A Year of Nights Out: 2004

[tamaranth]

I keep tickets, ticket-stubs etc for almost everything I go to: they end up (along with postcards from friends) on a pinboard in my kitchen and every New Year I clear off the pinboard and put the ticket stubs away in a drawer, and start the year with the cultural equivalent of a blank canvas.



This year I note that:
-- my friends have gone to lots of exciting places. I've had one foreign trip -- Copenhagen -- you can see the bus ticket bottom left.
-- I should write more reviews of films, concerts etc
-- my UGC card is paying for itself. Yay!

20 Films (25 cinema visits)
Big Fish
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Pan (x 2)
School of Rock
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Starsky and Hutch
Hidalgo
Van Helsing (x 2)
Secret Window
Troy (x 2)
The Day After Tomorrow
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (x 2, but only because the cinema broke during the first one)
Shrek 2
King Arthur
The Village
Stage Beauty (x 2)
Hero
Finding Neverland
Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events
National Treasure

12 Classical Concerts
Prokofiev, Debussy -- Royal Festival Hall
Bruch, Rossini, Tchaikovsky -- Royal Festival Hall
Mahler (Symphony of a Thousand) -- Royal Festival Hall
Brahms, Beethoven -- Royal Festival Hall
Abraxas (string quintet) -- Blackheath Halls
Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, & others -- Proms
Beethoven -- Symphony #9 -- Proms
Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky -- Royal Festival Hall
Verdi, Requiem -- Royal Albert Hall
Rachmaninoff, Sibelius -- Royal Festival Hall
Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky -- Royal Festival Hall
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev -- Royal Festival Hall

6 Gigs
Drive By Truckers -- The Garage
Steeleye Span -- Fairfield Halls
New York Dolls -- Royal Festival Hall
Siouxsie: Dream Show -- Royal Festival Hall
ex-Georgia Satellites -- Lock 17 (ex Dingwalls)
Robyn Hitchcock -- The Garage

5 Opera
Das Rheingold -- English National Opera
Les Contes d'Hoffman -- Royal Opera House
Samson et Dalila -- Royal Opera House
Marriage of Figaro -- Savoy Opera
Don Pasquale -- Royal Opera House

2 Theatre (v. poor)
Aristophanes' 'Lysistrata'(UCL Bloomsbury)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (National Theatre)

Comments

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an impressive cultural/social life you have. What a great idea too, I think I'll start collecting tickets. Of course, this means I'll have to start making more of an effort to get out of the flat to cinemas, theatres and the like, but since that's one of my New Year resolutions anyway, hopefully I should manage at least enough trips to cover a small notice board.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

yay! I recognise my NZ postcard by the sticker on it - and you should get another any minute now ;-)

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of stuff..

cool

[suaveswede.livejournal.com]

I so wish i had´nt stop´d do that.

[pecos.livejournal.com]

Gosh, what a great idea! (Pecos rushes out to get a bulletin board) But mine won't have to be as big as yours.