Last weekend

Remember how I keep on telling you what a bad blogger I am? Here's some more proof. A whole week later I have decided to tell you about what I got up to last weekend. Maybe next week I will tell you about this weekend. So the London Festival of Architecture is on. It lasts about three weeks. I went to see some things the weekend before, and I went to see some more things last weekend, (and this weekend too). Exhibitions, actions and events in parks and squares, architectural practices letting you visit and showing you around. Last Saturday night I went to an indie concert in a little pub in Farrington. You know the sort of concert where it's you and the bands's closest friends. We went because the headliners, the Occasional Flicker's, are a greek indie band - based in Edinburgh - are kind of known in the greek indie circuit. Which isn't hard to do. There are so few bands, that we know them all. They aren't a bad little band, with some nice tunes. The singer has the strongest greek accent though!

Opening acts were John Collins that tried his best to make interesting and engaging banter, but wasn't really my thing, and another scottish band, Spaghetti Anywhere. No, unfortunately, there were no spaghetti western references in their music. I was very disappointed. They were a typical miserable scottish indie band. (There is only one Belle and Sebastian!) The singer had an interesting voice, if they just wrote some more interesting melodies...

Hear that accent? Because I can never resist a scottish accent (any scots on my flist?), I drank a pint of cider, screwed up my courage and chatted up the singer a bit after the gig. He was a very nice guy, we had the typical awkward conversation you have with a fellow indie person... I spent the night with my sister and her boyfriend in Wimbledon. I slept in their south-african room-mates empty bed - he was on holiday. And next day I went to an architectural walk organised by Atkins - a very big architectural and engineering company. The walk was led by one of their senior architects and was very enjoyable. One of the best things I've been on in this festival. That and the Developing City exhibition in the Walbrook Building (just opposite Cannon Street Station). If you live in London, are interested in the history of the City and like big well made models of buildings, you should check the exhibition out! It's free and open until the 9th of September, except Mondays.