Big Thursday

Angus has written up a fun report on the thursday night just gone. See it all in the forums and join the masses (of 17 people), who are experiancing the mixing bowl that is the forum.
Prematch: A generous number of spliffs, accompanied by a full bodied Bells whiskey; a truly disgusting ad hoc bloody mary that looked more like uterus in a glass; and a gentlemanly 2 hour game of chess. (That was saaa-aaa-aaad.)
Crew: I looked around last night and saw a lot of new faces, which meant that people have been disobeying the first two rules of big thursday.
Aside from that, there were a lot of people back from uni. Me, Tommy, Ellis, Arran, Big Sam T, Admag, Al, Luke, Phil, Alex, Nader, Flewitt, even Kelly was out for a bit. A truly gargantuan turnout for what is traditionally the biggest day of the week.
Venues: After the relative safety chateau Panque, we stumbled down to scream. I fucking fell over in scream, as i was battered, but i managed to skill it so dat no one saw. Yes, i know, im a legend.
After a number of drinks, we graduated from the frying pan of scream to the blaziing, infernal fire that is Scrooms. Saw 3 fantastic bands; Left of the dealer, with Jakey B on lead guitar and tommy on vocals. Fucking awesome.
Then there was hells orchestra; Still fucking good, but a bit full of themselves. (to be fair, I would have liked the cellist to be full of myself)
Then another top clas gig from the Magic heroes, culminating in a stonking finale of Tutti-frutti, sung by Kev, Jakey, Stavros, Iany-boy, Chris, Ians bro and Tommy.
Pull: Not this time, people. I’m only a man, not a machine. Although the band Hell’s Orchestra had a fuckin smokin hot cello player. As luke so rightly put it, she’d have got it….all over her…ah, you know the rest. Funnily, both mag and al insist that they managed to chat her up. Delusion must be genetic.

Quote Of The Evening: Has to go to Admag for the simple yet effective”…YES!”
Overall Mark Out Of 100 On Lisa Riley Scale/ General Comments: Im gonna give this one a fuckin mahoosive 89% on the lisa riley scale. As for general comments……..YES!
Think that pretty much sums up the night out. Ohh but i also dropped m glasses in City and totally destroyed them. Damn expensive night out

Posted by Sam Posted in: General No Comments » December 2005

All expenses paid fun

Where to start;
Friday…I guess that’s where all began. I was bought a present in the form of a paid train journey to and from London with all expenses paid in-between. It was an offer I would have been silly to refuse. It all started with a stupid rush to pack on the Friday with a train booked for 2.45 and I’d not even started packing by about 12. I had to pack all my clothes (which were all still wet from the last minute washing I’d done the night before), along with all my uni work not to mention the fact that I had to get my bike to and from the station as well. I had booked a taxi at about 9am for quarter to 1 so that I had plenty of time to run around the station with my bike and not feel in a rush. As always it went wrong. The taxi company messed up the time and thought it was for 2.45 so there I was with a pre booked ticket and no way of getting to it. After phoning round half the companies in Manchester I found one that was going to be able to get one to me by 25 past 1. All of 20 minutes to get to the station and then find the train etc. I was doubtful to say the least. After nearly breaking my leg trying to carry my bike, rucksack and backpack up the stairs I found the train by pure fluke and threw my bike in the door just as the whistle was called. Somebody wanted me to get that train J After that moment, the train was quite uneventful with it even arriving 10 minutes early. Virgin trains ftw.
First thing I did when I got there was find food then sleep. I was taken to a wicked little Italian pizza place where they made awesome pizza and was the first of many international meals. After the post meal, 4 hour sleep, we went to get cheap croissants and a muffin from Sainsbury’s where it was 70% off. Mmmmmmmmmmmm muffin. It was then decided I wanted more sleep so feeling full of all the fun chocolaty things I passed out for a nice sleep. Sleep ftw. You may notice sleep being quite an integral part of my days at the moment. That’s coz it rocks.
Saturday was Camden day combined with the eighth wonder of the world. Or king Kong if you haven’t seen the adverts. I’m getting ahead of myself though. The morning (and by morning I mean when I woke up at 1pm,) was spent wandering around the amazing shops that at are Camden and sampling the wonders of a true random shopping experience. I was tempted to buy a t-shirt that had Ezekiel 25-17 on it for my brother for Christmas but I decided not too. Something I regret now I think. There was also this awesome t-shirt that epitomised the geek in me however yet again I decided against it. Not that my image could really be destroyed any further. After shopping in Camden and having a Mexican meal we got on a random bus to Leicester square. We decided to buy 2 tickets to see King Kong as I’d been told it was awesome by Mel and there’s no better place to see it than the Odeon in the square. The movie was booked for half 7 so we had a few hours to burn. We spent some of it eating ice cream and beer and some of it drinking an entire bottle of wine. A classy way to start an evening I think. After the movie (which was absolutely f00kin class) we went to Chinatown for another international meal. After the meal we headed back to watch a movie however the DVD was fubared so we just went to sleep instead. Please note at this point we had, had Italian, French, Mexican, and Chinese and if you count Ben and jerry’s as American, that too. Quite a variety for 2 days so we decided to keep on the randomness for the last day as well.
Sunday morning (or afternoon as most people tend to call it) was spent on a trip to Covent Garden to look at all the random shops and generally just have a laugh looking round all the assorted fun things. During that fun we also went for an Indian to add to the list of things we have eaten. After Covent Garden we walked to Trafalgar Square for some photos and then walked on down to the embankment. There we went into a fun coffee house just on the river that was all manga and Japanese. A fun combination I thought. At this point I was left alone for a while to play on the tubes with my all day pass and wander around Oxford Street. I don’t know why I have a fascination with the tube but I actually get excited when I’m on one. I think it’s the noise and the idea of being underground that really makes me enjoy it. Everybody else just thinks I’m sad for liking the tube, to them it’s just another annoying/busty transport system but I love it. The wind rushing down all the tunnels is brilliant. Tubes ftw.
When we got back I went to sleep again and then was rudely awoken by the dustman (couldn’t help that), who told me we were going out for a cocktail night and some club playing house. That sounded like fun so at about half 11 we wandered back out into the cold to find some random club (www.akalondon.co.uk) I think it was called. We got off the tube (where random people looked disgusted with us drinking beer) and sauntered off into the area we thought the club was. After looking for all of 2 min we got bored and went into a really cute cocktail bar where we ordered a Cosmo and a Mojito that were proper nice. Unfortunately the place stopped serving at 1ish so we asked the bar lady where the other club was and she pointed us just round the corner. Feeling proper stupid for not seeing it in the first place we ambled into the club paying the nice £10 entry and drank many more expensive (£8 each cocktails) till about half 3-4 am. The music was proper class and the place was really nice with a great atmosphere. After leaving and entering the cold again we headed to Edgware road to have a Lebanese kebab that rocked. The list of international foods gets longer still J Suffice to say we arrived home at some ungodly hour and collapsed back to sleep only to wake up at 11 again to catch the train back to Notts. The train being where I’m writing this now with my free cup of coffee and a generous helping of Mancunian tunes to pass the time. All in all though it was an absolutely brilliant weekend.
Till next time
Sam out

Posted by Sam Posted in: General No Comments » December 2005

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