We went to the last of the Mate and Biscochos events last night, it was extremely good. The evening was introduced by this guy and he'd been using a version of the same intro each time so it's good practice for our Spanish.

The music was mainly classical guitar, modern compsers though so there was a fair bit of unusual guitar use (playing harmonics and both hands using the fretboard and a good amount of hitting the guitar for percussion).

Martín, the guitarist, is phenomenal. He said hello after the show and seemed really pleased that we had turned up to three of his shows.

I bought one of his CDs but when I put it in the 'puter it turned out to be blank (I've sent him an email).

Update: Martín has just dropped off a replacement CD which makes him, not only an amazing guitarist, but an all round fine bloke (gracias a vos Martín) The CD was worth the wait too.

On the way home we went into the Bangalore pub. Someone had given me the card for it months ago. It's in the part of Palermo called Palermo Hollywood because a) it's full of the TV and Film companies and b) estate agents found that they can charge Americans higher prices to live there.

Next to the Bangalore there's a big v posh looking club where they were delivering an ice sculpture, probably a wrap party or something (or maybe just the Bush Daughters having a private do?).

The Bangalore itself is a Pub/curryhouse. Like most of the English/Irish pubs, it's done out with a traditional bar. We ended up upstairs though sitting on cushions (pouffes). As anyone who knows me can attest, I'm not a fan of blazing hot curries, and both Liz and I picked something off the menu with a single chilli (denoting hotness, the scale went from none to three, for the beef vindaloo).

We had chicken pakoras to start, and it seemed like someone had forgotten the spices (the curries mother used to make were hotter). Then the main courses came and we discovered that the Argentines really don't like spicey food. If anything the mains, with one chilli, were milder than the pakora, milder than blancmange. Reasonable flavour underneath, good fresh ingredients but we'll go back (happy hour is 2 pints for AR$8) in order to try the vindaloo, hoping that it migh be as hot as the Kashmiri's mildest korma.   ¶ 5:04 PM