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‘LETS GO TO WORK!’
Directed by Lindsay Charrington
Produced by Adrian Cooke
Tonight is the opening of Reservoir Cats, the latest play by the Theatre Knights, a subsidiary of the Knights of the Round Table arts collective. A spin-off of the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs, ‘Cats’ sports an all-female cast in this very unique, Northern Irish take.
The Knights of the Round Table was founded in 2005 by Thomas L Muinzer to “encourage the individual development of of all artistic genres, but also to encourage the idea of bringing separate genres together.”
In my mind this is a great version of the original film, the cast play the parts brilliantly, interacting with the audience and the auditorium as well as making the audience think about the male and female roles in such a performance.
Profits from the production are donated to the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre. The play runs until Fri 16th May
As I approached the Ormeau Bridge this morning a very eggy smell made its way up my nostrils. Looking down, the bands of the were as low as I remember ever seeing them; muddy, dark and devoid of life, with a traffic cone or two and I’m sure a shopping trolley somewhere could be found somewhere down as the river meandered through the city.
As I walked across the bridge on my way to work I thought about the Lagan Weir and how it was designed to “keep the river at an artificially constant level” through “a series of massive steel barriers which are raised as the tide retreats.” Maybe they took the bank holiday off too.
The water quality of the river was poor due to several factors:
- There was a large amount of “domestic” pollution entering the river system from an outdated sewage system
- Poor intermixing of the fresh water from upstream with the denser seawater from Belfast Lough.
- Nitrates contained in the fresh water.
- The Lagan’s water level varied by three metres between high and low tide so that at low tide unsightly smelly mud flats were exposed as far up the river as the Ormeau embankment.
And who wouldn’t want the opportunity to enjoy such great weather rather than go to work. Not so good for the runners (and walkers) of the Belfast City Marathon, who must have had a hard time staying dehydrated as they struggled through the 26.2mile journey.
Great weather for spectators on the other hand, watching from the sidelines, or the front of the local pub.
Inside the Errigle on this very fine afternoon was Matt McGinn and his band playing some classics to those enjoying the day off work and those resting their muscles from their run.
The weather has just been amazing for the last few days, and I do hope it continues. All I want to do is sit in the sun, with plenty of sun cream of course!
Thanks to Andy for my new blog design :)
It’s been a while since I went to a club and drank many alcoholic beverages into the early hours of the morning. Having had a taste of just that the other night, not so much in the alcohol consumption but in the atmosphere and drink consumed by the free spirits all around me - including the occasional fantastically attractive female.
Those nights are always nice. It’s fun to go a bit crazy every now and then, though right now it seems I’m not able to do it, or in the mood quite often. It feels great to be busy, sometimes it feels great to be tired, because it’s tiredness from doing what I love.
It’s the weekend. Go nuts!
That was no mob! A pitiful performance! You should be ashamed of yourselves - those who didn’t make the effort. Its a team effort people!
In this photo are a few of the mobsters.
Here is all the space available for potential mobsters
Those who were there were awesome! A small group, who gathered afterwards, included Duke Special who was just passing through after getting a Costa Coffee (seen below just leaving), discussed future plans in a very mob-like manner.
Next time will be better.
TODAY Flash Mob gathering in Belfast
Victoria Square ground floor
1pm
Like this, only more people - hopefully.
It may not be quite so populated as London’s Flash Mob on Friday 11th April, but we can try.
It was like putting on a pair of glasses for the first time. I don’t wear glasses, so it was like putting on a pair of glasses when my eyesight is 20:20 and seeing everything totally distorted - only in reverse. In a good way.
A new lens. I got a nice pretty new lens. The weather has been amazing the last few days. Here are a few photographs from my first trip with pretty new lens.
SNAP! Screening a series of short documentaries from FourDocs and 3 Minute Wonder.
Thursday 27th March 2008
The Drawing Office, Titanic Quarter, 2 Queen’s Road, Queens Island, Belfast [MAP]
Doors open 7pm, screening at 8pm
Free admission
Part One
3MW: Mouthing Off: Scoring (Ken Wardrop)3MW: Lee Kern’s A-Z of London: Love (Lee Kern)
4Docs: Kebab (Khaldoon Ahmed)
4Docs: Rose Thieves (Jane Cheadle)
3MW: Little Worlds: Maria’s Story (Sally Hewitt)
4Docs: Flora and Thieves (Xanthe Hamilton)
4Docs: I Remember Lebanon (Zenia Aboul Hosn)
Part Two
3MW: People in Order: Age 1-100 (James Price & Lenka Clayton)3MW: WarTorn Stories of separation: Anna & Rissell (David Modell)
4Docs: Twenty Lenghts (Katie Barlow)
3MW: Beside the Seaside: Ice-cream (Julie Moggan)
4Docs: Weston Super Mare (Dan Blore)
3MW: Preparing for the Worst - Gordon Francis (James Caddick)
4Docs: Country Commute (Robin Field)
Recently I’ve been working with local promotion company Moving On Music, who specialise in classical, traditional, world, rock and jazz music.
MOM are putting on a mini-festival in the Black Box from today, 26th March, to Sunday 30th March, encompassing many great musicians, as well as film screenings before each show.
In the Café, however, a selection of my photographs, taken at Moving On Music events, are on display throughout the festival.
If you are in Belfast it would be great if you could stop by and have a look, maybe even get a bite to eat - they do a good lunch.
For full details on the festival programme click here
A random photo from the archives.
This photograph was taken on this day in 2006
This week went quite quickly, coming to an end that was well worth the wait.
After work on Friday I purchased a 15-inch Macbook Pro from the Apple Store. This I am very excited about. It will be an interesting transition period from XP to Mac though hopefully it will go smoothly. I have lots of questions, which Andy has answered for me recently, and I’m sure I will have many more when it arrives. So more on this then.
Later than evening I headed to the City Church hall above Common Grounds Café for an evening of Bollywood fund raising for a trip to India. On the bill were some Bollywood dancers, whose dancing skills were quite mesmerising, Kitty and the Can Openers and Captain Kennedy.
Kitty and the Can Openers
Captain Kennedy
