Tag: concert
Toumani Diabaté
The griots are the curators of West African history, storing thousands of stories and songs in their memory.
The Lion roared
Covers bands will always be judged on the quality of their renditions. Fortunately these are sometimes good.
Manu Chao in Concert
For listeners used to the laidback charms of Chao’s recorded repetoire, the live experience is somewhat more intense!
Sierra Maestra in concert
Perhaps they were jetlagged: a muted performance from a highly praised Cuban outfit.
Lila Downs in concert
An enormously gifted Mexican singer who puts everything she has into every performance.
Girona and the 3rd Caixa Sabadell Etnival
You can keep your Costas: a few minutes inland there’s a beautiful city waiting to be discovered.
Buena Vista Social Club presents (2007 Tour)
My flatmate saw a documentary film about some Cuban musicians. He insisted I see it for myself. And I did, eight years later.
DJing again!
I haven’t brandished a 12″ mix in anger for some years, but this weekend my name’s down and I am coming in.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Groundhog Day
Only Bill Murray could make misery, misanthropy and rejection this funny.
- Originally published: 25 Mar 2007 in Film
Ten years of the Euro
The symbol of European unity marks its first decade.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2009 in Editorial
Alias Watch: Damn, He’s/I’m in trouble again
There are other Mike Padgetts in the world. Today I learned that one of them has had some bad news.
- Originally published: 21 Jun 2010 in Editorial
Rotterdam
Second city of the Dutch, Rotterdam makes much of its brutalist architecture and its famous art museum.
- Originally published: 10 Mar 2009 in Europe
Istanbul
A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.