Quite a freeform weekend this week, it started nicely with an unexpected gig – Red Light Company playing at Proud Gallery in Camden Stables Market. They are quite jangly indie with a nice wall of noise guitar thing going on behind the jangle, the myspace songs are fairly representative of their general style. Sadly the mix was doing some really poor things to the vocals but apart from that it was a top gig. The venue is a little odd, being what appears to be a photo or art gallery at the top of one of the buildings in the market, so the stage was relegated to a corner while the main bar and seating area didn’t afford any kind of view of the bands. I saw only one of the other bands before heading off, they seemed to be wanting to be the Jam and a really beautiful guitar sound without any inspiration to go with it. Disposable in a live setting, probably fantastic when recorded and properly produced. If there was ever a band that needed to take more drugs it was these guys – and I’m not generally a supporter of such things.
Then friday I had a day off to get on the case with sorting my accounts out. I decided that if I didn’t physically take the papers to Cambridge myself it was never going to happen so I headed north, leaving it a bit late because I wanted to finish unblocking my sink first, straight into traffic on the M25.
Into town and the coffee shop in Borders is full so I head down to Carringtons over the way, which is remarkably empty considering the busyness of the street above, to plan the rest of my weekend and try to figure out which car to buy next (more in a later post).
It seems that my vague plan of heading to Norwich is falling apart because nobody else is going….so I head up to Kings Lynn instead, where I end up (trying to avoid) playing a FPS (sadly god mode deactivated). (I feel a bit bad about this because poor Matt has put some effort into setting up the game arena – but I’m not very good with the first person shooter format, it makes me a bit travel sick because of the lag, ref the ginger incident last year, which was, I think, actually caused by playing GTA)
Hunstanton for a breezy walk by the sea on Saturday, with donuts and tack shops and a nearly closed funfair. Then south to toadshamens party where there were a number of people reliving earlier days and falling over rather more than expected. Ho hum, I kept a cautious distance.
Then today, driving south back to home there was something of a temperature gradient from 12C in Huntingdon to 2C twenty miles later, and the hail was settling (and unsettling at the same time). Thankfully there was a similar gradient the other way and the sun was back soon.