BECKY ON: better late than never...

It seems we were a little busy towards the end of last week and didn't have a chance to post about what the weekend was about to hold, but needless to say, there was very little lounging around doing NOTHING!

Friday was DIRTY CURRY NIGHT,... so I met up with some friends on Brick Lane - the very best place in London to fill your face with the best that India has to offer, and it's hardly wallet bashing stuff. About eight of us bought our own booze and sat around a steaming mass of naan, rice, meat and sloppy sauces in sizzling dishes, talked about nothing (although Ghosts were a main topic of discussion as Sarah had just been on the JACK THE RIPPER TOUR, which she said was really cool). Anyway,.. all in all it was less than a tenner a head, so we could afford to move on to GREEN AND RED, (hit it up) a tequila bar round the corner. Poor Darren was feeling a little worse for wear by that point, but I made friends with a lovely American girl called Christine. Brick Lane is always good for mingling, and this trendy bar is really good for chatting as the music's not too loud and the measures are quite HUGE. Nice one.

Then we went off to the RHYTHM FACTORY, just down the road, which was open til 4am! Most of us were too busy talking and making friends with mad people to go dancing though, and I ended up safe at home in bed by 3am. A relatively early night, really...

Saturday was rather fun... I had a friend in town so we took a walk round Victoria Park, really nice in the sunshine. Aaaah, I really feel like spring is here at the moment!! We had a pint in the ROYAL INN, right near the park, a very nice pub, if a little smoky. I wouldn't recommend a trip there just because.... but if you're passing, grab a pint of Leffe beer,.. mmmmmm, my new FAVE!! Then of course, it was time to head to Brixton to meet some folks from work and a few other friends, all down for dancing at KEIRETSU's gig at THE TELEGRAPH. This pub is mental... I'd never been before and it was a short bus ride up Brixton Hill, a long queue and a SIX QUID charge to get in, but I suppose it was worth it because Tim and Russel's band KEIRETSU were fantastic! They're an "11 piece live breakbeat fushionism band" and they rock!  We had to jump around a lot, and at one point I was so tired that I forget I was drinking bottled beer and picked up some bloke's pint by mistake. Luckily he was more amused than annoyed, but it could have been nasty had we not been in such a nice place. The crowd seemed really cool, actually... check out our Katie below with her Swede, (bless!)

On Sunday a few mates and I headed to Islington for some food and ended up getting a load of Braham beers for £1.50 each in the MEDICINE BAR, and we had these wicked comfy couches all to ourselves. AWESOME. A great place to lounge away a Sunday afternoon!! However, DON'T GO TO LE MERCURY. It's a little restaurant quite nearby on Upper Street that looks deceivingly charming. I mean, they even had a Spongebob Squarepants window box fergodssake!!! But NO. Don't do it. We ordered roast dinner and the meat was so tough I had cramp in my hand for AN HOUR and could barely hold my beer back in the MEDICINE BAR afterwards. It gets good reviews here and I don't understand it. It was cold too, and they didn't even serve potatoes with the roast. WTF??? You can't have a roast with no potatoes. LAME. Avoid like the plague.

So all in all, a good WEEKEND for me, marred only slightly by the Le Mercury experience. But I'd highly recommend all the other things I did, especially KEIRETSU... Check out their upcoming gigs here!

IS IT FRIDAY YET???

Comments

[Alex]

Live gigs are always the best, one day, one of these bands will make it and i can tell my grandchildren "i went and saw them when they 1st started!" - my one true claim to fame!!
For those living just outside South London The Peel in Kingston offers great live gigs. See their website here:http://www.peelmuzik.com/. Camden is always good too - went and saw F*ck shovel the other week, what a great band name!

[princessbex]

Haaaa!! F*ck Shovel??!! I want to be in that band!

[Alex]

I know! I wasn't gonna bother going, but then i thought, "no, i will go, just so i can see people's reactions when i say i went a saw F*ck shovel". My ears did bleed, but it was a small price to pay!