seven seemingly insignificant days

'Research' for our big trip to the UK in five weeks time has most definitely included checking out concert dates for my favourite artists/bands, taking advantage of the fact that we'll be in 'major' cities where performers actually go.

Ben Folds hasn't got any tour dates planned (I still kick myself for not seeing him in Boston in summer of '04 when I so easily could have!!!); we'll be missing John Mayer's performance by a couple weeks or so (but we saw him last summer in Auckland, which was brilliant! Don't think we could top that); dates kind of match up with Maroon 5 (+Dashboard) but we'll have to figure out some way of getting to and back from cities outside London which might be a wee bit difficult so we'll see (although I saw Maroon 5 when they opened for John Mayer in Boston, '04); they must not like Yo-Yo Ma much in the UK cos it seems like he's going to all the key cities in Europe except the UK(!); and last, but not least, David Gray... DAVID GRAY... THE one performer I am dying to see at least once before I die, hopefully sooner rather than later. And what makes the whole situation just painful to think about is that YES, he will indeed be giving not one, but THREE performances in London, all of which I will be missing by ONE WEEK!!!! I have no words to describe my utter heartache. Oh what a difference a week can make...

Had I known this back in July when buying our plane tickets, I would have seriously pushed our trip forward by a week... it was a pretty arbitrary decision in the first place - we just chose random dates!! Oh what a difference a week can make...