Prom night

Up early-ish. Then off to the Tate Modern. Tube travel with an Apple watch is great, you can use it to pay for your trip as long as you hold the thing right up against the reader and wait for the beep before you try to walk through the gates. Otherwise you just bounce off them, which other folks might have found funny if they had time to.

The art in Tate Modern was good, although I’m not clever enough to understand most of it. And there is a disturbing tendency for them to whack a video projector in a room with white walls and call it art. Another nice coffee though….

Then a walk through London to Foyles bookshop for lunch which was great. They didn’t have my books in the shop though. Then up to Leicester Square (Lego store closed – wah) for a look in the Japan Centre, Covent Garden (quick look in the Apple store) and then back again to the flat to rest up for the evening’s entertainment.

Then on to the Albert Hall. We were sat in “the choir” which is a posh term for “behind the orchestra”. However, it was fascinating to watch the players at work and the sound was really good. They played some stuff I knew, plus one “far out” piece that, if I heard it again, I probably wouldn’t recognise – although I’m tempted to have a go at the game in question just to discover what it sounds like there. It was interesting to see how game music has gone from “whatever we can squeeze from the hardware” into an art form in itself. And, like true art, it now has the capacity to be a bit “up-itself”.

I really hope they have another event like this. It was great. And I think I know the best place to sit…