Aside from spotting jwz pondering the viability of SimKafka, what have I been up to this week?
For some reason I didn’t really get into The Calling on tuesday – the music wasn’t lively enough, or maybe I wasn’t lively enough. It wasn’t helped by the presence of someone who brought back a whole bunch of my past that really isn’t stuff I want to get back to. I hope this was a freak occurence rather than a regular event, some things are best left in the past.
Wednesday was the Rome Burns gig at the Moon in the Man, but I had a meeting in town that finished at 6pm, so I headed down and started getting in the way early – usual pregig hanging around punctuated by occasional concern about where to balance Gregor so he’d be out of harms way, NFD, the main act, had filled up the stage with their kit to the extent that there wasn’t enough space for them as well (one of their guitarists spent most of the soundcheck in place where the pit should be).
RB themselves rode their technical difficulties well, with a little more information than necessary about their antics in the park while Gregor was being rebalanced following a disasterous mixing accident.
NFD indeed didn’t fit on the stage when their time came. But I’m such a lightweight that I had to leave after a couple of songs to fall asleep. Shame. They had a good sound, even if it was hardly groundbreaking.
Thursday night I completely failed to get to Octaine, I’m gonna have to make it to the next one…
Yesterday I went on something of a tour of the southeast, picking up a final part of paperwork, a delicious curry (from the place opposite the Mexican place by the square, triangle, whatever) and a round or four of grass (John didn’t really know what was going on since we’d not managed to coherently[0] explain the rule to him, but that didn’t stop him winning anyway).
Today I’ve been finishing with a hectic whirlwind of paperwork. The weekend has landed.
Anyone likely to be out and about in Cambridge tomorrow evening? Wanna meet up?
[0] Due to two parts forgetfulness, one part enebriation and one part illiteracy
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