Music is energy, gives power. Music heals. Music is.
(And Scottish girls are.... mindblowing.)
De songs, de performance, de humor, de vibes. Ik stond erbij en keek ernaar. KT, klasse, op eenzame hoogte.
The best gift is a present full of music.
I just looooooove scottish accents... and humour.
Uit KT's diary http://www.kttunstall.com/diary/
Sunday, March 30th. Just Back from Singapore
Yyeeeeeee-haaaaarrr!! Top dog month. Apart from getting some rays, saw amazing places, ate some really weird food, had a brilliant laugh with the band and discovered that Singaporeans are possibly the friendliest race of people on the planet. All the festies and gigs went great, and I have come home a total Wilco obsessive. We saw them play at the Enmore in Sydney the night before we played it (it’s well odd knowing you’re on the same stage the next night – it looks so huge and fancy, and i kept thinking ‘surely I’m going to look reeeally small up there’, but no-one started chanting “HO-BBIT! HO-BBIT” thankfully.) We also watched them at the New Zealand Bluesfest which was a much smaller affair and they were just mindblowingly good…Had a pretty amusing heckle at one gig where a guy just kept shouting “Hopeless! Hopeless!” inbetween every song, and I had to finally say, “Dude! Some people here don’t know that song! It’s not a cool thing to shout at us man!”Byron Bay was indeed gorgeous and seriously all-round lefty, we even saw a guy who looked like a Hawaiian Bono scattering peatals in the ocean at sunrise…we heard a bird that has a call the same as the ‘For Auld Lang Syne My Dear’ line, and the bird that they ripped off for the green man/safe to cross the road noise, which sounds like a laser gun. We sat in the Botanical Gardens in Sydney and watched all the bats wake up – I’m serious these things are foxes with daddy seagull wingspans…check this site outhttp://www.sydneybats.org.au/cms/And try and tell me you don’t just love the little fellow in the top right hand corner…I mean, what a website! There is even a ‘bat facts’ section! Heaven.We got a huge treat leaving Singapore when 20 fans and forumers came to the airport to sing us off – I’ll be posting a video asap! I read on the forum that one of them had had a dream that they brought guitars and sung their own version of Little Favours that went:Don’t go too far awayAnd hold us close to your heartDo us just this Little FavourFor we doYes we do love youSo they only went and bloody did it! Bloody lovely, we were all nearly blubbing. However, I’m not going to encourage all organised fans to come and act out their dreams in my presence, some of you will definitley get arrested I imagine.Oh, another thing you should check out, courtesy of the Guardian website:Article on LOFAR ‘...By connecting banks of detectors in fields across Britain, France, Holland, Sweden and Germany, astronomers aim to create a radio telescope that will have the accuracy of a machine the size of Europe. They believe it could solve some of the universe’s most important secrets – including the discovery of radio broadcasts from intelligent extraterrestrials.‘This system works by collecting radio waves over a range of frequencies,’ said cosmologist Robert Nichol of Portsmouth University. ‘Some of these signals will reveal information about the early universe, for example. However, broadcasts by alien intelligences would also be revealed by our computers because we will, primarily, be collecting radio signals. Signals that have regular patterns will give themselves away as the possible handiwork of extraterrestrials’.The project – known as Lofar (low frequency array) – was launched in Holland several years ago, but has attracted the attention of other European astronomers. All have agreed to build their own banks of detectors, which can then be linked to those in Holland. Several sites for Britain’s first array are being considered, although most scientists expect it to be built at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, where the giant radio dish is threatened with closure because of funding cuts. By building the Lofar antenna, which represents the future of radio astronomy, ground-breaking research can continue at the site, say scientists.Lofar uses a very different approach. ‘Instead of moving a huge dish around the sky and pointing it at a star or galaxy or nebula, you simply cover a field with sheets of metal. The metal will pick up radio waves from all over the sky’.‘We will be looking for all sorts of different things with Lofar,’ added Nichol. ‘We will make surveys of the skies to look for unexpected events; for things that go bump in the night, as it were. We will also be able to study the universe’s childhood years. We know a lot about the Big Bang, when the universe was created 13 billion years ago, and a lot about it now. But its early childhood years, around 500 million years after the Big Bang, remain a mystery.’COOM OOOOONN!!!!Big love & see you at a gig,KT xxx
Posted by KT on the 30th March, 2008
