Gav’s Blog – Gavin Hudson’s Blog

Hey hey kids!

Hope you’re all well – would be good to hear from you, tell me what you’re up to?

Well, what have I been doing?  More of the same – it’s been pretty nice weather out here, even though winter is on it’s way (allegedly) and we’ve had something like the driest May on record for Sydney.  Well, what were they going to do about it to ease the plight of the poor farmers in drought?  It seems my bit of Manchester charm wore off with the 13 days of rain we had in April (the most consecutive days since 1931, the poor dears!  I hardly noticed, it was just a few showers!) so they needed import some new rain gods from the home of drizzle, Manchester.

Electro Indie Dance Music rain gods to be precise.  Called The Whip.

For anyone who haven’t seen The Whip yet, you’d be well advised to check out their vids on YouTube – the video from D:Percussion last year should give you a good feeling for it.  I can highly recommend the album to – X Marks Destination, with the singles Muzzle #1, Blackout, Sister Siam and the song everyone has been singing – Trash.  I wanna be Trash!

I started the day off with a raging hangover thanks to the party the night before, but soon cracked on and got over to the Manly Food and Wine festival (Manly being a place, rather then “not effeminate”). Met up with Ruth there and also John from my work and his missus, Nicky. We had a thoroughly pleasant afternoon drinking good fizzy wine in the sunshine and eating cheese. Fact of the day goes to Nicky – she’s got a Diploma in Cheese! Which I thought was pretty special. Apparently only Gorgonzola naturally goes blue, other cheeses need something doing to them. I dunno.

Anyway, then onto Mosman rugby club, narrowly avoiding a slumber party hosted by a bunch of 17 year old girls. I said I’d be back next year. Then down to the Oxford Arts Factory in Darlinghurst for the gig. They weren’t on until about midnight, but it was a real good gig – The Whip are a bit like Hot Chip I suppose, but they do a good set with plenty of energy. And they’ve got a chick on the drums, which always helps.

Being a fellow Manc, we had a bit of a chat afterwards, apparently I made mates with some dude who used to be in Hollyoaks but is now in Emmerdale – can’t say I remember thought! I do remember being rather impressed by the artistic installation in the bar (indeed the bar itself too – I’d definitely go there again) which consisted of a load of electronic puppies with blood round their mouths, after eating the whelp of the pack. Sounded a bit mental, but looked good!

I had a real good night, and will shortly be getting the pics up here somewhere, they’re on Facebook at the moment!

To be fair I didn’t feel to clever yesterday, with a hangover the size of a planet, and couldn’t eat my rather nice Sunday roast that we went for.

Oh, and to top it all off – yes, it’s been raining for 2 days!

Just because I’ve heard these two lately inbetween listening to Tiesto on my iPod. I blame the fact we’ve had Heart FM on the radio at work on the other side of the office.

Firstly, we have the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, now Yousuf.

And thinking about people who have died early, bearing in mind Heath Ledger’s death, here’s Jeff Buckley with his version of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.
Watch Jeff Buckley on YouTube
Simply haunting.Oh, and while you’re here – a few more photos for you on the right in my Flickr stream. They’ll get better when I get a camera in Hong Kong!

Hello.

I’m going to deny all knowledge of this post, so don’t try and prove it’s here. I might even delete it.

Confession – I went to watch Take That on Saturday at the Manchester Evening News Arena with my Mum, my sister Vicky, and my cousins Olivia and Lauren. Is there any way to spend a less manly Saturday evening?

Well, I actually, I quite enjoyed it – I always like going to see things live – Comedy, sport, music, theatre, animals; and this was no different. The whole arena was lit up with the flashing bunny ears worn by approximately 12 thousand of the 14 thousand strong crowd which resembled one giant hen party! The show was a great spectacle anyway, and the lazers were awesome.

Anyway, that’s that over with, so I can just wish you all (both people who will be reading this) a very happy Christmas! I’m off to get bladdered and to go to work (hopefully at the same time) so I’ll catch you later.

Oh, in case you were wondering, I didn’t have flashing bunny ears.

I had glowsticks. :-S

“Do you remember, your house was very small, with woodchip on the wall?” as Jarvis Cocker said.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the bloody woodchip was still on Jennifer’s wall when he went to meet her in the year 2000. I suspect that the woodchip on the wall of my bathroom has been there since this place was built in 1897. It’s a right bugger to get off, make no mistake. Luckily, I’ve got hold of a steamer, which makes life a bit easier, but it’s still a bastard.

I’ve been meaning to get the bathroom refurbished for about 2 years now, and I finally choose to do so when Jenny leaves. She’s found out and isn’t best pleased – she had to live with a crap bath for 2.5 years, and now the week after she leaves I get it sorted. It wasn’t intentional, just that the estate agent came round, said I should get a new bathroom and that he’d just had one done. So I’m using his mate, and it’s costing £500 for all the labour, which isn’t bad – it’ll take about a week I would think. Just need to buy bath, tiles and all that gubbins now!