London n that...

So - I'm still recouperating after what was a proper MISSION to get to The Great Indoors in South London.
After a 4 hour drive for me, 5 hour trip for Mark & Jack, we actually met up as I drove past Starbucks in Borough and so we parked up and walked in the venue together.... (Jack's words on seeing The Roebuck - "PLEASE tell me that's not the venue?!!")
Downstairs = Normal Pub, Upstairs Room = little acoustic venue.

We had a quick run through at Soundcheck and found the sound a little wobbly, but generally cool - dunno what it sounded like out front though?!... We adjourned downstairs and after I BATTERED Mark & Hobbs at Connect 4, I introduced them to psychological Guess Who! The rules are simple - exactly the same as normal Guess Who, but you can't ask questions about their actual appearance!! So instead questions like "Would this person have a tattoo??" become de rigeur!!....

6/7 games later, a couple of mates had shown up & it seemed a bit weird with us really getting into the game and friends who we hadn't seen for ages being shunned so that we could figure out whether or not Peter looked like he'd be a reliable babysitter!

After heading upstairs, we found a deathly hush in the crowd as they respected the intimacy of the venue & the songs of the first 2 performers. 3rd on was a local legend back for one more time & as we knew we were on next we sorted our stuff out at the back pausing only to sing along with a medley including The Outhere Brothers, Ini Kamoze and the Fresh Prince! that was more like our sort of thing!!

Unfortunately that meant that the crowd he'd brought all left as he departed the stage and suddenly we were left with half the audience.

So we played We Are The AFC, Hobbitskit v2, Marmite & Rev Praise (a decent short set) and went down ok - as well as can be expected really...
had to leave afterwards quick smart so I could come to sleep - drove into the drive just gone 2am, then up to look after the boys for a bit at about 6.30am...

so now? I'm going to sleep!
catch you later y'all...