Last night Chris and I attended Video Game Heroes at the London Southbank Centre, which is part of Vision Sound Music – the UKʼs first festival of music for visuals.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra played music from a wide selection of Videogames: everything from World of Warcraft, to Deadspace, to Angry Birds. It was fantastic! You can see the full set list below. The music for 007: Blood Stone was particularly surprising, I hadn’t heard it until last night and it’s made me want to buy the game – no matter how good or bad it is. My favourite piece was by far the one from Dead Space – it stood out from the other tracks and is such an emotional soundtrack.
We also had a lovely afternoon exploring the Southbank and having a nice long walk around soho. Here are some more photos of the day:
Silly faces on the train.
We found some amazing cider at the Real Food Market on the Southbank. Just what you need on a sunny day!
The Stall selling the cider also sold chutneys and pickles. We bought three – Spicy tomato and caramelized onion chutney, piquant pepper jelly and (my fave) Hot garlic pickle.
Of course, the food at the market was delicious. I had a mixture of roasted artichoke salad, butter beans in tomato sauce and roast aubergines, tahini and pomegranate from Aribica food and spice. It was so yummy.
A ladybird landed on my tattoo as we walked along the Southbank. Poor thing clearly hoped for a flowery hiding place. I also confused a few bees, including a GIANT bumble that followed me a for a few minutes to the delight of some tourists.
Lastly I found a wonderfully unusual comic in Orbital Comics, and I couldn’t resist buying it. It’s called MOA-192B by Stathis Tsemberlidis. The detail and imagination of the artwork is so inspiring. I might have to pick up more comics from Decadence Publishing.
Back in November of last year I was invited to do photography for an artist called 
