Hare Krishna

Take trips get high
Laugh joke and good bye
Beat drum and old tin pot
I'm high on you know what

Anyway if you haven't seen Hair on stage I recommend you should. It's incredible. Especially for those of you who have grown up with a Vietnam Vet in the family- because you will cry through the second act and have a very personal attachment with it. I did.
I'm going to have to lay out my week day by day. So much has gone on, fabulous things but it's all so clustered in my skull at the moment I'm trying to expel it gracefully.
Monday was my day off- so I roamed around the city for a day- prowled around Brick Lane, the street with the most Indian Restaurants per capita in the City and probably in the whole of western Europe, delicious saffron coffee and cakes to be found for only a pound. Lovely vintage stores and market stalls to be found and it's a really young area. The people who live there tend to be a lot like the Portland crowds, which makes me oddly homesick. Not homesick, but I'm okay coming back home because well, I miss it when I see people reminiscent of Portland.
Tuesday, the big day of full time job, started with a lot of research. I was asked by my boss Adam to basically have a look at the website and come up with improvements. The website- dunemusic.com is a blog format that we post updates and news to. It's a nice website but looks a little unprofessional to my eye. I have been searching for web designs that could add a sales component to our website and to add a music player so when people visit the site, they can also hear music.
Which leads me to work on Wednesday which was mianly uploading hours and hours of jazz onto the website- updating the website. In fact if you want to see my work you can check out dunemusic.com and all the posts on that first page were written by ME!
Wednesday night was HAIR! Oh my godness. I'm sure all you... my gorey chums have heard me sing Hair in my little champagne coloured car one or twice or many many many times.
The story of the show is through song- it's all very fluid. It's 1969, Vietnam, the hippies of central park and their stories are all told, most have been kicked out by their parents, free love, drugs and all that jazz. I cried through most of the second act, they were dancing through the audience and it felt like they were all totally passionate about the message of the musical... which is still quite applicable today, but in different ways. If was slightly disheartening to come out of such a moving performance, rejecting capitalism and all the consumerist ideals etc etc. and then walking into the lobby to find overpriced shirts and programs.
It was beyond wonderful. I do love musicals- but Hair is by far and away my favourite, because it's not a musical (like Oklahoma) with all its kitchy-ness.
Thursday and Friday were crazy busy at work with meetings with what may have been everyone important in the jazz world. I've met so many event planners, the venue director at Ronnie Scott's (World Famous jazz/funk/soul club) and set up a meeting with some Scottish video company to do a Dune Music company video!
All that is happening this coming week.
Since it's been a bit since I wrote I need to fill you in on the weekend events. If you have not heard of Scott Macpherson (Sophie Cargill's lovely other)'s band The French Wives- Myspace them... NOW. I'll wait.......
....Good yeah? Great. Saw another band too called Sunbirds who were also wonderful. I've been hanging out with those lads (by the way the Sunbirds guitarist Dean lives with Kai Fish- bassist of Mystery Jets!!!!!) Again if you have not heard of Mystery Jets or Sunbirds go myspace, youtube, or google them. Shoo.
Incredibly talented young folks who make me feel a bit like I haven't done much with my life for being 21.
Pictures still to come, as well as more posts this week- there are 2 gigs I'm organizing for Dune Music coming up this week. Exciting stuff.
Also, have a date with Dean on Monday. We shall see.