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Hilarious

Gemma Hayes - KCLSU (Kings College London Students Union), 7th October.

As part of my effort to re-educate my wife into an appreciation of decent music (her last live gig was attempting to see Westlife for pity’s sake), we went along to see the lovely Gemma Hayes on her triumphant return to the UK, preceeding her new album to be released at the end of the month.

The new material was great, the new band are certainly different, but a change can do you good, and it’s good to have Gemma back from the musical wilderness, having temporarily lost her mojo. Fortunately she found it after a 2 year absence from the music scene in L.A.

Awesome to see Gemma live again.

We had a good view from the balcony above the door (overlooking backstage). Never been to KCLSU before - good venue.

Loved the new material.

Wasn’t too sure about the new keys to begin with … I’m not sure if his levels were screwed slightly (and that damn buzz!) - I noticed him more than any of the other band, and occasionally that was a distraction to Gemma, but I think he redeemed himself on Hanging Around. The man looks like he’s gonna collapse every time he gets up to play. That or his forehead’s gonna hit the keys before his hands do. Think his name was Adam (”also known as the White Black Man” according to Gem.)

I love Happy Sad.

Go the guy that shouted out for “Stop The Wheel” (only to elicit a response of “Oh yeah …” from Gem. You reckon it’s been consigned to the old school Gemma Hayes days?). Also well done to the bloke around the bar shouting out that she was, indeed, “Easy on the Eyes”

I’m glad she got such an awesome response from Evening Sun. She seems to get so nervous - bless Smile

We were laughing about the crazy dancing white haired dude 3 from the front. No one else seemed to be in his groove …

Anywho - next up, KT Tunstall, at the Shepherds Bush Empire, this Friday (21st). Fresh from winning best single for “Black Horse and The Cherry Tree” at this year’s Q Music Awards, I’ve just found out that the support is gonna be Ed Harcourt! Hooray! I own two of the mans albums (”Here be Monsters” and “From Every Sphere”), and it’ll be an awesome bonus to see him play live.

We’re off to Wales for a week the day after to gig, but we’ll blog upon our return.

Laters!

George Constanza, prob best known from the Seinfeld Show:

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating…

…and you finish off as an orgasm.”

Some other quotes which may, or may not have been attributed to another George, George Carlin, but they’re still funny.

“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it”

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things”

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live”

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”

“I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me … they’re cramming for their final exam.”

hee hee!

http://www.georgecarlin.com

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/quotes/george_carlin.html

http://www.ariga.com/frosties/georgeconstanza.shtml

There are some amusing photos of us getting drunk in various places posted up to the photo site now!

http://photos.edgillett.com

Keep checking there - we’ll be adding to them when we can be bothered!

Enjoy!

Am getting used to the idea that random people from across the globe are stumbling across our photos and enjoying them enough to add them into their own favourites, or writing comments against them as they have a look through.

It’s a completely different kid of community I guess - people browsing through looking at photos - I guess we have the worlds largest shared photo album here, or, judging by some of the truly superb artistic photos on Flickr, the worlds largest “Fine Art Photography” gallery.

I’ll get around to doing comments and tags properly eventually.

The tag idea is very cool - who’d have thought someone could make keywords and meta data (something I deal with on a daily basis as part of my work) fun and groovy! (and more useful too).

That said, I’m suprised that people have pictures of Kat and I on their favourites list. I’m even more suprised that they’re not the ones with Kat wearing her bikini in waterfalls/sea! I’m sure those people will come along evetually
I think the flurry of activity was driven from the “recent additions” feature from the Flickr homepage which may have caught some peoples attention. Can’t think how else they came across us, since nothing’s really been tagged yet.

Yes.

I know. Still no nice interface for the photos, still no blog of wedding or Koh Samui part of honeymoon. Sorry!!

I will endeavour to fix this this weekend. Somewhere between writing all the remaining thank you letters (which really REALLY must be finished this weekend!).

