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Music - Page 13

  • The Second Gig

    WELL, there is so much  that happened and so little that I am prepared to say.. haha

     

    It all started rather badly to be brutally honest, my mate wasnt allowed in which was a bit of a blow and made me feel like a complete bastard but oh well... I had to get in, there was nothing gonna stop me from hearing the wonderful tones of mr. John Hassall (and Harmony Williams, and even occasionally Andrew Dejan-Jung).

    So I got in and there was a band on for about 5mins only so i didnt really get much of that, then there was another band, no idea who they were (i really should have listened for the names but as i didnt i shall just list them in chronological order of performance until Yeti) and they were crap to put it bluntley, so I was bored, my mate wasnt there and I had at that point no alcohol in my system. That was soon to change though a nice Fosters was headed my way, which i drunk pretty quickly in the hope that it may liven me up a bit.

    The third band on were there 'cos they won some channel 4 competiton or sommat and despite a shaky start I actually thought they were pretty good but unfortunately dunno who they were so it doesnt matter

    More drinks of course followed and then another band took to the stage again pretty decent but it might just have been that the alcohol was beginning to mess with my brain at this point - In physical appearance they looked like a typical bunch of scousers and if i remember rightly they were so my judgement cant of been that bad.

    By the time the 5th band were on we had moved right up to the front, near the stage in preperation for the band that as far as I was concerned was the main event - the 5th band were again not bad, the lead singer had pretty decent hair aswell and amongst the jubilation of the performance there was a lot happening.. including Rachaels hair nearly being set on fire and a strange dude who was almost certainly drugged up walking around and looking for his mate.

    Then.... YETI. They were again brilliant despite the fact that I was in so much pain cos i needed 2 go piss really badly yet knew i wouldnt b able 2 get back to the front if i did. Any way that aside they again played all the top tunes allthough i did miss the insect eating man song that they did the other night, was a shame but still was awesome. I have made my decision, Merry Go Round is deffinately my favourite of their tunes.

     

    We had to leave straight after Yeti, despite I believe 1 band still left to play, but we needed to get to the station before the last train and because i didnt kno when that was, 12 seemed a good time to leave. More fun and games happened on the train with the avoiding of the "mixture of scrambled egg and salmon" looking/smelling vomit on the floor and the wind tunnel affect on Caits hair. Ah but then again they all got off at Bank, goodbye hugs, then I sat down, plugged in the MP3 and then away to Colliers Wood.

     

    My mate was ok though, he went and had a general booze up in Wimbledon and so said that it was ok, I have let him off paying for his ticket aswell 'cos I am just that nice.

     

    No more Yeti in London for the foreseeable future ;'(, oh well, see all you lovely people again some time

  • KOKO @ Camden

    Well due to Wednesday being such a great day I thought it only right that I should make plans to attend the gig at the KOKO club on 4th August. And this time I am telling my mates with a good week and a halfs notice rather than the 2 days I gave last time and already that is looking to be paying off with one saying its a good chance he will come (I havnt yet told him about the 2am finish but we'll work on tht).

     

    Yeti are rapidly moving up amongst my favourite bands. My favourite track of theirs, om not sure yet it was never lose your sense of wonder, then merry go round but since the gig in like with you and keep pushing on are in there aswell, its too close to call - but I have to point out that John Hassall although brilliant in every way is still no Pete Doherty, he may be playing silly buggers with drugs but he is still the most legendary legend ever.

     

    As far as bits that I left out of the last blog, beer spilling over myself - thank you miss rachael I did leave it out for a reason, although it wasnt my fault I was making my way through a very crowded pub holding too full to the top pints, just because laura was using me as a battering ram to give her an easy path through just not fair.

    Yes the skirt made entirely of ties was indeed very impressive, the colours were lovely but the twirl to show it off could have used some improvement

    Photographer who I believe goes by the name of Malcolm was mad, he let PNB get hold of the camera I mean I just dont understand it, but apart from that he did take some good pictures, I'm sure he wont mind me advertising them www.mckipper.co.uk go to the bit about Yeti of course. Although he didnt manage to put up any of the direct pictures of us as a group I do believe I found myself in one of them, yes that tall gangly figure behind the pole, unless im mistaken it is me.

    Umm short people with funny names and sommat about Jesus I cant remember and my trainers are old but trustworthy so dont mock them

     

    Thats about it for now, to Cait, Rachael, Laura and whatever the names were of all the others, hope to see you all at KOKO, farewell

  • Yeti of course

    Well lets just start this by saying all my mates are lazy arseholes who are all wankers, but now that weve got that out the way we can start about the gig.

     

    The journey up there was admittedly a tad long but I dont care it was worth it. Me and PNB got into the Boogaloo pub at around 7:30 and started as we meant to go on, getting in a few drinks. Old Laura came in a bit later already half bladdered from her bottle of gin. Then introduced us to a bunch of fine young ladies. Although I think John was a bit too much to handle on the first meeting for most of them. Me being the shy old soul that i am only talked to john and the lovely Laura

     

    When the warm up band came on I was thinking at least we're getting started but in fact I preffered the drinking and chatting, at least it wasnt the most dull music of all time dont get me wrong, it doesnt offend the ears like a celine dion but it just was very very boring, the only reason i didnt boo was because I was only a couple feet away from the band.

     

    But then... YETI. yes twas amazing played all the classics (if you can call them that) plus a selection of songs that I had never heard before. Hopefully they'll do an album in the not too distant future. The amazing deafening sound that was being produced was just too good. Wooo and I was so close to an ex-Libertine, its my dream although dumb arse me didnt get anything signed. But he did take one of Laura's fags, both of them dirty smokers.

     

    Then it was time to depart, back to Highgate tube station - although it did appear that we left at least 2 people behind who should have been coming with us, but I didnt know them so wasnt really my problem. Laura couldn't hide her love for me, making me give her hugs. so it was 3 lovely lasses, me and john on the train down, Laura off her head and making what were quite possibly very offensive messages behind a newspaper ;). Conversations followed about shoes and films and due to John boobs for a short while. The ladies all got off at Bank and me and john went on down towards the southern end of the northern line. Got to Colliers Wood, went home, watched a bit of telly, went to bed, the end.

     

    Again Lazy Wankers

     

    Just incase you think I am being mean to Laura, it was meeting her that was the highlight of the evening :)