Gratuitous totty shot? As if. Happy 30th birthday today to Ansel Elgort [whose name actually sounds like an anagram]!
Another "snippets" post today, dear reader...
- Good news: One of our favourite shows on radio Friday Night is Music Night - the world's longest-running live orchestral music radio programme - [which was unceremoniously moved to Sundays, and then surreptitiously killed-off last November by the gnomes at BBC Radio 2] will be revived by Auntie Beeb's classical station Radio 3 this April! I cannot wait...
- Dancing in a muddy field news: Dua Lipa (yawn), Coldplay (even bigger yawn!) and SZA (nope, not a clue; sounds like an energy drink) have been announced as headliners at this year's Glastonbury Festival. Even the news that Shania Twain will be taking the closing top-of-the bill "Legends" slot, or the fact that Cyndi Lauper's there as well (for the first time), would ever tempt me to go - even if the tickets hadn't sold-out completely within half an hour of being put on sale last Autumn!
- More muck news: The UK is apparently in the middle of National Compost Week, which is literally a load of old crap. Recycled by worms, of course.
- More good news: Our "house band" here at Dolores Delargo Towers, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox are back in the UK this May, and - thanks to a Ticketmaster voucher card from Baby Steve and Houseboy Alex for my 60th last year - Madam Arcati and I have booked to go and see them live at the prestigious London Palladium!
- And, finally: Maverick Soho members' club The Groucho [named after the Groucho Marx quote: “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”], second home of the likes of Terry Pratchett, Francis Bacon, Jeffrey Bernard, Jarvis Cocker, Anthony Bourdain, Lily Allen, Melvyn Bragg, Blur’s Alex James, Rachel Weisz, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Robbie Coltrane, Nick Grimshaw, Stephen Fry, Julie Burchill and even Harry Styles - which we were honoured to visit way back in 2009 - has opened its very first "out-of-town" outpost near Wakefield in Yorkshire!
And the weather? More Spring-like than it has been in ages...
Ansel Elgort should be forced by law to perform gay porn.
ReplyDeleteI concur. I'll start petitioning my MP. Jx
DeleteAs I type... Mr Bradlee is massaging our ears. And National Compost Week...are you confusing that with a General Election? No matter...my wine is chilled, I went to an orchid show (and made a smallish) purchase and Mt Bradlee is on our radio... Putin? Trump? pfft
ReplyDeleteOh, we in the UK will be going through that "compost" later this year when the election is called. Not sure which shit smells worse...
DeletePostmodern Jukebox are a fantastically talented assemblage of performers - can't wait to see them live! Jx
Hooray for 'Friday Night is Music Night' and Hooray for 'Radio 3'.
ReplyDeleteRoll on Postmodern Jukebox at the London Palladium.
Happy 30th birthday today to Ansel Elgort (such a sweet boy)
So much to celebrate! Mr Elgort would be the icing on the cake... Jx
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