Oh look, it's about to start raining again.

[alexsarll]

So. Installed on the new laptop, more or less, and able to update this again. To say what? To say that many Edinburgh previews have been seen and, James Dowdeswell aside, all impressed me. Stephen Carlin (dour), Daniel Simonsen (Norwegian), Tom Goodliffe (temporal), Michael Legge (shouty) and Ben Target (unnerving) were all courtesy of diamond_geyser, while Richard Marsh & Katie Bonna's Dirty Great Love Story was in - shock! - an actual venue. A venue attached to Shillibeer's, at that, which is somewhere I've not been in a very long time, perhaps because it's in the middle of nowhere, by which I mean off the top of the Cally Road, but now the Cally Road is a TV star that doesn't seem fair. The show in question opening in what used to be the Islington Bar, home for me to the golden age of Stay Beautiful. That wasn't the only club to feel like My Place (I think AFE was the most recent), but lately, I've not had one; I've been to plenty, but always as a visitor. So since the last post, that would include a New Cross goth night where xandratheblue improved matters massively with a load of pop, and a grunge night where I remembered I don't actually like that much grunge (and most of what I do like is 90 minutes of Nirvana), and even the grunge bands I like, I generally like the bits where they weren't grunge more (Hole, the Afghan Whigs, Smashing Pumpkins) - but again, there was augstone on hand to play that stuff that wasn't strictly grunge. Hell, even the band's best song was Destiny's Child covered in the style of Tom Waits, so again, not really grunge at any point. And then there's Glam Racket, which has departed, and Debbie, which I think could benefit from a female DJ given they do play specifically female-fronted pop, and, oh I don't know, it's a bit Catchphrase, isn't it? They're all good, but they're not right. Not totally. I think the closest I've felt to that sense of being at home while being out was at steve586's Wedding II: Electric Boogaloo the London party, as one of the six Doctors (plus Benton) assembled to mark the happy occasion.

Comments

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's not the middle of nowhere! Or even at the top of Cally Road. It's about 30 seconds from my home.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, it's where the road forks, which I think of as the top of Cally Road proper. That leafy bit afterwards feels like somewhere else - and indeed, seemed to be absent from the TV show, so I'm clearly not the only one who mentally truncates it like that.

[xkad.livejournal.com]

I wasdistinctly unimpressed by James Dowdeswell in 2003 and it sounded as if the rest of the audience agreed. Quite surprised to hear he's still going as a comedian.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Hey, there are bands who left me unimpressed in the late nineties who are still going - why should comedy be any different?