Top 5 days ever… and, of course, why…
* The Horatii, Manuskript & Emma Conquest gig in London – a stunning gig at the Borderline, full to capacity, loads of great music. Nearly spoiled by having a girlfriend dying of asthma but I wasn’t going to let that distract me from enjoying it.
* The day I first hired a car – there was something that just clicked in me that day, that I could do it myself, I was independent at last. There is a corner on the A11 heading from Norwich toward London, just before it meets the A14, which always brings back that feeling.
* The day I had the interview for my first tech job – again I’d hired a car from Norwich, but I had headed over to stay with Paul in Nottingham. We’d been out to some club in Sheffield the night before so I was a bit hazy getting up early enough to get to Northampton for 10am and didn’t really care that much about the interview. I drove back to Nottingham afterward to pick up the boys and head back to Northampton for a Manuskript gig.
* Seeing the Sisters of Mercy at Taubertal – this was really more of a weekend than a single day, but the Sisters were probably the highlight. Four of us (minusbat, godgirl, charlie_mouse and me) piled into minusbats cute but small NX to hare across Germany to a festival in a small Bavarian valley. There were bifurcated butterkeks, standing on the car sending email, popping in to see Eileen since we were just passing, and, of course, some top bands. The sound was wonderful, the setting beautiful, the company exquisite, the locals German and the weather gorgeous. Such a good weekend that even being punched in the kidneys by a mad drunk Belgian (or maybe German, I don’t know) didn’t put a damper on it.
* The day I got my (our) first computer – a ZX spectrum, way back in the early 80s, I remember the day, it was a hot sunny day and we got the machine in Tunbridge Wells, we went for a drink in the park cafe afterwards and I had a can of cola that fizzed everywhere. I remember being very excited but there was no way at the time that I would have expected to be doing what I’m doing now but without that computer I wouldn’t be /here/ now.