Greetings from London!
Today marks two weeks that I’ve been in Europe. First on holiday in Spain, now this week working in London and Paris. Although I would still say there is no place like home in the canyon, I could easily live in Spain for a month of any year. The atmosphere is laid back like California and the food and climate suit us Sidels just fine.
Yesterday I made the rounds in London and ended a gorgeous English summer afternoon at Hyde Park for a big Strokes/Beck show. I really enjoy working with The Strokes. Not only do I firmly believe they are one of the few great rock bands of this new century, I find them to have a family vibe. They are cool and nice people—artists as opposed to posers—and I feel most at home around artists.
Leading up to this gig I found myself on holiday and listening to way less music than I’m used to. What I did listen to was a healthy playlist of some of my favorite British songwriters from the last couple of decades. Not sure why, but British songs seemed to be appealing. This week’s Idelic hour is basically a mix of those bands with a taste of who was played last night in Hyde Park.
What a night. Funny, when the sun comes out in Britain, it makes me think of Shakespeare’s A Mid Summer Night’s Dream.
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say “Behold!”
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
The Idelic Hit of the Week:
FFS – Johnny Delusional
Your Idelic host making the scene @hydepark.
