Heatwave!
- art edinburgh
The temperature outside has reached 24°C and it feels just like a few weeks ago in Athens at 40°C. Too hot. I couldn’t find my shorts. I must have got rid of them since the last summer which was three years ago. I feel taken back to that time, my first summer in Scotland, when my impression of Scottish summers got seriously skewed.
But how lucky am I to have taken this week off work?! It’s the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival again, and I’m volunteering, going to gigs, hanging out with the musicians. Highlights so far were catching up with the other volunteers and staff, many of whom I hadn’t seen in a year. Wandering from venue to venue, never knowing who I would run into. Announcing the bands to thousands of people at the free open-air event. Of course hanging out backstage with the musicians - so cool, I’m still getting star struck all the time. An amazing drum solo by EST’s Magnus Ostrom, which might have been two, five or ten minutes long, I couldn’t tell, but I wouldn’t have minded if it had gone on for much longer - it was so good. Seeing him in his underpants before the gig. Cycling home at night in a T-shirt - no jumper needed! The discounts on drinks in the festival venues. All this music, all this skill!
Good times.
But how lucky am I to have taken this week off work?! It’s the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival again, and I’m volunteering, going to gigs, hanging out with the musicians. Highlights so far were catching up with the other volunteers and staff, many of whom I hadn’t seen in a year. Wandering from venue to venue, never knowing who I would run into. Announcing the bands to thousands of people at the free open-air event. Of course hanging out backstage with the musicians - so cool, I’m still getting star struck all the time. An amazing drum solo by EST’s Magnus Ostrom, which might have been two, five or ten minutes long, I couldn’t tell, but I wouldn’t have minded if it had gone on for much longer - it was so good. Seeing him in his underpants before the gig. Cycling home at night in a T-shirt - no jumper needed! The discounts on drinks in the festival venues. All this music, all this skill!
Good times.