rosamund plays piano

sean has been in touch;

'We imagine that as an occasional participant in bourgeois politics (without illusions, naturally), horsemouth welcomes the jezbollah victory in the labour leadership contest. Of course its entertaining - one day in and the claims of a risk to national security are already piling up, and blairbrownistas are resigning en masse from jobs they haven't even been offered yet (twats) But give it a couple of years and corbynomics - the use of state institutions to bypass a dysfunctional banking system in order to invest in production directly - will start to appeal to members of the ruling class as a solution to deepening crisis and survival in the face of a more combative proletariat. Ok, that bit about a more combative proletariat might be a slight exaggeration - just a bit! - but you know what I'm getting at....' 

last night horsemouth went out to see laura cannell play at cafe oto. he was a little early getting there (what it is to live in a city with efficient mass transit) so he wandered down ridley road market and heard the last tune by solution sound system - they kept promising another but it hadn't materialised by the time horsemouth wandered off. he bumped into one of laura's old friends who lies down near the nags head. he saw scottish johnny (johnny reggae) through the crowd.

he then wandered round the corner and hid in the (re-located) arcola theatre bar until john clarkson arrived. angharad davies was up first overbowed violin, delicate harmonics, oliver coates (cello) was up next - a short piece and then a long repetitive piece (about 25 minutes in length), then laura cannell playing tracks from her first album and her new album (alternating under bowed violin and recorders)and then a short piece by a quartet of the musicians (sorry third violinist dude horsemouth did not catch your name) - this last line up made a fine old racket.

horsemouth last saw laura cannell play in the fishermen's chapel in leigh (which he thought was a slightly better gig to be honest). on the way back the overground through hackney central was out (due to planned track maintenance) though there was a replacement bus service - horsemouth took the branch down through shadwell and back on the seaside towns light tramway instead. he hasn't mentioned that to get to the grandmaster flash gig he made use of the interchange between hackney central and hackney downs (there it only took them 30 years to build a corridor).

in middlemarch rosamund has just played the piano and sung - she plays the piano well, she sings adequately, george eliot seems to distrust sound describing its emotional effects as echoes - as something not really there. horsemouth watched footage of a friend jumping off a bridge into a river for fun - its what he remembers about her, her adventurous spirit. it made him tidy up his flat and do the washing up.