Last Night

Last nights motorhead gig was fantastic, nothing quite like sweating your nuts off in a leather jacket drinking overpriced beer out of plastic cups. We had a great time.

Pre gig drinks were cut down to one pint as the pub in Fenchurch street we meet up in called last orders just after we arrived and we didn’t have time to stop off in any others on the way to Brixton. Brixton is an interesting place, every ten yards they have somebody selling drugs, the dealers must have outnumbered the police by at least 5 to 1.

We arrived at the venue just in time to hear the last half of Clutch’s set and drink some more beer before motorhead came on.
They let rip with DR Rock and as always happens when I see a band like this I got a silly grin on my face. I wont go into a track listing because 1; I don’t bother to list them 2; I don’t know them all and 3; I can’t remember it all anyway, however Ace of Spades did send the crowd mental.

My only disappointment was not getting drunk enough, it felt like the evening was incomplete, and I have tried to make up for it today.
It was nice to see so many other people who had dug out their leather jackets for the occasion and I couldn’t believe the age range of the people there, we spotted young teenage emo’s and chatted to a 59 year old Scotsman who had been kicked out for attempting to stage dive(respect). One friend said to me we only go to gigs like this because it makes us appear young, there may be some truth in that, but it was a good night.

Hopefully the photos will come out and then I’ll post them here.

ttfn

g day -2

G day minus two, or should I say two days till we go see motorhead.
I am totally prepared, I have just shaved so my stubble will be at the required length, my boots are just the right side of unpolished and I have selected the appropriate knackered t-shirt (Pearl Jam-Alive 1992 vintage). I have selected the correct spectacles and shaved my head and we have arranged a pub to meet up in before gig. We are ready.

This is slightly different to how I would have readied myself 15 years ago, I would have washed my hair at the appropriate time to reach hair perfection in time for the gig (usually two days before) and probably shaved at four days instead of two, I would have accessorized with wrist bands and other things such as belts and chains, and I only had one pair of glasses so no choice there. Apart from those few differences (mostly brought about be age) things are pretty much the same.

I have been talked out of taking my digital camera and will be taking a disposable so if I get any pictures there will be a slight delay in posting them.

Greenbank ‘B’ team

Cool football shirts, where can I buy one?

Thanks to Paula for bringing this one to my attention

Motorhead

Motorhead are one of those bands that you do not hear about, you just already know they exist. You may not have heard anything by them (if you live in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan) but you know they exist. I have never been a big fan (though I have three albums and an EP) but on the 25th some friends and I are off to see them at the Brixton academy, so I thought it was time to give them a listen and dig out what I had. I was shocked to discover the only thing I have on CD for Motorhead was the Ace of Spades which came on a free CD in the Daily Mail, this raised a few questions,1:how did Motorhead become respectable and acceptable to be on a freebee in the Mail? and 2: how did I end up buying the daily mail?

Back to the tapes I suppose.

To be honest the first time I came across the band I was most likely sneakily watching repeats of the Young Ones on BBC 2 on a little black and white telly in my bedroom (mother disapproved of the young ones), they also appeared in Eat the Rich (just discovered also stars shane macgowan) “The scene involving Lemmy riding a motorcycle is played by female stunt double as Lemmy was on tour with Motörhead in America at the time the scene had to be shot.” wikipedia.

Going to see Motorhead seems more like a pilgrimage than anything else, you should do it at least once in your lifetime.
Hopefully I will have some photos to show of the gig.

For those that know me this is not news but for everybody else here it is,
I have moved.
I have moved into my wife’s home (part of) town. On the surface it appears a nice quiet area, almost villagey, full of quaint old people doing quaint old things in quaint old ways, but take a trip up to the Tesco express, scratch the surface, just look around and you will see all the usual cousinfucks and weirdoes with their baseball caps and trousers tucked into socks. The population seems stranger than the place I just left and I thought that was the arse end of England; it had a nothing to recomendness about it, but here it has a more sinister nothing to recommend with an underlying threat about itness.
Take for example the guy who works in the local convenience store, first impressions make you think he is the village idiot on work experience, he is slow, mumbles and looks at the floor most of the time except when he stares through you, but as you listen to him you realize he has a dark intelligence about him, after a few meetings you wouldn’t want him near your children, a few more after that and I don’t think you would want to leave your parents near him. If society ever collapses I’m locking my doors until I know he’s gone.

We’re going to see motorhead, tehe.

we're going to see motorhead
hehehehe

that mtv episode

I have tried to remeber everything on that tape and find the video's. There are some missing like Little Angels Do you wanna riot, and whatever the song by Bonfire was( I won't inflict that on anybody) . the songs are not in any order.

There may have been others but I cant remember them.