JoCo and P&S
Last night I went to see Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm at the Union Chapel. It’s way too early in the morning for me to put together fully coherent sentences (even if I did just do some proofreading) so I will be brief:
It was rather excellent and the Union Chapel is still my favourite venue in London. It’s not often that an act comes on for an encore, asks the desk to turn off amplification, tells the audience to be really quiet (and to stop making pirate noises for a few minutes) and plays a quiet and beautiful song simply because the acoustics in the venue are so great. I took my camera just in case I got a chance to take some photos and rather than having to be circumspect about shooting I could be quite blatant – if it were the sort of venue or gig were it wouldn’t be allowed then I suspect that half of the audience wouldn’t have been filming and recording it, including the girl at the front with a camera on the stage shooting the gig in time lapse…
I can see Mykreeve and Minifig’s point in their podcast this week that Jonathan Coulton is an artist who is great to see once, but I suspect I may have to go along again next time he’s in town as well.
In other news Daniel Kitson’s playing a couple of shows at the Union Chapel in December. I can’t go, as I’m off to see other comedic things on both nights, but you all should.
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Posted: November 14th, 2009 under blog.