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zotzLate Sunday night. It's been a good weekend. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrph's been over since Friday, so he turned up in the pub on Friday, and in the pub on Saturday, then today he was in . . . the pub. The occasion was, of course, the Chaos Engine/Swarf/Psychophile gig at the Boat Race, organised on behalf of the local Rocksoc by eviltwinemma, to whom much kudos.
It was a highly excellent concert. I can't stress this strongly enough. All three bands were on top form, even though Psychophile's possibly-temporary possibly-permanent (I'm not sure) new keyboard player had broken his arm two days earlier - and was therefore sporting a very stylish PVC sling. I liked Swarf more than when I've seen them before. I've never quite seen why people rave about them (I've always found them tight, tuneful but curiously unmemorable) but I think perhaps I'm starting to see the point. I even bought one of their records. And the Chaos Engine were (as usual) big, bold, loud, hammering and terrific. I bobbed awkwardly at the front, drank too much and talked shite at people on the way home.
Friday was the final office move at work. This has been in the offing (but delayed due to repeated floods) for well over a year, and wasn't finally very painful. Whether it stays that way remains to be seen.
I had a dream about my bastard ex the other night. She'd moved into a house around the corner and I was pointing out to her where I wait for the bus in the morning. It was all curiously relaxed and matter-of-fact. Still, if I'd dreamed I was going after her with an axe, I'd be a little perturbed by that too. Maybe it's just as well.
Ho Hum. Sir William Bragg and his ensemble are in town tomorrow. Should be good. I haven't seen him in about seven or eight years, at least. The new album had arrived, but the postie shoved it under the back gate rather than leave it in the open by the front door. If he'd left a note saying that it was there. then I would have found it in less than 48 hours and it woulnd't have gotten wet. Still, it dried out fine. Sounds good, as well. From the reviews, I was expecting to be a little disappointed, but I'm not. Maybe I just have a higher tolerance of ranting socialist songwriters than the average.
mrph's been over since Friday, so he turned up in the pub on Friday, and in the pub on Saturday, then today he was in . . . the pub. The occasion was, of course, the Chaos Engine/Swarf/Psychophile gig at the Boat Race, organised on behalf of the local Rocksoc by eviltwinemma, to whom much kudos.It was a highly excellent concert. I can't stress this strongly enough. All three bands were on top form, even though Psychophile's possibly-temporary possibly-permanent (I'm not sure) new keyboard player had broken his arm two days earlier - and was therefore sporting a very stylish PVC sling. I liked Swarf more than when I've seen them before. I've never quite seen why people rave about them (I've always found them tight, tuneful but curiously unmemorable) but I think perhaps I'm starting to see the point. I even bought one of their records. And the Chaos Engine were (as usual) big, bold, loud, hammering and terrific. I bobbed awkwardly at the front, drank too much and talked shite at people on the way home.
Friday was the final office move at work. This has been in the offing (but delayed due to repeated floods) for well over a year, and wasn't finally very painful. Whether it stays that way remains to be seen.
I had a dream about my bastard ex the other night. She'd moved into a house around the corner and I was pointing out to her where I wait for the bus in the morning. It was all curiously relaxed and matter-of-fact. Still, if I'd dreamed I was going after her with an axe, I'd be a little perturbed by that too. Maybe it's just as well.
Ho Hum. Sir William Bragg and his ensemble are in town tomorrow. Should be good. I haven't seen him in about seven or eight years, at least. The new album had arrived, but the postie shoved it under the back gate rather than leave it in the open by the front door. If he'd left a note saying that it was there. then I would have found it in less than 48 hours and it woulnd't have gotten wet. Still, it dried out fine. Sounds good, as well. From the reviews, I was expecting to be a little disappointed, but I'm not. Maybe I just have a higher tolerance of ranting socialist songwriters than the average.
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Oi!
Date: 2002-03-11 01:42 am (UTC)More seriously, cheers muchly for coffee, company and interesting music. It was a fun weekend, and the Firewater CD is now on my "must buy one of these days" list. As is the HMHB "Editor's Recommendation" CD...
Re: Oi!
Date: 2002-03-11 02:20 am (UTC)Well evidently not, you were in the Boat Race too ;)
Exactly.
Date: 2002-03-11 02:39 am (UTC)See - I'm not just a beer obsessed layabout! I like music, too. :)
arse!
Date: 2002-03-11 05:56 am (UTC)Re: arse!
Date: 2002-03-11 06:07 am (UTC)And then, after a while, you'll post. Just once. Not because you're going to start using the site, oh no. And then you'll post again. And again. And before you know it, you'll be assimilated, wondering if 5 posts/day is too many, and you'll have a permanently open client window on your desktop. And then it'll be too late.
Or I could just be projecting here.
Re: arse!
Date: 2002-03-11 06:38 am (UTC)I've lured various Coventry people that way, and (more generally) it's amazing how many long and busy journals start with a small post saying "I'm not going to write anything here, I've only signed up so I can see what my friends are doing". Snerk.
Re: arse!
Date: 2002-03-11 06:45 am (UTC)Re: arse!
Date: 2002-03-11 08:12 am (UTC)Well if you do want an account, just say and one of us can give you a code for a free one - just so you can keep a friends list, or something.
Yeah. I think I've got about a dozen of the things lying around too.
Re: Oi!
Date: 2002-03-11 08:16 am (UTC)You make it sound like I spent the entire weekend in the KSR!
Well, to a first approximation . . .
As is the HMHB "Editor's Recommendation" CD...
I should really have played you "Irk the Purists." I have a feeling you're the sort of person to appreciate it. If you know anybody with the album "Trouble Over Bridgwater", it's track one.
Re: arse!
Date: 2002-03-12 03:03 am (UTC)Donnla.
[1] it's a private thoughts diary, so no, y'cannae read it, nay. I could have a public and private me like Gar o'Donnell in Philadelphia here I come.
Re: arse!
Date: 2002-03-12 11:53 am (UTC)Belated Query ...
Date: 2002-03-23 04:12 pm (UTC)Re: Belated Query ...
Date: 2002-03-24 01:12 pm (UTC)