Galicia

First off, if you missed it the other night (Sun 31st July) you might try and catch up with "War And Justice: The Case of Marine A" - a great, challenging documentary directed by Stephen Bennett. I was glad to compose the music.

On Friday Teenage Fanclub travelled to Galicia to play the Ribeira Sacra festival.

En route I made a wee playlist: 

I'll never make it as a DJ. But how about that Eddie Van Halen guitar solo in Beat it?

On Sat morning I visited a wee gem of a museum. When he was 10 years old Dario Lodeiro carved a flute and a figure of Christ out of wood:

(I suppose if he had combined them that could have been sacrilege.)

The Museo Lodeiro exclusively houses his work; wood and stone sculptures and paintings. 

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote & Sancho Panza

Some of his carved stone faces could be Quentin Blake drawings

Elephant

Another Elephant

The stage was outdoors in the ground of a vineyard. Beautiful.

After soundcheck we had a jaunt down the river on a Catamaran while an acoustic duo performed the whole of Neil Young's Harvest album.

The gig was great. And so was the wine.

Our hotel was once a monastery.

Now serving splendid breakfasts.

Some Galician grated tomato last week.

We flew out of Porto...

And into Liverpool...

And schlepped up the road blethering and listening to Electric Dreams.

Some recent drawings...

Glaswegians, I can heartily recommend this:

Next Fanclub trip = Rioja and roll (shut it):

Besos y un fuerte abrazo!