Edington Festival

Attended the final service of 2010 Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy last week, in Wiltshire. It was the last performance from Andrew Carwood, retiring musical director of the Schola Cantorum choir for many years.

Zena James @ SMITF

To St Martin-in-the-Fields Cafe in the Crypt, Trafalgar Square to hear Zena James and her jazz backing quartet.


Zena's new album, Captivated, is due out before Christmas and she previewed a few songs along with tunes from her first album, Tell Me More, and other jazz-pop standards.


Michael Jackson's Human Nature was a great choice for a crossover jazz singer and alto saxophonist Simon Allen's lyrical solos lifted it above pure copycatism.




* More details at www.zenajames.com and Splash Point Digital.
* Jazz listings and other concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields at www.smitf.org.

Google acquired DoubleClick Apr 2007

Click image to see the whole graphic from www.scores.org, showing Google's acquisitions to August 2010.

V8 hotel for love bugs?

A hotel in Germany for motoring nutters. Pics here from Telegraph Online.

Herbie (bottom pic) of the Love Bug films would love it.