Dark Trixx

Was fun. I played ( gothy crap. You know the stuff )

I knew exactly one person there apart from taoist_goth, so it wan't exactly socially hectic. I kept myself busy worrying about what to play and how people were going to react, though, so I wasn't bored. I'm very tempted to rig up a toilet roll for people to tear off request slips at the next Calling.

The turntable kindly lent me by dennyd provided sterling service, and I'm very grateful. I seem to have somebody's CD of "Off the bone" by the Cramps. As I already have it as a proper record, I don't need it - I assume it's somebody who's done a Calling set recently. Any ideas?

Dark Trixx is just by Alencon Link, which is where a lot of civil service recruitment used to be/is based. Ten or so years ago, when I was spending reasonable periods of time rotting on the dole (rather than in the fens) this was an address I used a couple of times. It feels very odd to just happen past a place that used to seem so remote.

Oh yes. The eighties. It were great. Unemployment . . . cruise missiles . . . Go West and Rick Astley on Top Of The Pops . . .

Billy Bragg had some interesting comments on Eighties Discos and "reliving the Thatcher years" that I may have summaried in an earlier entry. As I recall, it degenerated into a discussion of Neubauten, and of metalbashing industrial bands in general (he approves, incidentally).

Throwing Muses minus 4 days and counting.