On the Road Again!

Arrived way too early in London. Doors didn't open until 1830. So I had a coffee using up my syns and the free coffee reward at Costa. I arrived, went through the bag check. The Palladium supposedly a mask wearing site unless eating or drinking. Looks like I was Billy No-Mates as only one with a mask!! My ticket from See had no seat number so I had to go to the box office. The guy gave me an upgrade from the Grand Circle (cheapest seats) to right in the centre of the stalls. Superb view!!! Upgraded view but..... Sadly the empty rows in front remained empty for the two knobends that sat right in front of me!! The support, Ebb, were okay. They seemed to have a decent lead singer/🎸, keyboard and drummer, all female, and an old beardy male bass player.  The other two seemed superfluous!! I never get on with bands where they jig about after two minutes as if they have been jammin' for an hour. Plus all that ridiculous hand "dancing" from the 60's hippy era. Great at W...

Why not? It's somewhere around 46 years since I last saw Hawkwind. That was at the Civic Hall in Guildford, Surrey. It was before I got married the first time and I went with my then fiancée! 1975 I would think. So with us all getting old I thought why not? I'll be flying solo as Claire not all that enthused and would only go to keep me company. I logged into a few of the ticket seller site, and there seems to be more every day, and found tickets for sale.  With just a week to go I had expected that we would be in the modern world and have e-tickets, but it looks as though I have to wait for a paper ticket in the post. Fingers crossed that they can get one to me! E-ticketing seems to be the easiest way to go about this. I'm sure that most of us now have a smartphone we use everyday and so the paper ticket really needs to be the tick box "yes please" option. Getting there.  Easy enough. High Speed train to London St Pancras and Victoria Line to Oxford Circus and a ...