London – October 2018 – Roger & Sally's Travel Blog & More

So, back to October in London and a bit of a music fest’ 🙂

First up was the great venue of Dublin Castle in Camden, famed for being the stage where many bands and performers such as Madness and the late great Amy Winehouse broke through into the big time. Through the back of the pub bar and into a small dark venue, its perfect and really worth a visit. Most nights of the week there are 4-6 bands in the line up, just turn up and pay on the door.

Next we were off to the Pizza Express Jazz Club in the basement of their restaurant on Dean Street. It’s a superb venue with relaxed cabaret style seating where you can eat pizza and sip a drink whilst watching some great jazz performers. We saw Theo Croker, a brilliant trumpeter supported by the Star People Nation who are so talented. Many of the big names in Jazz play here so its worth checking out their website and booking a table if you want to guarantee a seat. Well worth it!!

Also, I mentioned previously when regaling our search for a camper van that we saw Ash, one of my favourite bands from the late 80’s / early 90’s. What a great night at the Brixton O2 Academy; it brought back fantastic memories of getting to the mosh pit.

Oh and I almost forgot, when we were picking up the camper in Winchester, we came across “The Dead Beatz”, a street busker with his mechanical skeleton drummer. Yes, we donated – rude not to.

The calendar of Christmas events was launched at our local, The Warwick Castle. Very excited about Irish Pete turning on the Xmas lights 🙂

We transformed the flat’s balcony with some fab planters that Sal’s Dad made.

October 18 is eyes down month for Glastonbury 2019 tickets. We tried, along with friends from Jersey, but despite many devices on the go, lucky hats worn, Bob the Buddha giving us luck and many cups of coffee we failed, miserably 😦

The up side is that after many years it gee’d us up to try something new. End Of The Road 19 festival in Dorset here we come 🙂

The end of October brought Halloween and we’d spotted an advert for a fancy dress contest and quiz at the Sun In Splendour pub in Notting Hill. We are rubbish at quiz’s but hey it seemed like a bit of a giggle so we signed up…. what could possibly go wrong?

Well, to start with nobody else attempted fancy dress – slightly embarrassing…