Tag: gig
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 …
Relocating to Brussels: the final haul
Moving to Brussels: temporary accommodation, commune registration, parking permits, utilities, rubbish collection, doctors, dentists.
- Originally published: 14 Jul 2008 in Relocation
Lila Downs in concert
An enormously gifted Mexican singer who puts everything she has into every performance.
- Originally published: 25 Jul 2007 in Concerts
Three Days of De Panne
Easter weekend started early as we headed up to the Flemish coast at De Panne.
- Originally published: 5 Apr 2010 in Europe
Children of Men
Dark, desperate and dystopic. All in all, a miserably good film.
- Originally published: 21 Feb 2007 in Film
American Beauty
Watching one of 1999′s best movies, it’s easy to forget the seriousness of the issues being discussed here.
- Originally published: 12 Feb 2007 in Film
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.