FAP 30th Birthday SPESH!!! 6th September

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September 6th, 7pm-late (for which read 1am!) its my 30th Birthday gosh darned it and I want to see lots of people come and drink near me. The place SOAS Bar (the bar I run so cheap prices), Russell Square. Music from all the usual suspects. Probably crisp tastings.

Come one come all (let me know before hand so I can put you on the list though, private party style).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:06 (twenty years ago) link

Wish I could come, Pete. That's my birthday too! But I'll be a wee 26 years.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:16 (twenty years ago) link

I'll try and make it so put me in.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:19 (twenty years ago) link

But I'll be a wee 26 years.

INFANT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

Yay! I shall definitely be there.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:41 (twenty years ago) link

i'm not sure if i replied to the email or not pete (probably not i guess) but i'll be there, anyway...

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

sounds great, i'll come

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:44 (twenty years ago) link

yay. cheap soas booze. and pete.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:55 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah! Will there be a pub quiz we can't win?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm, hadn't considered that. Maybe a simple runaround quiz like last year.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:10 (twenty years ago) link

I would like to come, and may bring ILX LURKER GIRLFRIEND if she's up for it after her trip over. I'll get back to you, but I'd like to be pencilled (+1), please.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe a simple runaround quiz like last year.

how's your Mike Reid impersonation Pete?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

G-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-gooooooo!

Runaround......NOW!

Fair to middling (in print).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

Wish I could make it, but I'm going to be running 13 and a bit miles round Glasgow at 10am the next day -- don't think I can do both, I'm afraid.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

That's my birthday as well! How odd. (Will not say how old I will be as am scared of Ned calling me a... foetus, or something.)

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

Do you mean to say that the 6th September is when you will actually be born Cis!!!

The missus-to-be and I will be there obviously.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

It's when I'll be found under a cabbage patch by a hoopoe.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I'm sure I'll be there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

Whizzing back up to the top...

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

It's my birthday is sept 6 as well... have a pint for me.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

just one? :(

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

crap, i am uptown so much at the moment i really should live there

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

I am coming to this one.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

Sir Pete! Happy (early) Birthday! Wishing you all the lager and fair women you desire;>

(Have one for me, as I can't be there. Pencil me in for next year, though....)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Think I'll be along for this one.

Might I suggest that we go to the Notting Hill Arts Centre first, though, for their RoTa thing, cos Misty's Big Adventure are playing and though they might not be the best thing ever they're very, very close. Also they are from Birmingham.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

OH MY GOD HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE UK ME.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

Pete, is it okay to ask you to put me and Sarah's names down even if we can't guarantee we'll be able to come?

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, that has been done Mark. The main SOAS door will be shut so just ring the handy little bell and ask the man inside. He should have list with everyones name on, but basically if you say my name, you'll get in. Private party Wooo!

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 5 September 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

Wishing you all the lager and fair women you desire;>

Sheesh. I read that as 'all the large and fair women you desire,' which puts a slightly different spin on things.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 5 September 2003 07:21 (twenty years ago) link

Yay, I can come to this... *punches air to We Want Fun*

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 September 2003 07:30 (twenty years ago) link

ooh, has anyone mentioned the watching of the football yet? is it on another thread?

aaaaaaaaanyway, a few of us (tim, chris, martin, not chris martin though, some others) are going to watch the FYR Macedonia v England match beforehand, and for some ungodly reason we have decided upon THE WINDMILL which is a pub with lots of tellies in, just opposite the rising sun off tottenham court road (sorry it's not on fancyapint, so no linkage). we will be there from 4ish, just to ensure that there is full-on ruination later...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 5 September 2003 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

The next ILX CD must feature the London Bootleg Orchestra's rendition of We Want Ruin. In other news, have fun tomorrow (and today!).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 5 September 2003 08:05 (twenty years ago) link

Goodness me but the Windmill is a nasty hole of a place.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 5 September 2003 08:11 (twenty years ago) link

Pete, can you put Jonnie down just in case I talk him out of going to Dorset this weekend?

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 September 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, okay, everyone on the list has a plus one anyway so they can bring girlyfriends and stuff..

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:11 (twenty years ago) link

B-b-b-but Steve you PROMISED! :(

― Chris Martin (Groke), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:23 (twenty years ago) link

(it's all pete's fault, he suggested it, even though he won't be there)

and less of that whining clodplay boy, or i'll give you a SLAP.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

I'll see you at the Windmill...I wouldn't mind watching the Wales match either tho!

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link

carsmile i *do* have the 1987 collection of "foul"!!

