2 posts tagged “gigs”

I've just been to my first ever Weightwatchers meeting. Yes, I now have 10 weeks to go until I am supposed to spend three entire days on a horse on and next to mountains, a day in a canoe and multiple other days dragging my backpack around Northern Sweden, and the last thing I want is to be unfit and dumpy for the experience. So this calls for drastic measures. Hence the Weightwatchers meeting, and my new routine of walking 4 miles a day and walking the stairs at Highgate instead of taking the escalator. That's worth mentioning because the stairs at Highgate are so long and high that at the top end of them you can't feel your legs anymore and indeed you can barely see anybody walk up those stairs. People will patiently wait at the bottom of the escalator until it's their turn to go up, no matter how long it takes. And now there is me (usually joined by one superfit person who just sprints them up taking two steps in one and makes you look like a granny in comparison) climbing the stairs next to them.

So, then I thought if I do the health thing I'll do it properly so I joined Weightwatchers. The surprising thing is, it was actually pretty good fun! At the very least I can now see why it works for people because you are forced to 'fess up to your unhealthy habits once a week (and apparently the scales don't lie). The most amusing thing was a huge discussion by some of the people in the group about which is the least-diet-ruining way to get drunk! I like it. So, I'll do this thing to plan, go back next week and see what happens!

Other than that four more days to go till the Sonata Arctica gig which I'm childishly excited about!

On Wednesday I went to my first rock concert in a while, which was great. I am a big fan of metal, especially Scandinavian metal (I just like the melodic style that is played there), so one of my resolutions is to make use of living in London by going to gigs whenever a band I like happens to come to town.

Last week Nightwish (a Finnish symphonic metal band) played three dates at the Astoria and I went to one of them. It was really good fun - great music, great atmosphere, a few not very "metal"-ish white wine spritzers... and deafness for the rest of the night afterwards, as we stood right next to the speakers!

Nightwish

I also dragged along a friend of mine who really liked it. Now, because my music taste isn't exactly mainstream, most people look at my ipod collection and laugh (and that's the more polite ones). So I always feel chuffed when one of my friends listens to "my" music or comes to a gig with me and then ends up enjoying it!