Alba is in London next week - it would be nice to see people on Wednesday

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Nick, I think that's from Trig Bruv....

x-post!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone seemed on an especially good form - or it could be that after weeks of work-imposed purdah, a sea of familiar faces left me overstimulated. I left with a Left Legged Pineapple bag full of aging vinyl and an A4 sheet of notes on Finno-Ugric languages. I bet that's more than Damon Allbran went home with.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He left with nothing.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the Trig Brother revelation. I was a bit worried I was unwittingly revealing some state secrets and was going to be in big trouble.

I think I was on good form. I was trying to explain this to the pinefox at one point, with reference to virtuous circles.

I'm glad I (think I) managed to at least say hello to everyone there, even if I thought Peter Miller was a tramp at first.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

were members of blur nasty to our alba since he collaborated with the enemy?

shame to miss ya.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the pinefox thought you were on good form, as well, since he told me several times how well you've aged.

which all made me giggle a little.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've aged?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it is the way of all things

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

alba had a gig with oasis??

I am disappointed about the trig brother thing, I was hoping you guys were doing that "FLAME" love matching game that we used to do in school.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

where were you anyway?

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i couldn't make it. my wasp stung toe would have made me cry if i didn't come home straight after work and abstain from any walking
-- ken c (pykachu10...), September 22nd, 2004 11:41 PM. (later)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Ken. How's yr damaged digit?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to love playing FLAME!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "FLAME", you burn people alive and if they survive they are in love with you???

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "FLAME", you burn people alive and if they survive they are in love with you???

i'm not THAT bad!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like a terrific game!

x-post. Oh, shame.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot believe Dastoor is accusing people of looking like a tramp.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that I thought he looked like a tramp. It was just the way the pinefox introduced him. Bear in mind that I have been waiting 7 years to meet Peter Miller. "I've brought along someone" was not the introduction I was hoping for.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i forget the mechanics of the flame game now.. it involved writing down names on a piece of paper.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a lovely evening. I cuddled Nick quite a lot, which was less painful than it sounds.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought sarah's back already.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember all this cuddling. Please apologise to your girlfriend on my behalf - I spoke complete rubbish to her, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

'alba had a gig with oasis??'

no but he has just collaborated with noel gallagher.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I would've loved to have met Blur. Of course, the first thing (well, fifth) I didn't want to say to my mum was "I know I just got back this morning, but can I go out tonight and meet a group of interweb people and a famous pop band for one too many drinks?", although I know she would've said "yes".

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Damon Alba?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba was on top form, Ally C.

Nobody else met them except for Ed when he came over to a) get served and b) see what the fuck the popstars and his girlfriend were giggling about. We were merely having a shared WTF? moment when he arrived, honest, Guv.

Barima, they stayed for like two drinks, and Demon let the barmaid keep change from a £50 note on a £20 bar bill.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

What was strange is that they looked so emphatically like Blur I assumed they were lookalikes. They were almost caricatures. I didn't tell anyone this at the time. I just trotted out my story about seeing DA in Habitat being sullen. Which was slightly redundant in the circumstances.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody else met them

har, that's right, rub it in...

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I had that feeling when Des Moines said 'and you can keep the rest, awroight daw-lin?' to the bargirl. Also, the coxswain looked astonishingly healthy and good compared to the last time I saw him.

I have now brought Kate up to speed on events, and what I thought they were up to. She is quite chuffed.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys should have trumped him by telling the girl she can keep the change from a £50 note for a £10 bill.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

all whilst talking on a mobile phone

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Did nobody manage to sneakily get them in the background of photographs? Speaking of which, are there any photos at all for us to laugh at?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i took a couple of pictures, but left the cable for my camera at home. will post later!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(not of the band, by the way. just some standard ilxor shots including, if i reacall correctly, stevem looking both very gay and then very 'macho')

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody else met them

You lot were all hiding in a corner giggling and whispering like star-struck schoolgirls, weren't you?

Wish I'd known this was happening, tho I'd promised to go see Coffee And Cigarettes instead and was slightly uh irritable and exhausted from plane jouney, so wouldn't really have been good company.

― cis (cis), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I leave £30 tipping to the people who can easily bestow such things: millionaires.

Dunno about the photos. I went to the bar because I DID NOT EVEN WANT TO KNOW PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DO THAT.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I took loads but I doubt BlurBlokes feature. I was trying to get the perfect high-ISO grainy Dastoor portrait. He has a different expression in every picture. You can tell he's an Actor.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

coffee & cigarettes vs coffee & tv

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't you get my txt cis?

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Steady Mike's Ixus is like half the depth of mine, I was impressed.

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem spent half of the time in the princess louise asking people if the got his texts, seems like.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It's about half as good, SteveM. If I'd thought to bring it in to work with a USB cable I'd be photobucketing right now. As it is you'll have to wait until beyond the point where anyone cares to see them.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Didnt't get the text until like midnight. :(

Having communication problems, mister m?

― cis (cis), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i only txted two people

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't txt me :\

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. It was dinky and stuff. I was envious.

In Lousy chat related googling - I still cannot find the origin of 'How's your father'.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

a bit of the old "how's your father"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No one has recounted that Anna, who had left just before Blur showed, is trying to research an article about groupies. I suggested that, to be helpful to Anna, someone should seduce Blur and report back, but no one was up to it. Then it occurred to me that The Pinefox has made records, so I tried to seduce him, but it didn't really take. Sorry, Anna: at least I tried.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I put a 20p tip into their stupid fucking glass of water. I wish I hadn't bothered now.

I thought Blur seemed quite nice.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure they're good to their mams

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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