And so I'm off out to hear Vivaldi's Four Seasons played out by the Festive Orchestra of London tonight down at St Martin-in-the-Fields, at a night, not so surprisingly, entitled : Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight. Sounds terrific, excepting for the fact that I'll be going on my bloody own! Again. Flaky mates. Too many show tickets wasted by me, and I've been wanting to do this for ages, so lets see how we get on.

A treat for the ears this is! Anyone remember how effective this was in soundtracking the harshness of all that is the Requiem For A Dream movie? I found it showing over the weekend at around 2am in the morning, and must have only managed about a half hour before deciding to pack it in for fear of what was still to come. Strange, this is perhaps the only film I know that gets me feeling the way I do.

Carrying on with a classical slant for today. The Beethoven posting from a few weeks ago proved fairly popular, and so has given me the idea to try and do a few more music selections from the tiny classical side of my music collection. This one was actually brought to my attention by the missus following that very same Beethoven post, and I hope that it finds favour with yourself in much the same way as it did me.

Feeling the chilled vibes, on this equally chilly UK Monday morning, with this Belgian choir cover of the hit track by Swedish electro-poppers : The Knife. Not amazing, not wow, not you-gotta-hear-this, though a nice enough little listen, and something that might find a position in your relaxed festive playlist for the end of the year. See how you go.

Wow, what a whirlwind past few days it has been for me. For a start I met a pretty amazing woman for the first time on Sunday, and it was that same minute of first meeting that saw us leave London for Manchester by car to catch a Yeah Yeah Yeahs gig at the Manchester Apollo. True!