Thursday, May 31, 2007

Palenke

Live band Palenke are playing O'Neills on July 16th, from 21:30 until 23:30. Tickets are on sale now on Monday nights at O'Neills.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Salsa tonight

For those of you who are desperate for a fix (like me) Irene has a salsa night tonight at Fairwater Conservative Club (map link - NB if you're coming from the south you can't turn right off Western Avenue into Ely Road). Beginners at 7, improvers at 8, freestyle until 11.) If you fancy going further there's also salsa sabrosa in Bristol.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

ow ow

This is frustrating. I'm tempted to go out tonight but I know it would make my knee worse. Can't see it being better for Swansea tomorrow night either. Though this is the first time in five years that an injury has stopped me dancing, so I should think myself lucky.

Andy's got Tony and Claudia back for some more bachata at Risa on June 14th, which should be good. He'll shortly be announcing a new studio-based Sunday night class, which I'm looking forward to - I'm not the only one who's missing the Wharf. Hope there will be time for free dancing afterwards as well.

Ow

Hurt my knee doing merengue on Monday night. That'll teach me. Means I might miss both Risa and Lisa and Shahid's new night tonight.

I did have a lot of fun on Monday night though - it's a lot better than it used to be. Too hot, though: they need to do something about the air conditioning.

Here's an interesting event: the Norwegian Rueda Congress in Brighton, 6-9 September. Gorka's trying to get a team together: if you're interested contact him (if you haven't got his details, contact me through the link on my profile and I'll pass on your details to him). I'm quite interested in going but I don't think I'll be joining in a team for the competition. Anyone who saw the rueda on Monday would probably agree with this, though actually the first one went surprisingly well seeing as how I hadn't called one for weeks.

Monday, May 21, 2007

New Thursday night

Lisa and Shahid are starting a new salsa/Latin night this Thursday, 24th May. It's in No. 10 nightclub in Mill Lane, with three rooms: salsa classes 8.30 -9.30 and 9.30-10.30 in room 1 followed by Latin music until at least 2am, and 'chillout Latin House' in room 2. Free entry for dancing, classes are £4 for 1 or £5 for both, or you can pay £10 and get classes plus a free meal in Conti's.

It'll be interesting to see how this works out seeing as it's on the same night as Risa.

There's another new night plannned to start in the near future - I'll put more details when I have them.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Great night

Peter told me I looked knackered when I arrived, but that wasn't how I felt. I'd had a feeling it was going to be a good night and I wasn't wrong. Great to dance with Carys early on, for the first time in months. Shame she doesn't come out more often. I had a couple of dances with Sam, who told me that she used to go to the Toad. I never danced with her there, but she's really good fun to dance with.

Highlight of the evening was dancing with with Núria's friend Avríl for the first time. Usually when I dance with somebody new it starts off a bit tentative, but she was dynamic and funky right from the off: a terrific dancer and the most exhilarating dances I've had for a while. So I stayed later than I planned and went to bed still buzzing.

Just noticed it's the first of May today, and my first dance of the night was with June and the last was with Avríl...

Richard Williams has an article about 70s salsa in today's Guardian. Not too keen on his description of modern salsa as "a kind of sexy aerobics for singles", though.