Well, it all starts last Thursday with a trip to Camden with Emily. Met up with Emily's friend Sophia from York at the beginning of the afternoon, and when she left we wandered around Resurrection Records and the market for a while. We saw Martha was very excited about the night's Sisters of Mercy gig as she wore her Sisters leather jacket and ( Read more... )

On Friday night I went to Streatham where Callie finished Emily's tattoo, which looks amazing. On Saturday we went to William Morris' old house in Bexleyheath and had dinner at the Greek restaurant in New Eltham that evening. Sunday was spent walking around Greenwich and we enjoyed seeing Watchmen in the cinema ( Read more... )

On Thursday, I went to the Underworld for the Agalloch/Dornenreich gig. I was surprised at the queue but still got in the venue in time to see most of Fen's set, which was rather atmospheric and set the tone for the evening rather nicely. Mely, from Austria, followed but weren't really my thing. Still, there were a couple of decent songs and an ( Read more... )

Went to Blood and Velvet on the Friday night, which is possibly the last one in a while. They played some cool music and I beat Emily at pool. :)

On Saturday, I enjoyed German beer and food at Zeitgeitst with erming and Scott before we went to Invocation. It was much busier than last month, but I had to leave for the last train as I had chosen to drink ( Read more... )

Since it has beeen so long since I last posted here, I should thank everyone who came to Invocation for my belated birthday celebration last month. The chocolate pirate ship cake that Emily made was very enjoyable, I think everyone who tried it would agree ( Read more... )

Today I ordered tickets for Tiamat and The 69 Eyes (sadly no Scream Silence any more) on 2nd March and Dornenreich and Agalloch on 26th March. It has been a while since I went to a gig on a week night but looks like I have 2 next month.

In sadder news, it is shame to hear about the death of Miika Tenkula. Sentenced were the band that introduced me ( Read more... )

SaturdayI had stayed over at Emily's place on Friday night so we could catch a train and a bus to Ebbsfleet International station (which is in the middle of nowhere it seems, but convenient from where Emily lives) where we caught our Eurostar train to Brussels, and arrived only there a couple of hours later. We then took a 15 minute walk to our ( Read more... )

Went to Quinn's on Tuesday night to celebrate Scott's birthday. I was a bit jealous of those drinking fine Belgian beers as I was driving. However, I'll more than make up for that this weekend as I celebrate my 30th birthday in Brussels! I'm looking forward to visiting the Cantillon brewery and the Atomium building, and have planned a map of pubs ( Read more... )

I drove to Streatham on Friday night for the Blood and Velvet night. Apologies for not being in a socialiable mood but my cold was at its worst on that night. Then on Saturday, I went to the Purple Turtle where I saw James' death metal band Bloodwork play. It was great to finally see them. There was an additional surprise for me though when ( Read more... )

With the Astoria being demolished to make way for the Crossrail link, I thought I'd post a few memories of the place as naturalbornkaos and jonny_eol have already done.

First gig:
2001: A Metal Odyssey festival featuring Dimmu Borgir, Lacuna Coil, In Flames, Nevermore and Susperia, April Fools Day, 2001. I was living in York at the time but had come down for the Inkubus ( Read more... )