The fish soup was impeccable, says William
There was a time when my insecurities meant I was terrified to dine out alone. If I sat at a table for one in a restaurant, I knew, just knew, that people, everyone, on every other table all had their eyes on me, conspiring in the view of what a loser I was. ‘Pity that poor Billy No-Mates, eating on his own,’ they were saying. Such was the cacophony of this imaginary chorus that I almost felt compelled to go around telling everyone that I was fine, that honestly, really, I had chosen to be on my own, this was my treat to myself, I’ve got plenty of friends, too many of the damn folk to be honest, ha, ha, ha.
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Crowds watching the Kings of Leon in London s Hyde Park, 2017
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Britain’s cautious attempts to open up the live music industry are about to be shown up by our cousins across the Atlantic.
New York mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a vast 60,000-capacity open air concert on Central Park’s Great Lawn, with a tentative date of Saturday August 21. It will, according to The New York Times, be a “grand symbol of New York’s revitalisation after a brutal pandemic year”. De Blasio has asked Clive Davis, the legendary 89 year-old producer who signed Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston, to pull together a line-up.
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