Tom Waits, Grand Rex Paris, 29th May 2000
Tom LennonRemembering Tom Waits' unforgettable May 2000 performance at Le Grand Rex in Paris, the world's most beautiful cinema.
Gig of My Life: Tom Waits, Grand Rex Paris, 29th May 2000
Tom LennonThe best gig I ever went to was Tom Waits at the majestic Grand Rex in Paris on 29th May 2000. Here's what I remember of the night.
Cookiewaits
Tom LennonSesame Street’s Cookie Monster + Tom Waits = Cookiewaits. It’s obvious, really, and I love this much more than any man should love love some […]
Tom Waits: Hell Broke Luce
Tom LennonI’m a massive Tom Waits fan. A video for Hell Broke Luce (a rather excellent track from his rather excellent latest album, Bad as […]
Music Haiku: My Favourite Albums of the Decade
Tom LennonHere’s some more self-penned haiku, this time covering my favourite records of the last ten years:
20. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005)
Sufjan’s Prairie State
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Tom Waits, Kool Keith: Spacious Thoughts
Tom LennonTaken from hip-hop duo NASA’s Spirit of Apollo CD – which features a multitude of mouth-wateringly eclectic musical collaborations – here’s the video for Tom […]
My Top 5 Gigs of 2009
Tom LennonWhy Top 5? Why not a Top 10? As a lapsed Discordian I was going to knock out a rather elaborate, mind-bending […]
Rowlf the Raindog
Tom LennonI was watching The Muppet Show with Clare and Lily this evening. I’d bought Lily the season 2 DVD boxset for Christmas and […]
Tom Waits, Le Grand Rex Paris, 24th July 2008: Gig Reconstruction
Tom LennonI’ll eventually get around to writing a proper review of what will almost inevitably end up as My Favourite Gig of […]
The Gilded Palace of Cinema
Tom LennonI’ve never been a design nut, architecture addict or buildingophile, but when I first saw Le Grand Rex in Paris […]
The Holiday is Over
Tom LennonWell, I’m back.
Over the last week and a half I’ve driven from Birmingham to Kent, from Kent to Sussex and then back to […]
The Littlest Raindog
Tom LennonI’ve made no secret of the fact that next week’s Tom Waits gig in Paris has put me in a state of perpetual chomping-at-the-bit excitement. […]