About last year ... cont'd ... Victoria Park - Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Shame ...

Had a lovely day out in Victoria Park in June. Weather

was perfect. Not too hot and didn't rain. I was told the beer was overpriced. Our picnic was perfect.

I went to see Patti Smith and she was her perfect poet self, acknowledging an Allen Ginsberg anniversary and saluting John Lennon. 

But this band SHAME blew me away. 

I loved them. 

Was standing in a queue for chips later I think and turned round and who's walking right up to me as if to say hello but Charlie Steen himself. 

Midsummer twilight and Nick Cave played an emotional set (mostly to the front six adoring rows who climbed on stage with him as the night got darker)