Saw KT Tunstall in Bristol last night. Surpisingly good (although it had to be, her parents were in the audience..., she quipped that she had to prove that the fortune they'd spent on piano lessons was a worthwhile investment, I'd say 500,000 sales of her album proves this!)
What a talented, yet surprisingly diminutive, individual, not only does she have an amazing voice to accompany her guitar playing skills, but the also hit's the ivories pretty good, and gave us some impressive beats on the drum-kit. Her band were pretty acomplished too, not often you see a double-bass and a cello at these gigs... (Except maybe when Lemon Jelly's Fred Deakin takes up the Cello on-stage.), by the end, the drummer was drumming with a pair of maracas, I sight which caused us great amusement for some reason... maybe it was the Grolsch.
Decided to rip up the Twilight Zone pin at the weekend, it's fairly grimy... expect pics when I run out of nature ones from my recent trip.
I love this rock, the colourful lichen, and the pitted holes, LJ crouched down to look thru at me laying on the floor trying to get a good angle. (As an aside: I have been reading a book called "learning to see creatively", so far, from what I can gather, I need to crawl around on the floor in the dirt... I think I need to read more chapters... :) Anyhow, she peeped thru at me and I had to take a pic.
I love trees, so hard to take an interesting photo of something everyone sees all the time, I've taken some before at Westonbirt Arboretum, laid on my back, trying to emphasize the scale. This one's beautifully twisted, all the way up, like some force was tweaking it as it grew up.
Those of you who know me of old, will know that I used (ha!) to be a maths nerd, well into my chaos theory and other stuff - I still love to see mathematical shapes in nature - so heres an example of subdivision/recursion and of spiral.
I'll go full circle back from nature to KT Tunstall, by pointing out that she's a great beleiver in carbon neutrality. At it's simplest level, planting trees to offset the CO2 emmissions made by creating the album and flying around the world to promote it. I'm not gonna go off on a green-rant here, though I urge you to google if you're interested.
I'm off to hug a tree... Peace Out
- Hippy-Malc ;)
