covent garden night market walkabout

Here's the pictures from the Covent Garden Night Market I mentioned in my previous post.  Lots o' good food.

It made me conclude that I miss wholesale mushrooms.  Yes I do.

southbank walkabout

Last week I did a walk around the Southbank with SJ.  Here are some of the pictures from it.  We went to the Covent Garden August Night Market (only on in August) afterwards, but I'll post those pictures later this afternoon since there are a lot.

View on Lambeth Bridge, Parliament on the left, London Eye on the right.

Parliament

'Statue' along Southwark, Tutu Hitler

Massive chair outside National Theatre

Carpets drying outside the National Theatre, maybe for Ralph Fiennes' Oedipus?

View of St. Paul's and the Gherkin

Sand artists

Bohemian sand artist making a frog prince

Steps down to the Thames.  When the tide is in you definitely can't go down...

Interesting rig in the Thames, maybe for a dive?

Art on the Tate Modern

Statue outside St. Paul's that looks like that faun in Pan's Labyrinth.

On to Covent Garden Night Market later...

pay for concerts? bah

so yet again (in the space of 3 weeks) I managed to get some more free concert tickets. I'm starting to think that I have some special music powers when it comes to this...

however, this story is a bit more lengthy. I will do my best.

one of Chloe's friends, who works at Universal Records, called her on Thursday and said that if you were a person in the know, O2 was giving out free tickets to the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, but only to O2 customers. To gain free entry you had to go to an O2 shop and find a random looking guy outside who was giving out the tickets and persuade him that you were a long-time O2 customer who was very worthy of free concert tickets. Chloe went and got two for her and her friend, and then I went and got two more and took a friend from down the road.

We got to the festival around 6pm, but since we were really going to see Hot Chip, that was fine for us since they were just going on. We danced, drank, smuggled in cigarettes and had a merry time (especially once the rain stopped). Later on the same main stage Mark Ronson and Jay-Z played. Ronson was ok, but his show was more about what big names made 'surprise appearances' (like Lily Allen). Whereas, Jay-Z's show was amazing, the crowd loved him and sang along to everything, and was actually a lot more tame than the Radiohead crowd, which I thought was interesting.





Overall, free music and fun times is pretty great!