Alfa Mist - Warsaw Łazienki Park (27-06-25)

 Last Friday night at Łazienki Park with Alfa Mist:

Full credit to the band and crowd, despite the incessant rain, this was a great gig.

 

Foreword; Teki; Organic Rust etc., beautiful tunes just flew by, it was so good, I hardly noticed the rain, even found myself jiving around.

 Fantastic musicians and a beautiful setting (saw Judith Hill here last year which I also really enjoyed).

Bubbles Above the Metro

 

Coming back from Alanis Morisette at the Torwar in Warsaw last week, bubbles above the Politechnika Metro station.

 Not often I say it, but I loved the advertisement, it just lit up an ordinary scene.

Small Birds Helping Me Eat My Rice

 

Had the pleasant experience of some small birds helping me to eat my rice at a Vietnamese place in Warsaw.

 Both small birds enjoyed rice like they would bread and kept coming back for more.

 I like the Vietnamese places for the green tea as well as the food, and now the great company.

 

Alanis Morissette - Warsaw Torwar (19th June 2025)

 So glad I finally got round to seeing Alanis Morissette.

 Loved the gig from start to finish, it went by in a flash.

 

The running of a short version of a song into another tune worked a treat (e.g. Sorry 2 Myself into Head Over Feet).

 

And three acoustic tunes (Rest; Mary Jane; Perfect) being done at the mixing desk was a really nice touch.

Favourite tune of the night, that would have to be You Oughta Know (this tune marks the mid-90s for me, living in an attic bedsit in my hometown, Bury, Lancashire, all another lifetime away now).

 

Finally, things being rounded off perfectly with Thank You, hearing this song live had always been on my bucket list (last year, I got to see Chris Isaak do Wicked Game live, certain songs are just on my bucket list)

 Yeah, a truly wonderful evening, overall.

Mint Cider in Warsaw

 Somehow ended up drinking mint cider in Warsaw. 

As expected, it was very fresh tasting, not bad at all. 

My One Concert from May

 Only went to one concert in (late) May but it was a cracker:

 

Cool Cool Cool (with Julie Slick) opening with a five-song set (would've liked to have heard much more, as the band was fantastic.

Then after the opening set, Cool Cool Cool (and Julie Slick) joined Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew on stage for a nice evening of Talking Heads classics (Psycho Killer; Take Me To The River; Life During Wartime etc.)

Plus the King Crimson (Mark II) classic, Thela Hun Ginjeet, an incredible song.

Yeah, this was a nice Sunday evening out at the Progresja in Warsaw on 25th May.

Sheltered from the Hailstorm

 While in Eastern Poland, I got caught in hailstorm, you can see the stuff bouncing off the road above.

Thankfully, a bus shelter was just across the road:

 It was just big enough to offer shelter, and small enough to feel part of the storm:

 Ten minutes of raw weather excitement or so.

Turning over the Compost Heap

 The compost heap while being turned over with a rake.

Should help to provide good nutrition for the garden.

An apple tree looking in early bloom:

Small Bird on the Window Sill

 A small bird on the window sill outside the bathroom window, hoping to make a nest during springtime.

Apple Orchard Amidst Yellow-Flowered Fields

 Some nice shots from a small orchard in springtime Eastern Poland.

 Thankfully, a professional gardener has given the place a kiss of life.

 It was great seeing the apple blossom with the yellow-flowered fields in the background.

 The fields of yellow flowers are for local margarine production.

Hopefully, there'll be a decent yield of apples in August/early September.

Bear McCreary - Warsaw Progresja (21-04-2025)

 A few nice shots from the Bear McCreary concert at Warsaw Progresja last Monday:

This gig was a fantastic audio-visual experience.

Bear McCreary and his great band provided a perfect balance of material from McCreary's film/video game tunes and recent Rock album, The Singularity.

From The Singularity, the standout tunes, for me, were Tatarigami; The End of Tomorrow; and, of course, Tears for the Dead Life'.

From the film tunes, Dance of the Druids was amazing.

In fact, everything was amazing on a great night.

Class musicians on stage with two completely different kinds of singers (Brendan McCreary and Morgan Sorne), this worked really well.

And, of course, a great finale with Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult = one of my favourite bands, have been blessed to see them quite a few times).

 Bear McCreary and his band taking thoroughly deserved rounds of applause at the end of the gig:

 Came out of this gig feeling really uplifted, in the night-time air.

Another Buckwheat Meal

Yet another buckwheat meal.

This time, with cottage cheese accompanying chick peas, cherry tomatoes, green olives, camembert cheese, and of course, the tried and trusted, buckwheat.

Palm Sunday 2025

 

Inside a Catholic church in Warsaw on Palm Sunday 2025.

 

The windows around the church show Christ's journey to Calvary, upcoming Easter:

 

  The Stations of the Cross:

 

It's good to be reminded of the real meaning of Easter, of course.

My April Wine Tour T-Shirt

Very rarely buy tour t-shirts but made an exception for April Wine (after waiting for many years to see them).

Was happy to see that the back of the t-shirt was full of tour dates:

The setting where I saw April Wine (with Uriah Heep and Tyketto), Manchester Bridgewater Hall, was brilliant:

The sound quality for all three bands was fantastic.

Healthy Buckwheat Meal

My healthy buckwheat meal here, with beetroot, chick peas, camembert cheese, and olives.