Nun and dead Cheerleader
Wheres Wally and V for Vendetta
Finger Food
Batgirl meets Batman
Me!
Me, my crossdressing cousin, Hulk Hogan
Supergirl has a nice cuppa
1015th
Nov
Nov
1023rd
Oct
Oct
On Thursday I went to the Garage for the Relentless Energy Sessions. Chrome Hoof, Does It Offend You Yeah? and The Sounds were all playing, and I got the tickets from my PureHMV account so I thought it would be a nice free night. It turned out to be a bit weird, because when we got inside it was only about half full and stayed that way for the rest of the night. Most of the crowd were just confused by Chrome Hoof, and although a section at the front livened up for Does It Offend You Yeah?, they quickly left after they had finished. By the time The Sounds took to the stage at around 10pm the room was about a third full and looked like a school disco gone wrong. It just made me feel uncomfortable really and I couldn’t get into the music, so we ended up leaving after about 5 songs. I don’t know if it was lack of advertising, or if people just weren’t interested, but it seemed really strange to me. We enjoyed Does It Offend You Yeah? anyway so the night wasn’t a total loss. They are supporting Linkin Park in November so hopefully I’ll see them with a bit of a better crowd next time.
On Friday afternoon I got an exciting email come through. After roughly 4 years of trying, I have finally got tickets to a recording of Never Mind The Buzzcocks! It’s for 2nd November and my boss has agreed to let me leave at 3pm so we can go and queue and guarantee our seats. I’m so excited, I hope they have good guests!
Today I went shopping to find some bits to finish off my Halloween outfit. Can you guess what I’m going to be? 😉
I also took a look in the 99p store (as I usually do, to see if they have any good bargains), and they had the Star Trek glasses that the American Burger Kings were giving away last year. I got the Spock and Kirk ones as we don’t have much room in our cupboards, but they all looked awesome.
This week I have lots of gigs coming up. Carl Barat on Wednesday at the Scala, Manic Street Preachers on Friday at Brixton Academy and The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Robots In Disguise on Sunday at Heaven. I also have a Halloween party to go to on Saturday so it’s a very busy week for once. Luckily I get paid soon!
107th
Oct
Oct
On Wednesday I went to see of Montreal at Koko which was an interesting experience. I’ve seen them before so I knew what to expect, but it was still great fun. They have live performance art on stage, with people dressed in lycra bodysuits writhing around with skull masks. It is all very surreal but so captivating to watch. The crowd were lovely and happy and not pushy and shovey, and the setlist was really great. Quite a bit from False Priest so I think I’ll have to get around to buying that soon. She’s a Rejector and an encore consisting of the whole of The Past Is A Grotesque Animal were my highlights.
Last night I was debating going to see Blood Red Shoes but I decided against it in favour of staying inside in the warm and watching Heroes. I spent 3 bloody hours drawing buttons for the new online shop! It’s almost done now, hopefully I can finish it at the weekend.
103rd
Oct
Oct
This week I finally sent off two films from my fisheye to be developed. I got them back today and was quite pleased with some of the results! They are from various nights out, Scotland, Reading Festival and Offset.
You can see the rest at the flickr set.
1029th
Sep
Sep
This week I received what I would describe as my personal holy grail of photopasses; Placebo at Brixton Academy. To say I was excited for this would be an understatement.
The first night I was just attending as a normal fan with my fellow Placebo enthusiast, Nikki, and my brother, so we got quite drunk and enjoyed ourselves. We made friends with randomers and danced around and probably annoyed the hell out of everyone around us, but it was great fun. I’m glad I still had the second night to go to as I didn’t remember it much!
The setlist was pretty standard, but they played All Apologies, Post Blue and new Teenage Angst so that was awesome. Not sure on starting with Nancy Boy, but it’s all good really. There were balloons with ‘Death and Fear’ printed on them, fuck tons of confetti, clowns firing tshirts from guns and all sorts of weird stuff. It was all filmed for a dvd and I can’t wait to see it! It’s been too long since the last one.
I was so nervous in the photopit, but I managed to get some good shots and not freak out too much. Security were ace and didn’t make us stow our cameras away, so I didn’t have to waste time inbetween acts.
You can read my official review and see the rest of the photos on my gig blog.