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

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I seem to remember a 4pm drink there where one LICE Tea was enough for a fair whack of tiddliness. Or it may have been to do with a bassist.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Bassist? What bassist? One of my bassists, or that bassist that used to live around the corner?

(that's half the reason I like Freud - the other half is coz they have slate tables and let you draw on them in coloured chalk when it's not busy.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i am intrigued by this freud's, i've never been there. barry - under five quid for cocktails doesn't sound expensive to me.

Anna and Toby - when will you two have to leave for your dinner party?

it is not a dinner party, it is dinner. ahem. i have emailed to enquire, i don't imagine we'd have to leave too early, hopefully.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Freud's the place that has a set of steps leading up to a mirror (and banged head)?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup. Excellent vodka Mojitos too.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

FREVD does surprisingly good, cheap food also!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I realise this is rather late, but:

oh yeah, was he one of the crowd of guys wearing construction overalls or something, that i thought was a random passerby, but turned out not to be?

???

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you turn up at any point during the ruinous and very noisy proceedings in the early hours of Monday morning?

(Actually, what DID you do in between Saturday morning and the end of the festival because I don't think I saw you once at that time despite being in the same group of tents?)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly even from Friday morning onward...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember one night when i was visiting the ilx camp, and a group of guys all dressed the same (and i vaguely think it was overalls, or bright flourescent raincoats or something?) and i thought it was just random people passing through and talking to strangers, and then once you'd left, someone said it was you.

can anyone fill in the gaps in my memory, here?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I was... up to things.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Was N. a droog?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I was emphatically not wearing overalls at any point.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

This post is amazing, in a way.

I have often meant to post about the fact that N. never comes to see any of us when he is in London.

And now, for once, he is actually asking to see us.

It's not that I am unhappy about that. I like seeing N.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant: this *thread* is amazing.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

bright yellow jackets?

even if it wasn't you, i'm totally not making this up. does anyone else have any idea what i'm talking about?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mean to jump on the guiser bandwagon: I say this a little reluctantly - but I think I agree, a lot, with Boyle about bars. I can't see that he is wrong.

But if JtN is right about the FreVd food, then, OK, interesting.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember that being the story, colette. but i'm pretty sure i only heard this from you, so i can't really back you up.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i can confirm this story, though only by sound, not by sight.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember three blokes turning up and standing near the edge of the circle for a bit. No idea who they were or what they were wearing mind. I was too busy singing loudly and spilling the last of my wine.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i think starry might have been the one that identified the mysterious group of guys...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Bar? Bah more like.
When a place can get a plug by being not as expensive as you'd think, there's immediately a big flashing warning light which says 'at least 3 pounds a pint' goes off.

the swimmer at the grafton arms is like £2.80 a pint and no one seems to mind. (and if you're stevem you drink the £4 strawberry stuff ;))

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it's cherry beer, and i am a ponce

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should have another Swimmer FAP soon. (Since I can now walk home afterwards.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I am all for Swimmer FAPs for similar reasons.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I live nowhere near it, but I like it anyway!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(There was a whole table of dirty rock boys the last (only) time I was in there.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

if you drink enough you can pretend to have swum home

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If I get drunk enough, I'm sure one of the dirty rock boys will let me sleep with them!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

do dirty drone boys prefer drunks?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, no, apparently, according to Q or the NME or something, it's all about crack now, but hey, whatever it takes, you know? ;-)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw N on the Saturday night/Sunday morning at Glastonbury. He looked tired.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Was he speaking in tongues?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus, I spend all day on a meeting and you lot let the barponces take over. I've been to Frevd twice ever, in my life I'll only go twice ever. Overpriced and uncomfortable, and full of challenging haircuts, just plain crap.

I'll be with Boyler in the pub.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

see you there than darling, MWAH!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Negronis, whisky sours and ruin all round

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Porky and I agree on something at last! I've been looking forward to this moment. Hugglez?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn! I am going to see Tony Benn on this day!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

oh christ, I'm not as well am I? is that the day of the thing at the post office?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Post Office? Tony Benn? WTF??

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

he's doing a lecture at V's work soon, hopefully not on this day

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm seeing an audience with TB in Hayes!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, I'll be in the pub waiting for N to be de-poncified

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that like defrocked?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

kinda, yes.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I still don't know why Alba is leaving Alba.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

This is all tremendously exciting. I'll be out of my Personal Work Hell by then and may even be able to swan off early, so the possibility of intercepting Da Dast before even this Fraud place and luring him back to my smack den/walking round a park looking at the duckies is there, certainly. Certainly, it is there.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is this Freud's? I plan to get there and stay for the pub, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't sure myself, Ally C, until I found about this duckies thing.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You are a mysterious man. I am going to the pub to watch whatever football is on, incase you want to come.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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