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\nFirst – I’m not dead, I just play a corpse on TV. It’s just been super busy, blah, blah, blah, and blogging fell off the radar for a bit.<\/p>\n

I’ll try to get back on the wagon again, however, starting with a brief report of some fine live music that Sub-Evil Boy and I enjoyed tonight at the Colchester Arts Centre<\/a> (a deconsecrated church – see some photos on Flickr<\/a>). The band Afro-Tema<\/a> played tonight as part of Black History Month here in Colchester<\/a>, and it was a smoking evening. Most of the show was long afro-pop jams, but with reggae and even latin songs thrown in here and there to mix things up. It was a five person outfit, with the leader and vocalist on keyboards and occasionally percussion, a fine and solid rhythm section (the drummer is gonna be one tired puppy), and excellent guitarist and sax\/flute players providing most of the melodic structure.<\/p>\n

The audience was surprisingly (to me) middle-aged (uh, something about pots and kettles?) and I was really worried that they were going to sit there and politely watch all night. The third song, however, was a reggae number, and that brought all kinds of people out of their chairs and up front, and the dance area was packed from then on. Sub-Evil has a very fun time at what was probably his first “grown up” club show, although the lateness of the hour did eventually catch up with us, and we left during a break. He got a cool idea for a song during a latin piece, though, so prepare yourselves for another wacky masterpiece!<\/p>\n

The (former) church on the left in the photo below is the Colchester Arts Centre. I think the guy on the left is part of the running of the Centre; I’ve certainly seen him there on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

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