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andrewduckerErin's birthday on Sunday, so as to make sure she saw people, she decided to have it at Opium followed by Vain (rock bar followed by bleepy nightclub). I got the times wrong and posted 9pm on my journal, so people were there a while before Erin turned up...
I'd corresponded with two friends that Erin met at Whitby (Alex and Sarah - Diffrentcolours and Mistress Malaise) to offer them a place to stay when they secretly surprised her by driving up from Oxford to surprise her.
Sadly, their car broke down somewhere around the border and they had to drive back down. Boo! Hiss! Erin was simultanesouly amazed they were coming all that way to see her, saddened that they wouldn't make it and happy they wouldn't come up and discover that all of her friends were, in fact, goths.
Vain was sadly awful. It was their third birthday bash, so rather than play a collection of their most popular floor-fillers from the last 3 years they got a guest DJ to play a succession of music that nobody I know recognised, with the occasional dancable tune thrown in (well, danceable is an exaggeration - The Perfect Drug is not designed to be danced to). I got bored and left at 1:30, walking all the way back to London Road before finding a night bus. Erin got out of the club at 2:45 and nearly beat me home by miraculously finding an empty taxi right there.
Erin's hangover meant my Sunday morning was quiet, so I finally got Visual Studio.NET installed (hurrah for Mike), played around on the computer and sorted out a few things that I've been meaning to for a while. we then went to cards, where I did appallingly (I did fantastically on 6 of the hands, getting no points, and then spoiled it by taking vast quantities on two others). We followed this by joining Guy at the Blind Beggar pub quiz, where we tied for the lead. The tiebreaker was "What is the second book in the Dune Trilogy?" and both teams wrongly went for Children of Dune (rather than the correct answer Dune Messiah). I was completely wrong on the second tie-breaker, losing us the prize, but as nobody else knew who the blonde man was in Brideshead Revisited I don't blame myself too much (I guessed Julian Sands, obviously thinking of Room with a View).
Headed home, collapsed into unconsciousness, woken by Erin having midlife crisis (she's really not a fan of birthdays), got back to sleep at 1:30. May have been tactless and told Erin "I feel your pain and yes it's terrible, but now I must sleezzzzzzzzzz." but I don't really remember.
I'd corresponded with two friends that Erin met at Whitby (Alex and Sarah - Diffrentcolours and Mistress Malaise) to offer them a place to stay when they secretly surprised her by driving up from Oxford to surprise her.
Sadly, their car broke down somewhere around the border and they had to drive back down. Boo! Hiss! Erin was simultanesouly amazed they were coming all that way to see her, saddened that they wouldn't make it and happy they wouldn't come up and discover that all of her friends were, in fact, goths.
Vain was sadly awful. It was their third birthday bash, so rather than play a collection of their most popular floor-fillers from the last 3 years they got a guest DJ to play a succession of music that nobody I know recognised, with the occasional dancable tune thrown in (well, danceable is an exaggeration - The Perfect Drug is not designed to be danced to). I got bored and left at 1:30, walking all the way back to London Road before finding a night bus. Erin got out of the club at 2:45 and nearly beat me home by miraculously finding an empty taxi right there.
Erin's hangover meant my Sunday morning was quiet, so I finally got Visual Studio.NET installed (hurrah for Mike), played around on the computer and sorted out a few things that I've been meaning to for a while. we then went to cards, where I did appallingly (I did fantastically on 6 of the hands, getting no points, and then spoiled it by taking vast quantities on two others). We followed this by joining Guy at the Blind Beggar pub quiz, where we tied for the lead. The tiebreaker was "What is the second book in the Dune Trilogy?" and both teams wrongly went for Children of Dune (rather than the correct answer Dune Messiah). I was completely wrong on the second tie-breaker, losing us the prize, but as nobody else knew who the blonde man was in Brideshead Revisited I don't blame myself too much (I guessed Julian Sands, obviously thinking of Room with a View).
Headed home, collapsed into unconsciousness, woken by Erin having midlife crisis (she's really not a fan of birthdays), got back to sleep at 1:30. May have been tactless and told Erin "I feel your pain and yes it's terrible, but now I must sleezzzzzzzzzz." but I don't really remember.
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Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 04:26 am (UTC)I agree that Vain was crap... but I was referring to all stuff that you thought was good :) heh heh. The guest DJ-s were the people I was there for.. I'm also sure that it wasn't Perfect Drug they played... unless it was much earlier in the night and I missed it.
It sorts seems like the Edinburgh scene is primarily Goth while Glasgow is primarily Industrial.
Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 04:43 am (UTC)It wasn't that the music was the wrong genre, but none of it inspired danciness to me, and almost all of it was stuff I didn't know.
Perfect Drug was on before you arrived. I forgot to mention that I felt guilty about you :-> You arrived, I managed 4 sentences of stilted conversation, then ran away. I find it really hard to talk to even people I know when it's that noisy - talking to someone that I didn't know was pretty impossible.
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:04 am (UTC)At the start of the night I was running about, trying to find people I knew and say "hi" to them all. Then I found the group in the back corner and sorta hung about.
Yeah, it was too noisy for a proper conversation - and I didn't want to leave the room for a chat once the decent DJs came on.
Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:12 am (UTC)Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:17 am (UTC)I'd meant to look you up later on, but it never quite happened :)
Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:22 am (UTC)Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:27 am (UTC)Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:10 am (UTC)Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:59 am (UTC)Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 07:38 am (UTC)Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 08:29 am (UTC)I was a bit distracted at the time, anyway. As I said, I hadn't been long in and I was searching the room for anyone else I knew.
Shame I didn't get to chat before you left, though.
I would say, "next time" but I didn't like Vain, so who knows when! Maybe the Mission, some time?
Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-20 10:46 am (UTC)Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-20 10:53 am (UTC)Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-20 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 10:27 am (UTC)I'd have went, but I don't wear black.... ;+)
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 10:33 am (UTC)Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 04:50 am (UTC)Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:04 am (UTC)I'd wondered where you'd gone!
Magent
Re: Vain
Date: 2003-05-19 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-19 10:34 am (UTC)