The reason for a swift return to Copenhagen. Pretty good way to mark the end of another cycle around the Sun. There is just something special about seeing Radiohead. This might be my favourite birthday weekend gig yet.

Anna Von Hauswolff was a good warm up for a certain show tomorrow night. Though I didn't realise until tonight that Scandinavian cities may not be good for stand up gigs if you are short...

Taking a break from Bingeing For All Mankind to see Robert Laidlow's Exoplanets, a piece inspired by the sound of orbital resonances. I enjoyed how he made the orchestra create the feeling of a body falling through some sort of viscous liquid.

Thanks for the reminder to avoid anywhere near Hyde Park during winter wonderland season!

Love how Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon revisit The Only Tune every couple of years. This one at Sadler's Wells may be my favourite yet. The dancing skeletons and musicians also in skeleton outfits made the dark melody even more sinister and surreal.

Sam Amidon again, but this time with his all star friends band at the Union Chapel.. It was more like being invited to watch them jam and mess around, particularly the piano accompaniments from Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly.

Anyone who has played Sim City would have known this wouldn't have worked unless you used the cheat code.

Public Service Broadcasting at the Barbican. A mix of old and new material, and realised I far more enjoy the ones with a bit of a groove and interesting samples vs the slower ones. The encore felt more like a group of school teachers at the end of year disco.

Maybe we just need to find our slightly older indiekids from the 00s community

Haha yes. There was an article in the FT today about the Windmill, so maybe I've been looking in the wrong place?

Was also chatting to a colleague with an 18 yr old daughter who is going to gigs at the George and in Camden to find her people. Maybe I'm just getting old? on.ft.com/4oCieq7

Trip back to Oxford to see Headphone Wasp's first gig. Turned out to be a reunion of lots of familiar faces from many years ago. It made me realise how much I miss a tight knit scene and when I would just go to random gigs and find people to chat to.

Finally made it to Cafe Oto, after looking at their listings for years. It was Utopia Strong who got me there, and it had everything I wanted, synths, a recorder, two types of bagpipes and a champion snooker player.

Continuing the theme of watching bands I should have seen decades ago, tonight Idlewild. All it took was an early show at a venue within walking distance. I really need to revisit the back catalogue.

Daði Freyr said that we were either going to have a good time or a bad time, but not medium time. Always fun and uplifting to watch. And love how he's created a surreal creative career out of going viral.

My tip is to go through the process to pretend to leave and they may offer to give you another year at the discounted rate.