(also a 1981 shoot! annual) (why? bcz i am a magpie)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

Mark I thought "Foul!" was long gone by 1987 (it was all When Saturday Comes and Off the Ball and Hit The Bar by then wasn't it?). I'd love to see some of those old "Foul"s one day.

Carsmile will hate you now you've admitted to being a dorty hackin magpie.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

arf arf. foul is from 72-76, but the collection was published in 87 as marks says. meg found a copy of it in her mum's attic. i may bring it out tomorrow, but i don't really want it getting covered in beer etc...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:50 (twenty years ago) link

Another time is probably a better idea, CSS.

I'm sore with Foul! for taking the name which I wanted to use for our Soorts Blog (I'm also sore with those nice Hit The Bar chaps for the same reason).

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:54 (twenty years ago) link

carsmile so is the thing i found the same edition as the one meg found then? ie a retrospective collection (under the aegis of WSC presumably - the intro is by mike ticher...)

sure the soorts blog = 'IT IS NOW!!"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 September 2003 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

Ew, horrid associations with nasty unfunny deeply homophobic Rory fucking McGrath starring tv quiz shows ahoy.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:01 (twenty years ago) link

"When Wednesday Afternoon Comes"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

"Picked Last"

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:12 (twenty years ago) link

"this boy is xcuzed all games frever signed ~~mark s~~ mum s"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

Tom that's genius.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

yes, sounds like the same thing mark.

the sports blog has a very good name now, i like it.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:30 (twenty years ago) link

"A.N.Other."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:07 (twenty years ago) link

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That Georgi Markov feller that got stabbed with a poison-tipped umbrella and died - he was Bulgarian, wasn't he?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 7 September 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

i think i told Anna i was going to do a bootleg of the Beach Boys' 'Sloop John B' but a few probably already exist and there's a particularly excellent unofficial electro remix of it by Si Begg of all people (at least i think he made it)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 7 September 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

and i wasn't confusing Hristov with Stoichkov, i'm just sure i know that name from somewhere else other than Macedonia's first XI

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 7 September 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

There's a Hristov plays for Bulgaria, but not Georgi. I was thinking of Stoichkov yesterday afternoon when v. pissed, so as said above, apologies for tarring you with the brush of my own stupidity :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 September 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

don't worry i'm already stupid enough

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 7 September 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

I would just like to thank everyone who came on Saturday. Not just for their kind cards and presents but also for their attendance and general bonhomie. I had a fantastic time and just as well i didn't know about the other Spanish bar, ruin would have been far too dangerous.

I apologise whole heartedly for the singing by the way. Cabaret circuit here I come...

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

it really was a *fantastic* evening - second best fap ever in my book.

i am now downloading loads of carter usm, although i don't think it will be able to compete with pete's rendition of "only living boy...".

the spanish bar was a bit of an accident, we were heading for the bus when anna decided that it was a must.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 September 2003 08:04 (twenty years ago) link

Anybody else notice that G. Hristov = Gareth? (skopje - should i go there?)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 8 September 2003 08:05 (twenty years ago) link

This morning I put my jacket on as I was leaving and realise I'd forgotten all about that ad I nicked from the bar.

"REM tribute band - singer, guitarist and bass player wanted". Marvellous. I'm going to apply.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 8 September 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, it was a winner!

We will definitely be repeating the one-song-per-DJ soundclash trick at the October wedding FAP.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 08:38 (twenty years ago) link

i'd forgotten that too! christ, i forgot a lot of things on saturday night, there were probably 100 other hilarious things that happened that have slipped my mind...

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 September 2003 08:38 (twenty years ago) link

(x-post)

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 September 2003 08:38 (twenty years ago) link

Hold up, what do you mean, SECOND best FAP ever...?

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 08:54 (twenty years ago) link

It was missing a certain something (IE me).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link

pete, the best FAP ever is the next one. never stop dreaming ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:21 (twenty years ago) link

best fap ever: Mary & Felicity In London FAP: 18th January

it's a close thing though. you should be thirty more often.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:23 (twenty years ago) link

The problem with that FAP wa show full the Spanish bar got. I prefered Steve's answer.

But I'm glad you all had a good time.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link

Is there a thread about a Mary in London FAP as yet?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:35 (twenty years ago) link

(That January FAP was indeed awesome, though). Two best FAPs ever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:35 (twenty years ago) link

Tuesday night was mooted, as was the grafton arms, grafton st just behind warren st tube, but they haven't actually done anything about sorting it.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:37 (twenty years ago) link

I heard Chris playing Bangalter/Falcon, therefore despite not being there, best FAP ever.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link

Here it is.

