Photographs: April 2005 Archives

An excellent day today - lunch in Fulham, followed by the footie - a good first half in which Fulham dominated and which Everton ('Champions League? You're having a laugh') were appaling. The second half was just scrappy with neither side impressive at all.

Then off to the Pitcher and Piano on the Fulham Road for some drinks, with dear old Sam was forced to wear an Etonian school uniform ahead of the groups visit to School Disco in Hammersmith.

Spot the stag

I ducked out of the club, as I was knackered and in fact found myself in bed by 1030pm, I must be getting old....

Back from a nice relaxing weekend in Riga - lovely very pretty city, much like Prague, only smaller and with more Stag Parties!

Some nice pics here.

As you can see - the Societ influence is strong in some of the public monuments, the below stands outside the Museum of Occupation, which serves to remind everyone of the forced Soviet regime which ruled the Baltics post WW2 until the USSR finally collapsed in the early 90s. Seems like a bygone age, but of course it's little more than a decade ago, so almost everyone remembers it...

Thanks to Olga for being such a fab hostess!

Here's a picture of Rob and Me, recently sent by Rob, of us at a pre-launch photo session for Oxygen (107.9FM!) - the radio station we helped launch whilst we were in Oxford.

Amazingly, we thought a picture of two strapping hunks like us would bring the station listeners. No idea why it didn't.

What can I say, we were young, foolish, slightly slimmer and less grey. But then it was 1997, and just before Cool Brittania... hopefully I look better with age. Rob just looks better.

Sean and I were lucky enough to see Queen + Paul Rodgers (former lead singer in Free and Bad Company,) a couple of weeks ago on the first Queen tour since 1986.

We saw them first up in Brixton at the Academy, and went with low expectations, which were pleasantly exceeded. The band played pretty well, but were nervous, the best songs on the night by far were Paul's - the band playing All Right Now, Feel Like Making Love, Can't Get Enough Of Your Love etc. much better than the Queen stuff (in the main).

The two pleasant surprises of the night were Brian singing I Want It All and really pulling it off, and the inclusion of I'm In Love With My Car complete with Rog singing and drumming this live classic at the same time - the boy's still got it!

The downside was the crowd, who seemed surprisingly un-up for it, and the choice of songs, Paul's voice not really being suited for some of the Queen hits - Roger sings Radio Ga Ga, Break Free and Kind of Magic better, and Crazy Little Thing was also a little flat.

However, on the more rocky numbers like The Show Must Go On and Fat Bottom Girls, he seems much happier.

Pics from Brixton are available here.

Paris however was another matter, the band more relaxed, the crowd more up for it and the set list - whilst the same songs - was in a much better order.

The view was better too, I wasn't consigned to the disabled balcony as I was in Brixton (I was on crutches at the time,) and so the pics are also much better.

I especially like these two - I haven't had to edit either of them - they could almost be professional!