Randy’s Postcards from Purgatory

An outstanding, entertaining, and engaging puppet-show. I strongly recommended it to everyone who would listen, however, I think the stigma of puppet-show was too much to overcome. (A alternative reason is my friends don’t trust my recommendations!) Randy was a children’s entertainer telling us about this life and relationships and how it was all messed up. The writing was excellent and the performance was brilliant. I’m sure from time-to-time I’ll fondly remember Randy shouting “WHERE’S WILLIAAAAAAAAAAAM?”

Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

I have been building an interest in Classical music since living in Bristol – Jim regularly listened to BBC Radio 3 when he drove us into work. Seeing a live orchestra was an great experience, there was much more energy than can be conveyed over the radio or on a CD.

Power Plant

I didn’t know anything about this until I saw a 5-star review on somebody else’s newspaper on the Glasgow Underground. Power Plant was an incredible light and sound exhibition at the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens Glasshouses. There were some beautiful touches like the flame pipes producing rhythms and sitting on the couches looking over the disco ball palm trees. It’s difficult to explain this exhibition but I strongly recommend seeing it on tour. I didn’t take any photographs because it wouldn’t do this exhibition justice.

Fireworks Concert

I queued for tickets to watch the concert from Prices Street Gardens and I would do it again. Hopefully I will remember ear buds for next year because fireworks have never sounded so loud. A friend managed to take some great photographs of the display and this is the best quality recording of the concert I have been able to find:

The Gold Screens were situated in a different part of the cinema than the regular screens and I was able to buy a bottle of beer to take into the screen. The seat had enough leg-room to stretch out and enough arm-rest space to avoid knocking against the person sitting next to me. There was a large sideboard to rest my beer on and any space for a small box of salted popcorn. The only thing lacking was a coat stand.

Will I purchase a Gold Class ticket in the future? Almost certainly because it was a more relaxing and ‘grown-up’ experience.

Would I purchase a Gold Class ticket regularly? Perhaps not because £9.20 is a scary price to pay for every visit to the cinema.