First Post!

This here is just a post to start up my blog, I'm not really sure about which of the topics suggested I'm going to blog about yet, probably just my experiences in the glorious technicolour dreamworld that is Brighton, which I'm sure will mostly consist of me grousing about how much things are cheaper and better back home 'Up North', but I'll need to get a flat cap first.

I think to start this off in a blogtastic style, I'll discuss a phenomenon which I haven't really experienced in Leeds, that of spotting famous people in the street, all nonchalant-like. Back home the only famous person I saw in the street (I've seen musicians at gigs and all that, shook Willy Mason's hand) was Jeremy Dyson, the one from the League Of Gentlemen who doesn't actually act or appear in the show at all (apart from a cameo as a lighter salesman) which hardly counts, since only hardcore dvd extra-watching spods like me will know him.

But in Brighton, In the space of a little over 5 weeks, I have seen 3 famous people, and curiously enough, all on the same street, I saw Jimmy Carr and Simon Amstell within the space of about a minute on a saturday morning, and last thursday, on my way to Virgin Megastores (or 'Zavvi' as it is now putridly known) I saw the actor Tom Conti.

Amaazing.

Except they were all doing comedy gigs or plays in town, and the street I saw them on just happened to be one up from the street with all the theatres on, you know, near the Pavilion, so it's not really surprising, maybe if I had hung around the theatres in Leeds I would have seen some.

But who knows?

That's a nice evocative way to end my inaugural blog, so yeah, keep on rockin' in the free world!