Show tonight.
Hey All,
Last night I headed out to Dreadnought vs Strength Through Joy at the SE1, this weird little bunker/wine cellar/subterranean enclave just away from the London Bridge tube station. Having missed most of the party last time, this time I got there in plenty of time.
And found that it was a really slow night. It cold outside, two other clubs were happening and a great number of the usual suspects were absent for whatever reason.
To add insult to injury, some of the DJs responded by not playing the best tracks because the dancefloors were empty (ie save them for when people are there to dance to them, which they did later on). A sound strategy, except it left the people who were there feeling like they were stuck in a reflexive vortex of second gear.
Still, I did have fun talking to people, including a New Zealander who has been here for three months and a couple of other good pals of mine.
Later on I danced pretty hard and had fun. In all honesty, I haven't danced like that in months. Since the club ended at four AM, it was a chain of night buses to get home, but I had some new CDs on my ipod to ease the journey (the other day I splashed out a bit and got Yes Virginia - The Dresden Dolls, Dimension Hatross - Voivod, Devils Among Us - Walls of Jericho and a CD of Birthday Party songs covered by the 31G Roster).
Tonight I go to see Neurosis who are playing their yearly show in London.
Neurosis are strangely special in my heart because in the early days a good friend of mine took a liking to Uruk Hai because he could tell 'we totally were influenced by Neurosis'.
We would all say 'Exactly! We love Neurosis, we're so glad you could pick that up!'
Truth was, we didn't really know Neurosis from a bar of soap, we just played our strange tribal noise-metal the way we wanted to (except for me... I wanted to play Black Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore and tech-noise).
Anyways, time for me to get ready.
Over and out.
-J
Last night I headed out to Dreadnought vs Strength Through Joy at the SE1, this weird little bunker/wine cellar/subterranean enclave just away from the London Bridge tube station. Having missed most of the party last time, this time I got there in plenty of time.
And found that it was a really slow night. It cold outside, two other clubs were happening and a great number of the usual suspects were absent for whatever reason.
To add insult to injury, some of the DJs responded by not playing the best tracks because the dancefloors were empty (ie save them for when people are there to dance to them, which they did later on). A sound strategy, except it left the people who were there feeling like they were stuck in a reflexive vortex of second gear.
Still, I did have fun talking to people, including a New Zealander who has been here for three months and a couple of other good pals of mine.
Later on I danced pretty hard and had fun. In all honesty, I haven't danced like that in months. Since the club ended at four AM, it was a chain of night buses to get home, but I had some new CDs on my ipod to ease the journey (the other day I splashed out a bit and got Yes Virginia - The Dresden Dolls, Dimension Hatross - Voivod, Devils Among Us - Walls of Jericho and a CD of Birthday Party songs covered by the 31G Roster).
Tonight I go to see Neurosis who are playing their yearly show in London.
Neurosis are strangely special in my heart because in the early days a good friend of mine took a liking to Uruk Hai because he could tell 'we totally were influenced by Neurosis'.
We would all say 'Exactly! We love Neurosis, we're so glad you could pick that up!'
Truth was, we didn't really know Neurosis from a bar of soap, we just played our strange tribal noise-metal the way we wanted to (except for me... I wanted to play Black Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore and tech-noise).
Anyways, time for me to get ready.
Over and out.
-J
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