Originally posted by raintown boy:
Hey Lory,
I've been in London a fair few times and it is a pretty cool place. I was last there in October and in a few short days saw Spamalot, Wicked, A Voyage Round My Father with the brillian Derek Jakobi, and the New York Dolls with Glen Matlock's new band supporting alongside the Towers of London. Not too sure about the latter - they seemed like a heavy metal-by-numbers boy band to me. We also saw George Foreman in Trafalgar Square, Nigel Kennedy on the Tube, and Jonathon Ross in Forbidden Planet. There's not many places where you can have such a mixed-variety of experiences like that.
I'm from Glasgow (though currently living in Aberdeen), which has a reputation for being full of nutters and religious bigotry, but it's also the place where the British Labour movement was kick-started (with tanks in George Square), and where some great ships were built - including (I think - I shoud really check my facts) the Queen Mary which I believe is now docked in California. We also gave the world Donovan and Lulu. Do any of those on the other side of the Atlantic remember Donovan and Lulu? Douglas Coupland mentions the fiesty wee songstress in his latest novel, Jpods.
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