Two years later

I'm sure there were things to say about 2018 and 2019.

I met a lovely non-binary person who lived a long way away.  We got together in Sheffield in 2018 and had a nice time together.  By March 2019 their life had more things happening than could be part of a long distance relationship and it drifted and ended.  9 month son I'm still sad.  Those 2 weekends in Sheffield were a glimpse of a life I might have had.  or maybe they were just an echo.  They have a life, hard but with lots of new queer folk in it.  That's because I invited them to BiCon, so I helped.  That's a good thing to know.

I'll write about more things, but that's it for now. 

Peatbog Faeries

And linked with my Aphantasia I have a poor memory for events after after they've happened last night I headed t6o Stirling to the Tollbooth toi see Peatbog Faeries.  A post from the venue popped up last week saying something like 12 more tickets only.

Never seen them never listed to a track, which is quite normal for my gig going.  Tollbooth is a well-known arts centre and the main venue is about the size of a largeish school assembly hall.  So a few hundred punters, but not that big.

5 piece band, whistle/bag-pipes, fiddle, keyboards, guitar, bass and drums.  Obviously I could just edit that to "6 piece band".  This is one of the ways I like my Scottish Celtic bands, with a good font line, the keyboards doing some excellent electronica and various bits of the night and a stompingly good beat.  It's loud, lively, and just so well executed which you'd expect for a band with an almost 30 year heritage.

I like getting lost in my music and stimming along and once I'd found a space where people weren't bashing into me, I was very happy.  Finish about 10:20, I should have waited in Weatherspoons instead of the waiting room at Stirling station for an 11:38 train to Perth.

Simply put all the best gigs happen at the Tollbooth and this was one.