Tags: Celtic Connections, concert, Glasgow, ill
Date: 28 January 2007 12:31:10
Thanks everyone for your comments. We are starting to emerge from the industrial-sized amounts of hot lemon that we are drinking and sounding slightly less like that possessed woman from the Exorcist. Auntie Doris, his temperature was so bad yesterday that he was doing fine soaking the bed by himself without needing any bedbath from me.
After I'd posted yesterday's entry HD emerged briefly and said that if I felt up to it he didn't mind me going to the gig last night by myself, as he was just going to go back to sleep. I didn't feel all that great myself, but I did feel human enough to realise that with him asleep and only Saturday night rubbish TV for company (I had by this point read everybody's wiblog about 3 times over and much as I love you all that really was enough) I wasn't going to have an amazing evening if I stayed in, so I wrapped up and headed up to town. I went via the Celtic Connections box office to see if I could get refunds on the two workshop tickets and for his ticket for the evening concert - unfortunately they don't do refunds, but do do exchanges on tickets that they could technically resell, so with half an hour to go I was able to swap his evening ticket for a ticket for a gig next weekend which I'd really wanted to go to but hadn't got a ticket for because I'd felt guilty about being extravagant. Oh well, sometimes we just have to make these sacrifices, and yay I'm going to a fab gig next week too! On my own, which is sad, but never mind, I'm sure I'll cope the once.
So I then headed off to the Tron Theatre (which I'd walked past lots of times without realising it was there), a small intimate theatre, where I bumped into a couple I know which meant I didn't have to sit there by myself which was good. The support act were the Lori Watson 3 (she's a fiddle player and singer from the Borders, and there was also a guy on guitar and a girl on accordian) who were very good indeed (they did some of their own stuff and some traditional Borders tunes as well), and I think really suited the small venue. Then to the main act, Soig Siberil (who isn't a singer as I said before, but a guitarist from Brittany) and a singer (also from Brittany) called Nolwenn Korbell. Again I think they suited the small intimate space really well, they were very different from any of the other acts we'd seen so far - I know Brittany is far from being Mediterranean, but there was a definite "southern European" feel to their songs I thought which was great - just what I needed thinking about the cold northernness outside! Soig Siberil also did a couple of solo guitar pieces which were just fantastic, at one point it sounded like there were about 3 guitars playing at once, he was fantastic.
Today we're still a bit croaky and feeble but much better than yesterday, so we will make it out to our last gig later. This one will be fantastic (I heard the artists perform on the radio the other week and they were all ace) - more later!