Some place in southend (called focus maybe?) - A bunch of bands played. The only one i remember is 3 short planks, coz they're my mates. They were pretty good, but i cant really remember coz i was comin down off a heavy smoke. I also rember somebody called jenny moss.............lol. Also about were lots of pissheads including one random bird who came up to me told me she was on speed and to keep it a secret. ooooooooook.
Raging Speedhorn, Ill nino, vacant stare at astoria.
-Absolutely brilliant, although i completely ignored ill nino coz me and al were a bit wrecked.
Fat Surfer in grays. Pains'brook and some other band
-Pretty good but samey (although i had food poisoning so i dont know if you can believe me on this one). The other random band seemed alright whoever they were, but charlie will tell you they sang the lyric "you reached up and touched my nob". The place was also damn cold, and looked almost like a wedding reception with tables along one side and a bar on the other. The people there also had no respect for themselves as one pisshead bird got hold of one bloke, went in the toilet with another and then got fingered by a DIFFERENT one. SLAG!!!!!!!!
Hardcore all-dayer at the forum, kentish town.
Too many bands to rember even though some pulled out. erm............
Discipline, stamping ground, agnostic front, all boro kings, biohazard, hatebreed, born from pain, erm might have been more but i've forgotten.
To be honest i got a bit bored at this gig, although it was damn good. The pit was also absolutely insane and actually scared me for biohazard (who were fantastic!)
31st jan 2003
The big, The fillaments and blucircle at the marconi club. Oh dear i was bladdered. Just ask hany. Blucircle got ignored for a bar that served absolutely anyone, including 12 year olds. Damn cheap too! �2.14 for a pint of stella, which is quite impressive. Still fantastic, and the singer from the big is HUGE, maybe even 7ft tall! Jumpin about next to him helped make my night. (although it left me hung over for the fishies)
1st feb 2003
REEL BIG FISH WAS AMAZING!!
yes you heard right i got tickets!
who else played at astoria? The starting line (who look like busted), and sugarcult who were pretty good. I had quite possibly the worst hangover for about a year, and still enjoyed myself although there were too many 12 year olds.
- Pretty good, even though i was still a bit hung over from an 18th brithday party the night before (i spent �35 on drink that night. Oh dear.) Painsbrook played a pretty good set and got the audience moving more then the other bands, even though they played first. Also included was dan breaking a string, so mr paul got blagged into a drum solo, which was pretty good. Hiding with girls looked like a buch of twats, all jumping in time and just looked silly in the way they overplayed their instruments, but credit where credit's due they were quite good at making music. Dury Falls were pretty good, but all the scratching was a backing track due to the way the dj scratched at the wrong times and at different speeds. He also looked and jumped around like a complete twat. Not a bad band though.
After an hour an a half train journey to go see MyDivide (coz me an clare know them - fish, greg and steve). We got there just as they came off the stage, which was a good start. The second band was pretty good, but i forgot what they were called. Next band - cameno black - were pretty good, kind of hardcore punk/metal. Next band we missed to catch the train, i think it was brutaldeluxe. That night had a lot of point.
22nd Feb 2003, Marconi club.
Jez, Hi-Jinx and Dullshine.
To be honest we went to get wrecked rather then see the bands. Me an al had 5 or 6 pints each, clare was ratarsed on 3 and grant as usual managed a rather pathetic 2. Jez was alright, but his voice is far to high. The other bands were ok i suppose, i was a bit too pissed to care.
Marconi club again, 1st march.
Some bands played, erm blucircle who had duval drumming who is a twat, but a suprisingly good drummer. Next band was ok but i forgot what they're called and headlining was cousin joey, who i actually listened to one song of because i was looking after sam. They were ok.
Marconi Club, yet again, seems to have become a regular haunt of mine.
Who played?
-Half Open - kind of rap metal, by people dressed as rudes. They were quite good but the vocals were all the same tempo.
-Fatal Error damn good music to drink too. Metally. My mate chris is in it. Go see. Nuff Said.
-MyDivide Pretty damn good, i also know this band. Go see them.
Coming Soon! More marconi club gigs! And im going to see less the jake on the 31st of may! Also the battle of the bands at the hermit. Go painsbrook!