In concert

One of the things I swore I would do when I was pregnant with C, ten years ago, was carry on doing all the things I liked doing before I had children. I was not a fast learner and it took me over a year before I fully realised that my life had changed and I could not carry on doing all the things I did before I had children, in exactly the same way.
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One of those items on my long list of "Things I shall continue doing, with children in tow" was going to see live music. I do still go to see music I really love, but not very often, and I pine for it. One of my favourite bands, Royksopp, played at the Royal Festival Hall tonight, and for the first time in ten years, rather than organising a babysitter, we took the children with us.



We took them out to dinner first, and filled them with pudding. They were excited!
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I'm so glad we took them. The music was much more to our taste then theirs, but hey, we're the parents, so we get to choose the music. They can go and see things like Linkin Park or The Pussycat Dolls by themselves - when they're old enough to buy their own tickets. They loved the lighting, were rather amazed at all the dancing and screaming that went on, and had taken enough in to talk about all the different tracks we heard as we travelled home, rather dozy, on the late tube.
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Even O, who fell asleep in the penultimate song.
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