Kings of leon, Carling Academy, about 2 hours ago

A fairly short set, 1¼ hours; the songs themselves seemed short; the sound quality- poor (as always). The place was a river of crowd surfers, often more than 3 at once getting passed to the front. We got a good view after the start of the set as the girl on the balcony passed out as soon as they started to play. Funny how that happens.
I don’t often go to live rock gigs, and though this was one of the better ones- as far as I could tell, the PA got in the way on that one, that still doesn’t encourage me to go more often. There is a gulf between be & the music, the PA I blame. They don’t seem to have improved in quality over the last 20 years or so. A time span in which my enthusiasm for live-amplified music has never been high. The best live performances I have ever seen have been acoustic sets. This was not.

It wasn’t a bad night out by any means, it’s just a great missed opportunity on their part. The sushi before was excellent as was the coffee at Borders.

But this morning:
Clouds thick/dark/and hormonal=Heavy thinder, 22°C.

On the Ride to work, I have to approach a long hill (more like a ridge) which seemed to attract lots of lightning strikes. This made me nervous "I don’t wanna die"!!
At the top, sheltered in a metal bus-stop while I counted the lightning strikes. The rain was heavy enough to make a bow-wave in the road in front of vehicles. I got back on once the storm was more than a few miles away. the the rain had beaten the storm drains. It was jetting straight up from them – up to knee height in fountains. My feet submerged with each pedal stroke with a sploosh sound. You can’t coast through puddles more than 50 yards long, you’s stop before getting to the other puddle-shore.