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A great gig! I’ve really wanted to see them for a while and they didn’t dissapoint. They had a lot of people on stage, lots of instruments and really entertained the crowd. Brilliant, beatiful songs too.

The venue is a strange place though. It’s high on a hill in the middle of some park land (Alexandra Park?) near Wood Green. It has great views over the city but the building is just a random brick big thing. I’m not too sure what it’s trying to be but it’s certainly not a palace.

The inside is bizarre too. The foyer is huge with palm trees everywhere. (I somehow missed these on the way in, perhaps from overexcitment). The entrances to the arena are along the side and we entered near the stage so we really had to push through to get near the middle. My advice would be to enter nearer the back, go to the far side and make your way quickly to the front. Apparently it is much less dense on the right and you can get up close.

Oh and I’ve just found out the cool kids call it ‘Alley Pally’.

Alley Pally Wikipedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Palace

Another Saturday, another trip to a London museum! :-D

The Natural History Museum is great. It is right next-door to the Science Museum in South Kensington and is a huge brick building decorated with gargoyles. As you walk in the entrance you are greeted by an amazing skeleton (or cast of a skeleton).

Highlights:

The dinosaur section is very much worth the queue. It contains a three quarters scale moving T-Rex towards the end which (using a little imagination) is actually quite scary.

The section of a Giant Sequioa tree is pretty impressive as are the photos next to it.

The mammal area is great and complete with full size model of a blue whale. It’s huge!

The best thing is that despite spending a good few hours there I think I only saw about a quarter of the exhibitions. Definitely worth another visit!

Last night went to watch the Lord of the Rings show at Drury Lane Theatre (near Covent Garden).

I definitely think it is better as a film or a book but it converted to the theatre well. The set was very impressive and some of the production was fantastic. Golum was good and there was a great scene wtih him swimming down to get the ring.

The songs seemed bit unnecessary at times but the singing was very good. The best bit was the orks roaming the audience during the interval which really was pretty scary.

Overall, a good show but not as engrossing as it could have been.

LOTR show website - http://www.lotr.com/