Mary FAP! Here it is! Oh yes.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

And now I can function properly again:

Brilliant, brilliant FAP on Saturday. Cheap booze, wonderful dancing and everybody from the University of ILx together (it really did feel like that, odd...).

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:47 (twenty years ago) link

My housewarming went well. Which is a good thing, or else I would be kicking myself for missing this.

Also happy 30th to Pete.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:09 (twenty years ago) link

So can I run the SU in the University of ILx - I've proved my mettle.

I have also decided to play music under all of my pub quizes in future.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

(I actually had a small 'moment' when dancing to 'We Want Fun' and Toby took the piss out of me because I was being drunk and over emotional on the night bus.)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

Do you have sleepless nights thinking about the magick 30 (pronounced ala redman)? I don't, I am too old to have sleepless nights. haha

― nathalie soon to be dirty as well (nathalie), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:14 (twenty years ago) link

No.

30 is just a space invade on its side.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:16 (twenty years ago) link

I am SO GLAD that "We Want Fun" has become the London ILX anthem!

That's when they're most dangerous Pete.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:17 (twenty years ago) link

(NB post the true or false quiz so absentees have a chance to play)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

I can only accept "We Want Fun" as the LILX anthem if it is compulsory to shout "We Hate Fun" along with it.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link

We Want Ruin!

On reflection, Carter was karaoked => I am gutted.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:26 (twenty years ago) link

(at the time from across the room i assumed/believed that everyone was shouting 'WE R GAY!!" with such blissful fervour)

(nor will anything convince me otherwise)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:28 (twenty years ago) link

Mark surely you had left about an hour before?

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

i wz peeking thru the window

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

The True Or False Quiz in full (okay, with one question altered due to potentially sensitive nature of its contents):

1: Pete Baran shares his birthday with both Tim Henman and Greg Rudseski - whilst being rubbish at tennis.

2: The human optic nerve does not grow and therefore at the age of three has at least five centimetres of “slack”.

3: The average height of an Ewok in The Return Of The Jedi was three foot eight, a good three inches taller than Pete Baran at age nine.

4: Pete Baran was once arrested for drug dealing in Bedford.

5: In his Oxford interview Pete Baran argued that there was nothing morally wrong with incest and said the phrase “Deep down every man wants to fuck his mum”.

6: The sewage in the Deptford area of London has on average 13% content of blood in it, a full 8% greater than the national average of 5%.

7: Clare Short once stole a taxi off of Pete Baran.

8: The posh family of Dido is directly related to the Albanian Royal Family, and now after the end of comunism her elder brother has been asked to be reinstated the throne.

9: Baran, a Polish name, means ram in Polish and the family is named this due to being directly related to the Polish Royal Families servants.

10: Pete Baran was once thrown out of the Library at S OAS for being drunk.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:46 (twenty years ago) link

Favourite Matt DC quote during this quiz:

"Oh this one's true, Pete told me."

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:49 (twenty years ago) link

SPECIAL BONUS ROUND - of what question did Matt DC say "I know this is true cos Pete told me"?

(heh xpost)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

8. King Rollo!

i was convinced #4 was true because i did recall Pete's anecdote about being mistaken for a dealer

and i was singing 'I Hate Fun' along to AWK

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

i wz peeking thru the window

the image this conjures is both tragic and hilarious

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:54 (twenty years ago) link

The problem with that FAP wa show full the Spanish bar got.

I ended up squeezed in a corner between Mary and Felicity. Not exactly a vision of hell...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

The real problem with that FAP was me trying to look cool and suave and blowing it by falling head-first into the luggage holding compartment on the night bus. Ack... never again.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

man i wish i could've been at this shindig! happy birthday pete!!

― geeta, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:46 (twenty years ago) link

More REM Vocalist Keyboard, Guitar and Bass posters up. His name is Andre we know now...

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

as an absentee, I'm going to have a bash at this quiz

1 t; 2 f; 3 t; 4 f; 5 f; 6 t; 7 t; 8 f; 9 t; 10 t.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

you have at least 3 wrong, i think. but you've probably done better than we did.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:34 (twenty years ago) link

Yep, four wrong.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

I have a funny feeling that the Ewok one is essentially correct, but the dimensions quoted in the question are slightly wrong.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

see now, that's what i thought and why we (me, meg, tom and alix) only got 9 rather than the full 10 ;)

oh, that bottle of cava's still in the fridge btw.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

we drank ours there and then, possibly explaining the extent if the ruin suffered by my team mates and I.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

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