The Wit And Wisdom Of Peter Gabriel

In Birmingham to see Peter Gabriel at the NEC. Me and Pete, we go back a way. At my secondary school, tribes (and degrees of cool) were delimited by what album sleeves you carried around under your arm. At the time Tales From Topographic Oceans trumped the elves and wizards of Nursery Cryme. Until, of course, Rick Wakeman fell victim to the elves and wizards. Big Time. On ice. Then Pete had won. Who's laughing at someone dressed up as a daffodil now? The feared roadworks on the A45 were an ineffectual defence against us reaching the NEC ridiculously early, so we spent a long time chilling and people watching out front. Amusingly, quite a few of the original elves and wizards were in the Friday night crowd (original haircuts intact, minus the bald bits on top).

I'm blown away by this Sony HX20V. At a hundred quid, the Exmor CMOS sensor is a tiny gem. And the software's not bad either. If a camera as tiny as this can allow an eejit like me to snap pictures like these (and we were a long way back in a big arena, lots of dry ice), what is the future of photography? Peter Gabriel has the answer. After f*****g up the into to one song, he stopped the band and informed us that In the future, beauty will be found in the mistakes. Photography may have reached that point already. And I'm saving up or an a7. Sony, Like Peter Gabriel, has cracked it. We're all wizards now. At least, In My Eyes.