Week 28 – Hyde Park & Konk
by Frank Hamilton
You, Your Tat & Me. (This. Is. Mental.)
Elton John pulled out (so we got to play).
Writing the set-list on the Victoria line…
Getting ready to go onstage at Hyde Park.
‘While there’s air in my lungs and there’s feet in my shoes’.
Just played Hyde Park w/ Elvis Costello, Ray Davies etc. #OverIt
Watching Elvis Costello. What a guy.
She reads books, I write stories… (w/ Lauren Aquilina)
Managed to blag my mum past security to watch Ray Davies from the tower 🙂
…she drank too much sprite and started imitating the Queen!
The next day, en route to Konk Studios (Ray Davies gaff)…
Introducing Mister Ollie Davies on kit!
…and Mister Richard Wilkinson in the hot seat.
Ich spiele tischtennis.
#HealthAndSafety
Working hard (on Facebook).
6 packets of crisps. That’s 1480 calories of fried potato.
Listening back.
Cables and ting.
This Time Last Year:
Week 28 – Holding On. This one tends to come up in interviews when I get asked the old “were there any weeks when you were really struggling?” question. I didn’t start writing it until 4pm on the Thursday (before releasing it on the Friday) and while I think that shows, I still really love something about it. As ever, here’s the blog… and here’s the song: