This Irish / Celtic folk band provided entertainment for those who were, in theory, waiting for the balloon launches at the Canberra Balloon Spectacular... the launches that didn't come. I heard their name and it's not that I couldn't remember it, it's just that I couldn't parse it. Despite my own name being somewhat Celtic I'm actually a Roman (you may have heard of us, we were quite famous at one time) and each time the name was said by the announcer I could only think "You're who in the what now???"

I can't tell you how much Googling instinct and skill it took to find them, but I eventually did. The band is Cassidy's Ceili, with "Ceili" apparently being the Irish version of ceilidh, which Oxford describes as "A social event with Scottish or Irish folk music and singing, traditional dancing and storytelling".

They're local to the ACT and are actually quite good, even if they don't provide gladiator fights and chariot races.

I've recently been watching some video photography courses on Lynda.com by Ben Long, a guy whose sens of humour is even drier than mine if such a thing were possible. He belaboured the point that checking your shutter speed is something that should become "muscle memory" if you aren't shooting shutter priority mode... something that I always knew I should pay more attention to, and have been doing so in the last few days. And a shot like this is why. I was at ISO 400 which I thought was enough, I was wide open on the 24/105 (in itself perhaps not a great choice), and yet with the available light I couldn't do any better than 1/20th of a second with -1/3rd of a stop EV. The price that was paid was obvious; with them moving around on the stage a certain degree of softness was introduced (though this may be less obvious at web size).