about xavitat | people | places | other stuff __OTHER STUFF OCTOBER 2011 This will blow your mind. LIFE IN A DAY AUGUST 2011 Patrick Ness: 'Why I wrote A Monster Calls' JULY 2011 Goodnight, Amy. XAVITAT MUSIC JUNE 2011 ROLAND GARROS!. APRIL 2011 XAVITAT MUSIC. MARCH 2011 JAPAN TSUNAMI APPEAL CONCERT Sunday 20 March 4pm LINBURY STUDIO THEATRE at the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Concert performance in aid of the Japan Tsunami Appeal, with former Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet Miyako Yoshida and friends, including: Yuhui Choe, Valeri Hristov, Hikaru Kobayashi, Ryoichi Hirano, Edward Watson*, Kenta Kura*, Akane Takada*, and students from the Junior Royal Academy of Music and Young Musicians. Tickets: ￡20 Running time: about one hour. *tbc HOW TO BOOK: Advance tickets available from the Royal Opera House Box Office in person and by telephone until 4pm TODAY (Saturday 19 March) Day tickets available at the door (cash only, donations welcomed!) Box Office telephone: 020 7304 4000 JANUARY 2011 THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE PRESENTS... I'm on this trailer! DECEMBER 2010 MERRY CHRISTMAS. Almost Sargent's. NOVEMBER 2010 Marina and The Diamonds live at the HMV Forum. Great gig! Photos and more on XAVITAT MUSIC soon. Chan Chan. Still the best. Final scene from LE MÉPRIS by Jean Luc Godard, 1963. XAVITAT MUSIC OCTOBER 2010 FIESTAS DEL PILAR 2010 "Como clarines de Gloria / Suena la Jota en la calle" AUGUST 2010 'Photo shoot' at the Conquest Hospital, Hastings (East Sussex)... Ouch. Photo shoot at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden). Photo by David McCoy. On days like these.... Madama Butterfly by Pjotr Sapegin. JUNE 2010 Free Fall MAY 2010 Lena wins EUROVISION 2010 for Germany with Satellite. Glückwünsche! Tear drops Blossom by Michael Aubtin Madadi. APRIL 2010 C'est une station spatiale. MARCH 2010 Det finns en hjälte... ANGRY BIRDS! JANUARY 2010 I want to live like common people / I want to do whatever common people do / I want to sleep with common people / I want to sleep with common people / like you... DECEMBER 2009 SEIZURE, an Artangel project by Roger Hiorns. SEPTEMBER 2009 September is January... JULY 2009 You rocked my world You know you did And everything I own I give The rarest love who'd think I'd find Someone like you to call mine... GONE TOO SOON. JUNE 2009 This is one of my favourite videos on the Net. Filmed by MerkabaPilot at the Burning Man 2005. MAY 2009 The wonderful REBECCA ROOT turns 40 (no way!). APRIL 2009 She did it all, and she stood tall... She did it her way. Rest in peace, Bea Arthur. More cool websites added to the LINKS section - on the right. MARCH 2009 Haven't stopped since the new year started. Work and what not have just about taken over my life in the last couple of months, so a nice weekend in PARIS with friends has been an absolute Godsend. DECEMBER 2008 / JANUARY 2009 My first Xmas in the new flat. This year I went a bit mad with the decorations and spent A Fortune in PAPERCHASE, but the place looked really cool - if that can be said at this time of the year... New Year was very good. Went to see the fireworks by the river after dinner; it was freezing cold, but the atmosphere was great. SEPTEMBER 2008 I have just got back from spending a few days visiting family and friends in SPAIN. Three cities in five days, as usual. I was shattered by the end of it and managed to catch a nasty cold, but it was great to see everyone. AUGUST 2008 London. 1 August 2008. The ROH Box Office bides a heartfelt farewell to ANTHONY McCUE and CHRISTOPHER CANN, who move to another Department after 10 glorious years among us. A sad day for the Box Office, but hopefully the start of a new and wonderful era for the Premium Gents at the best Opera House in the bloody world. JULY 2008 MALCOLM TYNDALL is officially not a spring chicken anymore (actually, spring chicken looked like THIS when Malcolm was young) Aaanyway... We did have a fantastic time celebrating his birthday at the races!. MARCH 2008 NEW NEPHEW! AIMAR was born on 2 March. JANUARY 2008 Here we go... DECEMBER 2007 Whatever happened to the last 12 months... It is Christmas all over again (oddly enough, it only hit me as I turned on the lights on the Christmas tree at home)... A bunch of us went down to WINTER WONDERLAND in Hyde Park, which was a lot of fun (and absolutely freezing!) This month is very special for I am celebrating... 10 YEARS IN LONDON I will certainly toast to that and to the next 10 years. And to absent friends. . Photo: Christmas at my first house in London (28 Chester Road, Walthamstow). December 1997. Look at those trousers... SEPTEMBER 2007 STEVE & JOHN's ANNUAL TREASURE HUNT This year's Treasure Hunt took us to ROCHESTER We had such a great time!. xavitat © 2011 about xavitat | people | places | other stuff