Soiree

Having started work and cycling from south west London to way out east I seem to have no time to fit gigs into my busy schedule. Ah well a few coming up. My fast was broken by a soiree invitation from Anna and Rob in their lovely apartment overlooking Old Man Thames between Wandsworth and Putney bridges. Entertainment provided by Aksel Kolstad billed as a Scandanavian comedic classical pianist with traditional Norwegian sausages to follow. Not having found much classical music that I liked and not having met many funny Scandanavians I had my reservations and thought I'd better eat beforehand. However, Aksel was very entertaining taking turns in telling anecdotal jokes and brilliantly tinkling the ivories. And there was a bowl of nuts and licorice. Lots of interesting folk were gathered including Aksel's parents - dad Russian born educated at Turkish Jesuit school speaks 12 languages fluently and links to Q. Better say no more. Towards the end of the evening our presence was Grace-d by Ms Jones who lapped up the attention then played us demos from new tunes she's working on. The following is for you Matt...



http://akselkolstad.com/

And for those with less sophisticated tastes here's something which I'm sure Aksel would appreciate...




I think I need to get along to some rock and roll...