Translation: Happy Saint Dwynwen’s day! For those of you that aren’t in the know, St Dwynwen’s day is Welsh Valentines day. Many Welsh natives celebrate it on the 25th January instead of, or as well as, St Valentines Day. The story goes that Dwynwen lived in the 5th Century AD and she fell in love with a young man named Maelon. Her father refused to allow her to marry Maelon, for whatever reason, so she prayed to God for her [...]
Archive for January, 2006
The tickets for Morrissey’s upcoming UK tour went on sale today, London gigs only though. The tour starts in April, to promote the new album, due to be released in March, Ringleader of the Tormentors. I decided to take a look, to see how it went, by ‘test buying’ from Ticketmaster and Seetickets, just to see what type of demand we’re going to get next week when the other 27 or so dates go on sale. Well, all started off [...]
NME have confirmed the entire lineup of UK gigs that Morrissey is set to play to promote his new album, Ringleader of the tormentors. This includes a date in none other than my home city of Cardiff. May 15th at St Davids Hall. For many years I have been dreaming of the day that I find out my idol is coming here, and now that it has come. It’s a mixture of emotions. Shock, excitement and awe are just a [...]
A report has emerged that court summons will be delivered to Michael Barrymore, whilst he is in the Celebrity Big Brother house. I haven’t been watching the series, simply because it doesn’t deserve any of my attention. But, I cannot seem to go one day without something cropping up on one of my subscribed RSS feeds about it. Since I haven’t been watching it, I haven’t felt the need to post about it. But this story has really made me [...]
After reading today about the launch of Sky’s new broadband movie & sport download service, available free to Sky customers, I decided to take them up on the offer. Who wouldn’t think the idea of being able to download hit movies legally, for free wasn’t a good one? Admittedly, the installation was a little long-winded. I don’t use Windows Media player, so I only had installed what came with SP2, version 9? I was forced to upgrade to 10. OK, [...]

