A Night with Jack

For our birthdays, our extremely generous friends Thierry and Adeline who live in Oman gave us tickets to the Jack Johnson concert in Hyde Park. We have been big fans of 'Jack' for several years, and actually introduced Thierry to him back in Cambridge. The chance to see him in Europe was quite rare as this was his first European tour so we were extremely happy to go to get the chance to see him. We only wish that Thierry and Adeline could have joined us in Hyde Park but at least they were able to see him in Paris a week later.

It was rainly slightly (as it does so often in London) as we arrived at Marble Arch but thankfully the weather cleared by the time the first opening act was done. After a couple opening acts, including Ben Harper who was fantastic, Jack came on for a solid two hours of feel good guitar music. We were quite far away but the sound was amazing and they had some really great screens and stage animations so we were quite happy.

The sun made a solid appearance throughout his set and we even got to enjoy a beautiful sunset.

It was a wonderful day and we can only say thank you once more to Thierry and Adeline for getting us the tickets.

If you haven't heard Jack Johnson, check out his website www.jackjohnsonmusic.com and click on the Featured Music on the upper right hand corner.

For anyone interested in getting a taste of the concert, check out this clip someone made on the day (we attempted one of our own on the phone but the quality was too rubbish to post)