Liberia here I come

I've just got the tickets today, its 98.5% definite - liberia here I come.

Mr Kay

went to see peter kay on sunday. Funny man, air shovel!!!

mad to think he sold out the point for 6 nites

Justified Ancients

We I bought a couple of cds the other day which I'm working through.

Blues & Jazz.

John Lee Hooker - I think Benny had introduced me to him. I got this and the squirrel nut zipper album in the excellent Freebird Record shop in Dublin

I can't remember who told be about the squirel nut zippers but I think it was benny, I think they're like the canadian cherry poppin daddies - modern swing

I also got a best of Son House, I've been fascinated by this guys since watching the Martin Scorcsese documentary on the blues. The recording quality is fairly poor so I'm looking forward to having a good listen to it with the head phones on.

And finally a double album including Lee Morgan's The Cooker and Lee-Way both early albums of his recorded before The Sidewinder.

Long time coming

Hey there, been a long time since I posted but I've got something to share.

Recent book - Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, this was one on loan from the library. Plugged as being a forerunner of the modern spy novel. I got about halfway through it and had to put it down out of sheer boredom. Unless you have been sailing I'd say you might find this book particularly confusing and somewhat boring. I got them impression I left right before it was going to get "exciting" but I wasn't holding out great hope.

In the interim I was reading the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, which I forgot was one of the 1001 Stories of the Arabian nights. Actually I'd say its 7 of the nights. Very short little book which I read on the plane to Berlin. A little bit repetitive but I could see how a 10year old would have enjoy this.

So I've switched to a recent €2 purchase of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemmingway which, so for, is great.