Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space..

Well I've had a good listen to Bob's new album 'tempest' in the last week. Bob's management team have been quite clever by providing the album via itunes streaming a week prior to it's release. Coupled with social media marketing, most fans had something to say about the album prior to yesterday's official release.
Bob's album's tend to take quite a few listen before you can make a judgement call. Some critics have hailed his best yet, certainly I think it's his best since 'Love & Theft' 2001. In Dylan's earlier album's he had the ability to change genre, with 'Tempest' and since 'Time out mind' in 1997 he hasn't change genre. He's actually rooted himself firmly in the past mixing roots, folk, jazz and a bit of the blues. Make no mistake about it Dylan is a master thief from guitar riffs to the odd lyrical twist. In fact, his radio show is a testament to his amazing knowledge of music from the past. So with 'tempest', we get a fantastic record that pays homage to Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie. Dylan even manages to pen a song for the great John Lennon 'roll on John' and he does what he does best incorporating some the Beatles lyrics into the song. 'i read the news today oh boy'. It's remarkable to think a 71 year old could come with a beautiful album like this.

Back to logging my training
Thurs 7th - managed to get out with Eamo & Berger for a session in Homebush, we went to the track and we were duly kicked off but somehow I managed to negotiate 20 mins of track time. I ended up running 6 400s averaging 70 secs.
Fri: Hungover
Sat: 15k with a 5k tempo in the middle (17.33)
Sun: 33k, 75 mins with Chalks avging 4.28 pace. Ended up increasing the pace bringing the average down to 4.19.
Mon: I was up in Brizzy, back to back meetings (so chance of meeting up with Master Sweeney). Went down to Kensington oval in the evening and ran 20 by 35 sec strides
Tues: Ran into work (38 mins), 45 min with Hurts (1 min on, 30 secs off), ran with Macca. Ended up avging 3.37 km/m
Wed: Ran into work (40 mins) & out with the squad for a 85 mins easy
The title of today's blog refers to a spiritualised album from the late 90's. I've just picked up the latest offering 'Sweet Heart, Sweet Light' which is like reconnecting with a friend from the past.
When I came to Australian initially, I spent a lot time going to various gigs. I loved going to the Metro on George Street, you could stand at the back of the gig and drink can's of VB until your heart was content. I recall dragging my good mate Eamonn aka 'Yom' to a spiritualised gig who could have 10 cans of VB prior to any band making the stage. The lead singer Jason Pierce is a bit of an enigma and typically gets a religious reaction from his fans. Well Jason was getting stuck into a song (can't recall which one), he's turns his back to the audience. Yom having none of this and at the top of voice 'for f*** sake, if you are going to sing, sing to us you f**ing moron'. Suffice to say the crowd were not too happy and we had to leave. I see Spiritualised are coming back to Australia in December. There's playing at the Opera House. I wonder if I should go along. For those interested, check out this tune...it bloody fantastic.