In other minor news, new bedstead has arrived. Looks great, if a little long. Kat must now “shimmy” along the bottom of the bed to get around the other side due to the significantly reduced space between the bottom of our new bed and the chests of drawers on that wall. Hmmm. There is no scope for moving furniture around in the bedroom (No. Really, there isn’t.) So we’ll have to live with the shimmy and sore shins until we move house.

New Tempur mattress arriving next week - which we hope will be the end of all our back problems, and the continuation of our own financial destruction
IKEA - went after work wednesday night - and they were quiet. Eerily so. But, I managed to get the runners which were missing from our MALM drawer and also the one missing part of “The Beast”. So we’re complete!! No more trips back to Ikea for a bit now. Phew!

We also now have a joint bank account! Very exciting.

Kat still job hunting.

We’re still dog sitting for Kat’s parents, who return from China this weekend after two weeks away.

Off for Dinner and Bowling tonight with my wife, Elle and James, Lyndsay and Tom. Not bowled in ages - here’s hoping the strikes will still come a flying

There are Loads (345!) from the official Photographer which we own digitally, and will be putting up on the web properly over the course of the next few days, but here’s a sampler!

Keep an eye out here: http://photos.edgillett.com (EDIT: Now on Flickr! All in hi-res for printing if you want, but also really easy to browse through. See later blog entry for details!).

Thanks to James Walker for the first digital photo to makes its way onto the blog. Lots more to come - will upload all of them to the website eventually.

Wow.

So much to say, so little time. Hopefully all read our lil blog from Bangkok, but we’ll be blogging all about Koh Samui, and the wedding day itself just as soon as I can sit down and get it all sorted.

In the meantime, I leave you with the following highlights: Elephant Trekking in The Jungle, Zip wire/Flying Foxes in the Jungle Canopies just for fun follwed by showers in waterfalls, being taught how to make Thai curry in the jungle by locals, Kayaking through Angthong National Marine Park and visiting the Emerald Lake, Eating like kings in loads of amazing restaurants with gorgeous views whilst we ate.

Mrs Gillett is making herself at home properly in the flat, and we up at 6am yesterday putting more shelves up in the office/second bedroom to help accomodate all the stuff lying around the place in piles. Kat’s off to change her name on bank accounts etc. today, and will be applying for her new passport and driving license etc.

Other exciting stuff which almost gets caught up in all the post wedding fun (presents, photos and videos galore!), is I’m off to see the Pixies play at Ally Pally tomorrow night!! Oh yeah! They rocked at Reading festival apparently, so I’m really looking forward to it - should be awesome.

Will blog wedding and honeymoon in detail later, but for now … enjoy the view from the pool - loads more to come when I post them all elsewhere!

Hi all
Kat and Ed here (or Mr and Mrs Gillett!), blogging from an internet cafe in the Asia Hotel in Bangkok just before we head off to the airport to go to Koh Samui for the rest of our honeymoon. Nothing to do until our transfer gets here, already checked out, so we thought we’d blog!

Good news. Wedding ring doesn’t appear to be affecting typing performance. Bonus. Thai symbols in addition to slightly odd layout on keyboard are however
So, what have we been up to. Well we had a traditional thai “brunch” out on the street the first morning we were here with the locals at a street stall, noodles and soup and dim sum. Lovely! We then proceeded to take our lives in our hands by taking a tuk tuk around town for most of the day, with our friendly tuk tuk driver Leo (”like the lion!”). Leo didn’t rip us off as much as he could have done, and much to his credit appeared to take us to some of the better places where he could get his commission!! (even to a very good jewellery store where he didn’t get any commission - very impressive!). So we went over to the river for a private cruise in a long boat, and saw some traditional bangkok houses by the river, we went to a tailor to get the seemingly mandatory tailor made suit (Yup - Ed got a new Cashmere suit, three silk shirts and a silk tie thrown in for good measure - all for