)The clips from the new scenes for TW seriers 3!!! *Bites tongue to avoid spoilers incase you didn't see anything*
Gareth is a filthy, filthy, filthy boy :D I can't love him possibly more than I do now... oh wait, now I have the visual of him and John texting each other pictures back and forth of their naughty bits to blow
ahahaha I said blowtheir streamline acting on set~AND YES I AM FILLED WITH HUZZAH THAT THE GLADIATORS FINALE WAS SO AWESOME :D
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Date: 2008-09-05 01:06 pm (UTC)I just realised that last year when I was at Moseley I was planning to go to a London signing con to meet GDL for the first time. Even back then he was still relatively shy, he hadn't even done The Point gig yet. He has come on so, so much in just a year. At the Point it was definitely JM in charge, but this time round and the only one who kept GDL in check was the Barrowman himself. Aww :)
Gladiators was awesome! Sadly they did the Eliminator relay style, so no Spartan on the handbike or swimming under flames. Though, dude, Predator was amazing on his section. Spartan got left with the zipwire and travellator. *ahem*
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Date: 2008-09-05 06:32 pm (UTC)I shouldn't of laughed as hard as I did seeing his skirt fly its way up the travellator but... well, he wasn't entirely dressed for that sort of thing now was he? XD
And to avoid my usual charming activity of 'insert foot into yonder mouth' I will stop any spoiler talk now! As I have no shame, look at nearly EVERY post, but will do good to not say anything to honor your far better self-control than my own :D But yes... PRETTY CAST!
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Date: 2008-09-07 05:15 pm (UTC)