Girl with a violin / Chess Boxing

[lathany]

Today I met up for a drink after work with two friends who are former work colleagues. One of them spent some of the evening telling us about having been given tickets by his nephew to go and watch chess boxing. We couldn't quite believe that the Royal Albert Hall would run such a thing in its loading bay, but apparently chess boxing is real ('cos Wikipedia says so). My friend said the audience were more interested in the chess rounds than the boxing. He also said that the competitors all seemed to be bankers and were cracking in-jokes.

I retaliated by telling them all about watching The Final Fantasy Concert which was also at the Royal Albert Hall. Usually this wins me the "attended weirdest event" award. Not this time.

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Interesting. My friend thought it was worth seeing, but very weird.