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I mean the band, not th photographic device.
I have a spare ticket for tonight's gig at Kings College SU (Macadam Building, WC2R 2NS).
Free to the first claimant who wishes to come with me.

Who's interested?

Forgot to say in my last entry. Thank you for asking about me after my mini hiatus. This weekend was pretty mad. I miss the hedonism, in a way.

Friday night started off with the carter usm gig, and it was great to see nearlyeveryone there.
There were 2 songs I couldn't identify. I'll update with the setlist later.

I was really quite disappointed that they didn't play anything from the world without dave album.
Like many of us, I strongly link music to past periods and events. Carter usm remind me very much of the mid 90s, as that's when I got into them. (sadly the tail end of their career, until this comeback, but I did get to see them twice). That's the time when I was partyway through college and beginning to form social circles. There were a couple of notable exeptions, but I generally didn't enjoy school and came away with very few friends. I don't associate it in a lamentful way, but more the liberation that college allowed me to make.

Later that evening a few of us decamped to south london for the housewarming party. This was excellent fun, even if I did only get less than 4 hours sleep, from 5am :-) woke up at 9 from the corner in whbich I'd crashed and carried on partying.

Left at 2pm, headed home, changed, ate, and headed out again. Stay beautiful was the event in question. To the indie kids on my flist, I must take you along sometime. Admittedly I was too tired to enjoy it fully but it was still a great night nonetheless.
(thank you cybermuppet for providing such an "entertaining" sideshow ;-) got home at 4am. The walk home from the bus stop was bizarre, but typical of the saturday closest to bonfire night: smoke hanging in the air, smell of spent explosives and the occasional bit of debris.

Sunday: woke up at 10 and decided that I was too tired to make it to church for sunday ringing. Went back to sleep again and woke at midday. Later in the afternoon I went out for nye's unbirthday party at pendrel's oak in holborn. Was a quiet fun afternoon spent chatting and playing games.

Got back home around 10 and caught up with people online.
I like weekends like this.

On Monday 27th I met Kay at Euston station. We got a few photos of a monument in Leicester square called Seven Dials, but it was raining. See my later post on that.

Tuesday we met squigfried and then went to the Sigur Ros gig. I've been wanting to see them for a long time - I even considerd going to see them in Berlin (I think it was) in their 2003 tour.

Words cannot describe how awesome it was. Much of it was moving to the point of tears and it will remain etched in my memory for time to come. If you like Sigur Ros, then do absolutely anything you can to see them live. You will not be disapointed.

( Set list )

The support band had an awful start, but they quickly improved with their second song, sounding rather like Mogwai on their Kids Will Be Skeletons album. I wish I could remember their name - I'd like to dig out more of their stuff.

I took a few photos, but they're nothing special. For long distance work I really need an SLR rather than a compact.

Major annoyance of the night was losing 15 quid somewhere (though oddly I still could account for 10 quid of the 25 I was expecting to find), meaning also that I couldn't get a t-shirt. I'll probably end up getting one on ebay. Hopefully they won't be too extortionate.

Here's a backdated entry to sneak in.
I read on UA that the Leveller had played in Manchester and I'd annoyingly missed out. I checked their tour diary and foud out that they were later playing in London, so I called up the box office and found out that there were still spaces, though sadly standing.

They were awesome, as they usually are, though I wasn't over impressed with the venue. Maybe it was where I was standing - at the back of the upper gallery.

Rar. I've jsut bought (what I'm told is) the last remaining standing ticket for A Perfect Circle for February's gig.

I also bought one for Air, in the following week.

If anyone is going to either of these (*looks at david et al.* for APC), do you want to meet up for pre-gig drinks?

Harry's Bar? Or the one next to the apollo? (I've preference for the first on grounds of cost and crowded-ness)