Waffle Wednesdays - every Wednesday, from 8:30 to 10:30 am, we serve our freshly made waffles with two delicious toppings: Banana & Chocolate and Bacon & Maple Syrup.
Bubble tea - Available all day, featuring two flavours: Pineapple Jasmine, and Passionfruit Jasmine, served with Lychee Boba.
Image: Mary Cassatt - The Tea
Frankly we could have a 'Beatles Song of the Week' in itself such is the volume and range of music they produced, much of it original and brilliant.
'Rain' is a startling example, not least because it was a vinyl B-side, i.e., considered the inferior of the two songs on the single (the A-side was 'Paperback Writer'). Yet, from Ringo's opening drumbeats to the innovative use of backwards vocals at the end via the overall psychedelic sound, this remains exciting and modern.
Some pieces of music are so familiar that we no longer hear them when they are played (or when you are on hold to your bank). Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' is very high on that list, yet it deserves our full attention. Especially as it is 300 years old this year.
So listen to 'Spring' with your imagination. And enjoy.
PS: the subtitles are Vivaldi's.
Trojan Records, founded by Jamaican Duke Reid and based in North-West London, was instrumental in bringing Jamaican music, initially rocksteady (as in this song) and then reggae, to a European audience, paving the way for the likes of Bob Marley. This track was later covered brilliantly by Blondie and also Atomic Kitten amongst others.
Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, was idiosyncratic to say the least, blending a range of often experiemental musical styles over 13 albums before giving it all up and devoting himself to abstract expressionist painting (see earlier item) which, to be fair, made him far more money.
Beefheart can be very inaccessible, at least on the first 45 hearings. But fear not, this is him at his most accessible.
Tribute bands are ten a penny, but parody bands, where the songs are imitative but original, are rarer and none reached the brilliance of Neils Innes' Beatles parody, the Rutles. So good in fact that the Beatles themselves loved them (Beatle George Harrison funded the documentary) and the songs are now widely recognised on their own merits. Let's be natural.