I wanna go to Dollywood!!!
I've been excited about going to see Dolly Parton for seven months!!! Alex got tickets for a Christmas present and promised to take me, and now the night had finally arrived!!! I always get excited when getting together with Alex as we don't see so much of each other now she's moved to the country, so I could hardly contain myself as you can imagine....
After watching some of the Federer/Nadal match we decided Federer would fare better if we weren't staring at him putting him off (obviously we were wrong about that)......besides, we didn't know how the boats to the O2 centre worked but had been assured the trip only took four minutes!! (actually it's forty!)....so I took Alex on my crafty cut-through where Nathaniel and I used to skate late at night (he on skateboard and me on rollerskates), and as we wandered into the tunnel we wondered aloud where the graffiti exhibition was then realised we were right in the middle of it! So we could take in a street art show literally on our way to Dolly! Marvellous!
There were some really effective pieces like the one above, and some great excuses for mucking about...
It was a bit of an art-dash but I was so pleased we saw it...
A bit masculine overall, would've been lovely to see a bit of Fafi in there...
Then on to the boat which was luckily just pulling up and off we went!
It was brilliant people-watching on the boat, the obvious Dolly fans in plastic cowboy hats and as many sequins, rhinestones and silver leather as they could pile onto their bodies! We sat outside and enjoyed a wonderful London sightseeing tour....Alex used to work in this big silver lump when she was something in the city - that lady has had so many lifetimes!!!
Then we came upon the eyesore that is the Dome, but we looked on it with kinder eyes as it had a real live Angel inside it! We rushed up the gangplank and into the venue as she was starting her first song!
No, we weren't this close! She was amazing amazing AMAZING!!!! Her singing voice is bell-like, absolutely perfect and she is incredibly musical, wandering around the stage to sit at the piano, play guitar, penny whistle or something approaching a harp! I've never seen anyone with such musical prowess but Polly Harvey - in fact she IS the Polly Harvey of Country! If anyone reading this has ever heard me dj, they know that rather often I play my prized, pink 12 inch Dolly Parton disco record, "Burnin'" - it is seminal....and she only came on to that very number after the intermission!!!!! I could've died and gone to heaven!!!! I mean everyone from Kiss to Ethel Merman made a disco record (and I'm not knocking 'em - love 'em!), but it was the LAST song I expected to hear as well as the one I wanted to hear the MOST!!!!!!
Now I want to go to Dollywood!!!!
Madame xxxx
After watching some of the Federer/Nadal match we decided Federer would fare better if we weren't staring at him putting him off (obviously we were wrong about that)......besides, we didn't know how the boats to the O2 centre worked but had been assured the trip only took four minutes!! (actually it's forty!)....so I took Alex on my crafty cut-through where Nathaniel and I used to skate late at night (he on skateboard and me on rollerskates), and as we wandered into the tunnel we wondered aloud where the graffiti exhibition was then realised we were right in the middle of it! So we could take in a street art show literally on our way to Dolly! Marvellous!
There were some really effective pieces like the one above, and some great excuses for mucking about...
It was a bit of an art-dash but I was so pleased we saw it...
A bit masculine overall, would've been lovely to see a bit of Fafi in there...
Then on to the boat which was luckily just pulling up and off we went!
It was brilliant people-watching on the boat, the obvious Dolly fans in plastic cowboy hats and as many sequins, rhinestones and silver leather as they could pile onto their bodies! We sat outside and enjoyed a wonderful London sightseeing tour....Alex used to work in this big silver lump when she was something in the city - that lady has had so many lifetimes!!!
Then we came upon the eyesore that is the Dome, but we looked on it with kinder eyes as it had a real live Angel inside it! We rushed up the gangplank and into the venue as she was starting her first song!
No, we weren't this close! She was amazing amazing AMAZING!!!! Her singing voice is bell-like, absolutely perfect and she is incredibly musical, wandering around the stage to sit at the piano, play guitar, penny whistle or something approaching a harp! I've never seen anyone with such musical prowess but Polly Harvey - in fact she IS the Polly Harvey of Country! If anyone reading this has ever heard me dj, they know that rather often I play my prized, pink 12 inch Dolly Parton disco record, "Burnin'" - it is seminal....and she only came on to that very number after the intermission!!!!! I could've died and gone to heaven!!!! I mean everyone from Kiss to Ethel Merman made a disco record (and I'm not knocking 'em - love 'em!), but it was the LAST song I expected to hear as well as the one I wanted to hear the MOST!!!!!!
Now I want to go to Dollywood!!!!
Madame xxxx
Labels: Banksy, Burnin', Dolly Parton, Dollywood, O2, The Milleneum Dome
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