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The First Fifteen Years – LGMC in concert

Last night I went to see the London Gay Men’s Chorus perform their first big show of the year. What a blast!

The show was at Cadogan Hall, and I had planned on just turning up on the night, and buying a ticket. In the end, the place looked almost sold out, so it was lucky that Liam offered me a spare ticket he had during the afternoon. Not only did he guarantee I turned up (thank you!), I also had a great seat.

If you’ve not seen the LGMC, they are an incredibly polished bunch of performers, who obviously take great pride in putting on a high quality show. They then couple this with a hugely infectious enthusiasm, which reminds me each time why I go and see them. Choir’s, after all, are not my regular taste in music.

Mind you, they seem to be turning me into a convert, and I now have some favourites, two of which were in the show – Rhythm of Life and Our Time.

If you’ve not seen them before, they are on again in London and Cardiff (among other places) this year. Highly recommended!

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Your Host

Your host! The photos of me on this website are a bit old, so the picture on the left is a stab at correcting that!

I don’t often appear in my own albums, since the camera is usually in my hands. So I spent a pleasant couple of hours on Sunday with Jason as he took about 300 pics. After some brutal editing, the profiles I have elsewhere now feature 4 new pics!

I’m not sure about the iPhoto image manipulation I did to the image – it has gained a bit of a sepia tint, without actually pressing that button. However, I have added a free tan, just in time for summer!

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Goodbye Friends Reunited

For a few years (Since Aug 01 my profile claimed) I’ve been a member of Friends Reunited. When I signed up it was free to receive messages, and you paid to send them, which seemed like a fair deal.

As I learned last year, when an old schoolfriend contacted me, you now have to pay to receive messages too. Now, the money isn’t much – £7.50 – but it leaves a bitter taste to be obliged to pay to receive a message that my friend also paid to send. I also no longer see the sense in messaging people via the site, since you can’t tell if the recipient has already paid, or whether the message you send will oblige them to fork out. That seems plain rude.

Over the years, I think the website has become slow and ugly, and I’ve realised that with my (fairly) unique surname, I’m pretty easy to find on Google.

So, if you were in my year at school – in Coventry or Clacton – and you remember me from then, feel free to get in touch.

In the meantime, it’s goodbye to my friends reunited profile!