Tuesday, April 29, 2008

More blogs.

Just squeezing a blog or two in before the end of April. I'm sorry I've been awol for a month or so, I've been galavanting around during the Easter holidays doing various vet-related things, and haven't though to blog. You'd think it'd be in the blood by now. Sorry!

In recent Cambridge news, the Broken Glass website has been revamped using some cunning css and html japery that Andrew and a wesbite have taught me - it makes designing about a trillion times easier to do, and has enabled me to do it simply with the use of a text editor. Huzzah! Take a look and be delighted :)

Also, Vicky, Alex and me went to see I am Kloot last week at the Junction, and my what a gig it was. Kloot really are amazing, even their new album (which I feel is quite poorly produced) sounded good live, which thankfully helped me realise that it's not the band that have gone awry, just the production. They're still good songs. They were supported by a random American called Ferraby Lionheart, which really is a good name, even if it did take me about 100 failed attempts at remembering his name before I got it. He was quite good - fairly standard guitarry-singy stuff, the sort of thing you could imagine drifting down the tunnel to the museums at South Kensington tube station. I got a poster at the end (it's got cartoony pictures of the band from a gig they did in 2006 on my birthday so I had to get it really), and just as I bought it, John, the lead singer turned up with a big black pen. So I asked him if he'd mind if I "waved a poster under his nose", he didn't mind and signed it up. Huzzah!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi! I came across your blog entry because I subscribe to a google blog search of the phrase "Ferraby Lionheart". I like his music a lot and enjoy reading what random people write about it/him. I've seen him play several times and was introduced to a bunch of cool bands that way, like The Brunettes and Richard Hawley. now I want to check out I Am Kloot.
I don't usually leave comments but since you asked so nicely I did. =)

Tom Ward said...

Thanks for the comment Rian. Ferraby wasn't bad - he probably needed some other band members, perhaps just some drums as alone he seemed a little scared and small (very thin!), and the sound was fairly average, nothing really different about him. He does have a great voice. Me and my friends thought "Put me in your play" was particularly good. Do listen to IAK, they really are very good. I'd recommend the self titled album "I am Kloot" a a good place to start. I love the Manchester accents and the way I can listen to them in any situation, they always make me happy. They've got me through many an exam term at uni!
Tom

Anonymous said...

Hi Tom,

We've never met, but can I just say how completely amazing the Broken Glass website is - both in terms of what you've done with it and what those two genius young women are putting out there into the world of contemporary theatre.

Vicky.