sheff2van : sheffield -> vancouver

We had The Police playing at our local pub last night.

Or rather, we've just moved to our new apartment which is across the road from GM Place - the stadium where the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team play their home games and sometime music venue for touring bands.

They have reformed for a world tour of which this was the first date, and looking out the kitchen window we could see plenty of limo's taking the estemed audience home afterwards.

To be honest I'd forgotten they were playing in Vancouver as it was a while ago the date was announced, and it wasn't until I looked at the BBC News website the next morning I realised what had been on.

Initially I was confused why a two-year old story about how highly Vancouver is rated as a city was in the list of the top five most read stories. But then I realised that it must have been The Police's presence in the city that had drawn attention to it.

We went to see Jarvis Cocker last night. We had to really as he's also originally from Sheffield....

He was in Vancouver as part of a short tour to promote his recent solo album, co-incidentally also named Jarvis, which was released here about a month ago.

It was great to hear some music

Or at least absent from mainstream radio/TV

Any pointers from Vancouver locals welcome.....

It did make me a bit homesick

As Pulp are on my list of local bands that I've never seen, this slightly made up for it.