Coldplay and lightning at Crystal Palace June 29, 2005

For you, I’d wait ’til kingdom come.Until my day, my day is done.And say you’ll come, and set me free,Just say you’ll wait, you’ll wait for me.
This song; ‘Til Kingdom Come’, the final track on Coldplay’s latest album – was being played in almost hymn-like fashion as lightning lit up the clouds over Crystal [...]

We should mention San Francisco June 27, 2005

To celebrate the addition of images to Blogger.com’s services, we must throw up a few images of San Franciso: The photos were taken from our new video camera, the Sony HC90E, which is a great little piece of kit! We have nearly 3 60min tapes worth of footage between home (some cute stuff of [...]

Shopping in the rain June 25, 2005

Well, we hope not, but here we go anyway.
We are house-sitting for the next 2 1/2 weeks up between Shepherds Bush and Acton, and it is a really nice little place; we’re really looking forward to it. So when I’ve finished writing this, I’ll head upstairs to pack my suitcase, throw some toiletries in a [...]

Vertigo gets gravity and light June 21, 2005

transcendence: n 1: a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience [syn: transcendency] 2: the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits [syn: transcendency, superiority]
In this case, it doesnt matter what level of transcendence a band like U2 offers when playing live, if the world around [...]

Not long to go before VERTIGO June 16, 2005

A matter of hours really – 48 or so, and we’ll be walking into the stadium… yeah baby!
Sara’s just bought some paints thanks to some lovely philanthropy from home… and she was excited last night showing me sketches and talking about what she wants to paint. I love that she’s ‘back into it’ and I [...]

Ten excerpts of God’s goodness: a list. June 12, 2005

1. Our Hotel in SF was all it promised to be on the net, and more.2. All luggage arrived intact, and under threat of a US$140 extra baggage-check fee leaving San Francisco, I was allowed to put my Taylor Acoustic Guitar in a closet on the plane. For free. Nice.3. We got all of our [...]

Live from London June 8, 2005

Hello from gig-central!
Today is the end of week two in London, and things are just rocking along!
All of this psuedo-musical metaphor is appropriate because in 10 days time we will be jumping on a train to Twickenham football stadium to see U2 live!! The European Stadium-leg of the ‘Vertigo Tour’ will be huge, the stage [...]