Proms I'm aiming to get to

• Friday 22nd August: Prom 48 "Classical Tectonics", in which the Iceland Symphony Orchestra do a volcanoes-themed gig. Aiming to queue from 6.45pm, maybe getting dinner at the South Ken Thai Square around 5.30?
  
• Sunday 24th August: Dvorak [cello concerto!!!], Beethoven & Janacek
  
• Monday 25th August: 1pm, Proms chamber music 6 (Mozart piano sonata in D major, Mahler piano quartet in A minor, Strauss Metamorphosen (for septet))
  
• Friday 5th September: the Berlin Phil play Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances & Stravinsky's Firebird
  
• Friday 7th September: Rach piano concerto #2, Tchaik symphony #5

Notes inspired by a panel: You Don't Like Me When I'm Angry

Panel description; very brief notes (300 words) of mostly navel-gazing about emotions.

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Extremely partial transcript: A Queerer War

~1200 words; extremely spotty transcript of the bits that grabbed me. Panel description:

Consideration of sexuality has been part of military SF since at least The Forever War, but while it's easier than it used to be to find militaristic SF novels that address queer experience -- Adam Roberts' New Model Army, say, or God's War by Kameron Hurley -- they remain uncommon. Let's talk about the implied or assumed links between combat, straightness, technology and morality, and how science fiction has succeeded and failed at complicating its understanding of the sexuality of war.

Duncan Lawie: moderator. The session is intended to run til 5:45. Primarily a reviewer, Arthur C Clarke judge - job is to keep his opinions to himself

Sarah Groenewegen: essayist, one essay in Queers Dig Timelords. Law enforcement in dayjob, in Australia, the UK and Netherlands.

Ann Leckie: author of AJ!

Tanya Huff: series of MilSF. Served in Canadian Navy as a cook for two tours (late 70s). Also has essay in QDT

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LonCon panel partial transcript: Cities - who, where and why?

Moderator Michael R Underwood, also featuring Zen Cho (Malaysia + London), Ian McDonald (Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast) Francis Knight, Yen Ooi (grew up in same area as Zen, moved to London for uni, lived in Tokyo for 2.5 years), Candas Jane Dorsey (Canadian city)

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[... and then my laptop died and I stopped transcribing. And that's as many panel notes as I'm going to post today, in the interests of not flooding you all!]