My usual appalling attempts at photography and videography are featured above. The photo was taken yesterday while Luca and I were having a bit of a rough play time, even the dog was joining in the rambunctiousness - despite his lack of spark! Carole wisely disappeared upstairs... The video won't be particularly interesting to most of you, but hopefully Luca's Aunt Jane will appreciate it - it's just a little proof that he talks about his big cousins all the time!
Lucy - hopefully after next year he'll be doing the same about Cade and Braeden - not long now I guess! As long as the holiday commences as intended, things can change so suddenly in life that planning events can sometimes be as illogical as DHL workers being shot dead by their own security guards on Afghanistan.
Luca has been ill since Friday night, although I missed seeing him that night due to a combination of working late (last day before holiday) and a brief gym stop off. However, I did see him on Saturday - he was a bit of a mess. He was burning up and displayed no sense of energy. Indeed, he slept late in the morning and again for a long period in the afternoon which isn't like him. As such, we kept him at home all day - we have to ensure he's fighting fit for his hospital appointment on Tuesday.
Thankfully he woke up looking and acting 100% better today - guess it was just a 24 hour thing. I'll be taking him out to Banchory to see his grandparents shortly which'll be good for him. And me, I'm really not good at spending too much time in the house!
In reference to dad's list of all the gigs he's been to, I think I'll display a few I've been to too - I won't list every songle one due to the fact some were a little embarassing (such as a Prodigy tribute band....) allied to my lack of any kind of decent memory! However, the best I've seen would certainly be the following:-
Biffy Clyro (Aberdeen Music Hall, circa 2003)
Muse (T In The Park, circa 2001)
Grandaddy (Glasgow, circa 2001)
Rocket From The Crypt (Lemon Tree, circa 1996)
Suede (Music Hall, circa 2000)
Radiohead (Aberdeen Exhibition Centre, circa 2002)
Hell Is For Heroes (Dundee, circa 2003)
Bjork (T In The Park, circa 1993)
Biffy Clyro and Muse were expecially good. I saw both bands before they became particularly commercially successful, which is always the best time to see someone - when you catch a live act just when they're on the cusp of fame you can almost feel it - they'res a buzz, an energy and almost an expectation (or belief) from the band and crowd that something really great is imminent.
That was actually quite a hard list to establish. From memory I probably find it easier to recall the bad gigs I've been to. Of which there are many! Ignoring small bar bands who were crap, the worst successful bands I've seen were:-
Razorlight - so boring I should've brought a pillow and had a kip
Feeder - successful 90's band, but every song sounded just like the last - start quiet, then go into a REALLY LOUD CHORUS
Kasabian - just really, really poor
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - up themselves, poor musicians, so poor it seemed the gig would last forever
Hopefully by by the time I check my email again Lucy may have made her once-a-year blog entry;) And Kelly will have woken from her slumbers and realised she doesn't need to run every day! I get tired just reading about how far she runs!
And mum - did you notice Kelly's use of the word procrastinate in her latest blog? What's I tell you?
**Useless fact of the day - Some of the most well known disastrous gigs include:-
-Amy Winehouse at Birmingham NIA last year (drunk out of her skull, she was incoherent, wobbly on her legs and even threatened the crowd with violence for booing her. Unsurprisingly, she walked off stage during the encore)
-Frank Zappa at the Rainbow Theatre in London in 1971 (a deranged fan pushed Zappa into the concrete-floored orchestra pit. His band immediately thought he was dead, but ultimately he was left with hideous injuries including a crushed larynx, head trauma, serious fractures and injuries to his back, leg and neck. He was wheelchair bound for a year-and-a-half)**
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