Saturday night

I was transformed back into the dancing Queen - young and sweet only 17..... Well, it certainly felt that way again even though of course the age was just a little bit out! We had such a great evening. Yes, it was a little bit 'naf', a little 'cheesey' and perhaps teensy bit 'camp' even but my goodness it was FUN!
Every single person was UP on their feet - hands waving, endorphins doing their stuff and at the end of the evening most people left with a huge
SMILE on their faces.

I LOVED it - regular readers will know that my secret has already been outed - I am an ABBA fan and I say "Thank you for the Music" and will do for as long as their songs are around.

An evening out

Last night Mr SE and I went out to the beautiful Regent Theatre in Melbourne.... A majestic building which was first opened in 1929.... A photograph of the decadent interior - which was apparently based on the lavish interior of the Capitol Theatre in New York .......

And this is what we went to see :

We took dearest niece and her Australian man .... (overheard at half time - 'Yes, but I am still not quite sure what a Jellicle Cat is?"......)

No, neither am I if I am honest - a figment of T.S. Eliot's wonderful imagination really - but what spectacular physical theatre it makes, brought to life by Andrew Lloyd-Webber's genius - a real show of energy and musicality with fabulous choreography..... It has lost none of the magic since I first saw it a month or two after it first opened in London in 1981.

Now, I really cannot believe that was nearly 30 years ago. Honestly, where does the time go? Needless to say we all had a wonderful evening and this morning we were still singing and humming all the songs over again.

Josh Pyke

Josh Pyke is an Australian singer/songwriter of great talent... He comes from Sydney and was in his first band by the age of 12.... In 2005 he signed with Australian record label Ivy League Records and realeased his debut album 'Memories and Dust' in March 2007... His second Album 'Chimmneys Afire' is the one from which this lovely song is from - 'The Summer'.... (the link will take you to YouTube) - Watch, listen and enjoy... And if you live in UK and you would like to see him he is touring there this month ... http://www.joshpyke.com.au/ for more details.

I think he's great.

Had a hot date tonight...(more photos added)

with this lovely man - Mr Ronan Keating! Below are some of the photographs that we took - not all that great but they do give the atmosphere - eagle eyed amongst you will see that he changed halfway through the concert!

Such a great concert - the last one in his tour of Australia - he flies off to New Zealand tomorrow for more of the same... Will post about it more tomorrow and see if any of the photographs we took are actually worth putting on the blog.... (LATER... have done.. see above)

He performed many of his old ones including the lovely "Life is a Roller coaster" and "When you say Nothing at All"..... He was very amusing and seemed such a genuine and very nice person all round - and I just adore that Irish accent too... All in all a great evening.

(And yes, I did have some sweet dreams!)

Music to stir your heart on a Sunday

I urge you to listen to this - three 30 second bursts from my favourite Classical 'boy band' Blake ....

The second and third excerpts especially make the hairs stand up on my arms!!

This is taken from their third and latest album 'Together' - not only are they all rather easy on the eye (!), I am a teeny bit biased as I know one of them personally - Jules Knight (front, first photo and bottom right hand in second photo) - and have done since he was around 10 years old but they are all equally lovely young men....

Enjoy!!!