My favourite Icelandic band, Hjaltalin have uploaded a rather shiney new video of the song Feels Like Sugar off their last album, Terminal.

I tried to figure out my favourite albums of all time tonight, because I realise that I’ve never sat down and tried to pin them down.
After much agonising, I came up with a definitive list of 58 albums…

I think it needs some pruning.

Last night we ran for our lives from zombies, being chased around parks, shopping centres and churches. The interactive game, 2.8 Hours Later had us hunting all around the city, with some fantastic set pieces like a zombie butcher, zombie scanning centre, zombie hen party and an underground resistance movement. It was all part of igfest 2011 in Bristol.

The Other Way Works have a new show, booking now.

Avon Calling – Trailer – The Other Way Works from The Other Way Works on Vimeo.

This problem in Japan has if anything made me more keen on nuclear power. Why? Well, partly because it has prompted me to take a look at the latest reactor designs. Travelling Wave Reactors caught my interest after Bill Gates’s TED talk, however there are problems – they will only be ready in around 20 years, plus they don’t breed any fuel for the future. There’s another design, Integral Fast Reactors which also look interesting, and are here today.

But don’t worry about it too much, as the Bermuda Sun reports: “The damage in Bermuda seems to have been restricted to a few bread rolls falling from the shelves at Lindo’s”

Tonight we narrowly missed a (reportedly) terrible three hour show to see an excellent show involving human and equine dancers. The horses were amazing, obeying commands by name, in Swedish. This same feat was repeated by the humans. Here’s the grand finale in which all performers (of both species) flew and ran around the ring.

In the 1999 film Ghost World, an aggressive redneck guards a Greek convenience store with a pair of nun-chucks for 36 hours. That’s quite a long shift and, as it happens, about the length of time that it will take us to travel by train from Birmingham to Stockholm. This may seem expensive and time consuming to you, but did you know that it enabled Katie to return in luxury from her last IETM in Berlin at the height of the Icelandic ash cloud last April?

The route is… Birmingham to London, to Brussels, to Cologne, to Copenhagen (overnight sleeper), where we spent a few hours, then an 8 hour train to Stockholm.

In Copenhagen, we burnt a few hours in the design museum. I’d never considered how many design classics that we use every day were the brainchildren of Danish designers. Interestingly, some of the items (doorhandles, taps, …) were designed in the 70′s, but are only now beginning to permeate to the UK.

In Stockholm, I am at this IETM under slightly false pretenses, with a paid up delegate pass, but no involvement in the theatre sector. But thanks to years of marriage to Katie, I can hold my own in any discussion about theatre, with my ready assortment of received wisdom and second-hand opinions.

There are some great benefits to having a delegate pass. How about a free meal and loads of wine refills (totalling to more than the cost of the delegate pass, by my estimation)? Even better, it was in this chuck of a building:

These guys are playing at All Tomorrows Parties this year. Gutted I can’t go.