An amazing trip to Suffolk as Julie, Lisa, Ben and I drove to Beccles Airfield to support Lisa in her skydive over the East Anglian countryside.
Category:News & events
Southbank concert
A very pleasant evening in the company of photographer Jonathan Stewart as we attended Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank to enjoy a concert by singer/writer Shawn Colvin and UK rising star, Liverpudlian Robert Vincent.
MU summer event
I collected a transit-style van from Europcar in Clapham Road at ten o’clock this morning so that my colleague Jane Austin and I could load and deliver the party items required for the MU Summer Party to the Windmill pub on Clapham Common.
Wigmore Hall
I was kindly invited this afternoon by Victoria Bevan, of PR company Albion Media, to attend a very, very special event at London’s Wigmore Hall this afternoon, featuring speaker Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, her son Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and John York (piano).
Haslemere Festival
A busy few days on and around the weekend. Friday evening saw Julie, Ben and I attend the Langley Park Boys cricket end-of-season awards BBQ event, while Ben trained at Oak Lodge with Beckenham Town Juniors FC on Saturday morning.
BBC and Sky News
A busy media-related day in the company of Naomi Pohl, MU Assistant General Secretary, as we visited both the BBC and the Sky News offices in central London.
MPA Summer Party
An entertaining evening courtesy of the Music Publishers’ Association Summer Party, which this year took place in the Battlebridge Room & Terrace at Kings Place in York Way, close to the trade body’s office in Pancras Square.
Labour Live
The Labour Party organised this event and promised “a festival of political ideas, with music, art, workshops and conversations.” I arranged for the MU to sponsor the headline act on the second ‘Solidarity’ stage and booked the marvellous She Drew the Gun from Liverpool.
The Musician (June)
The latest issue of The Musician magazine is being distributed in hard copy format this week, solely to MU members, and this 52 page edition leads with details of the Union’s orchestral campaign.
Whitehall comms
Following a productive morning in the MU offices, with the Union’s Executive Committee in our main conference room for its monthly meeting, I drove into town for UK Music’s latest gathering of communications representatives of its member bodies.
Day in Dulwich
The MU Communications and Government Relations team had an ‘away day’ event this morning, courtesy of Department Head Isabelle Gutierrez, at her riding school in Dulwich.
UK Music Party
Horace Trubridge, Dave Webster, Maddy Radcliff and I represented the MU at the annual UK Music summer event this evening, although on this occasion the venue was the 9th floor in City Hall overlooking Tower Bridge, rather than the gathering’s usual home on the Terrace at the House of Commons.
Robert Vincent
An unexpected pleasure this afternoon as I travelled through Waterloo main line station to find a stage set up on the main concourse and Robert Vincent and his trio performing a set of prime country and rock’n’roll.
Ealing Club
I attended a screening this evening of ‘Surburban Steps to Rockland – The Story of the Ealing Club’ in the Macmillan Room at Portcullis House, Westminster, at the invitation of the ‘APPG on Music’ and Rupa Huq MP.
Kent v Glos
A wonderfully relaxed Sunday at the Kent County cricket ground in Beckenham, as an in-form Kent eleven won a high scoring match against Gloucestershire in the Royal London Cup.
England v Nigeria
Ben and I met up with Peter Brown at the England fans’ haunt The Green Man in Wembley’s Dagmar Avenue this afternoon, ahead of England’s pre-World Cup friendly against Nigeria.
Quiz victory
The MU entered two teams in the 12th annual Hencilla Canworth Quiz this evening at its well-established venue, Dickens Inn in St Katherine’s Dock.
Charity golf day
Another cracking day in the summer sunshine at Cumberwell Park GC in Wiltshire at the charity golf fundraiser arranged by Neil and Sarah Davies in aid of Dorothy House Hospice Care and the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group.
Emily Barker
After a productive day working on the summer 2018 issue of The Musician magazine with the Future Fusion publishing team at Quay House, I accompanied Account Manager David Parker and Consultant Editor Neil Crossley to The Forum.
Hyde Park rally
Following the success of the previous TUC rallies in Hyde Park, I was asked by the organisation’s events team to arrange three artists to perform on their stage near Marble Arch this afternoon during their latest major central London event.
Graham Norton
My wife Julie arranged for two tickets for the recording of The Graham Norton Show this week and so this afternoon we met at Westminster tube station and travelled to White City where the programme is recorded.
