Status: Recently Rocked

So yesterday Chrissi and I went up into London to see the musical We Will Rock You, based on the various Queen songs. It was enjoyable - a lot to recommend about it. As with all musicals based on existing songs as opposed to where the songs are written to fit the musical, the story always leaves something to be desired.

This, as you can readily imagine, is particularly the case with Queen's discography - a lot of their songs are simply plain surreal, although I was amused that they managed to get lyrics from Bicycle in there. The script was witty, with some good throwaway lines that got some good laughs - and there was a recently penned line referring to Brian May's performance at the Olympics closing ceremony (see earlier blog).

The actual plot was based around how rock and roll was banned, as were all musical instruments and identikit musical clones had taken over the world (part nonsense, part documentary). However, Queen had hidden some guitars somewhere which would then allow our heroes to let rock back into the world and overthrow the totalitarian corparocracy. Something along those lines, anyway.

It's also stiflingly hot right now. There was a thunderstorm this afternoon, which I had hoped would be the necessary break - but it's just as hot, if not hotter, this evening - which is why I'm still up and still awake writing this at just before midnight. I've not checked the weather for the rest of the week, hopefully it's not too bad - a quick aside to review shows that it'll be cooler and much less humid tomorrow and throughout the week. Let's hope they are right!