London ILB - FAP?

coincidentally the 12th is not looking so good for me now - leaving drinks for a friend and future reuters malaysia correspondent.

Cool, I'll move this to July then - hope to see all of you then.

Still on?

For sure, about on Thurs 24th or 31st.

yep, can also do either.

down for tomorrow - fizzles is about.

Tom D.? anybody else?

I think… yes? I may have to check.

Cool, will be there tomorrow. Need a drink (don't we all really these days) plus I'll finish this book I'm on.

Probably should also say all fappers, old or new, ilb or ilx, are v welcome and we meet in the Royal Oak in Borough.

aye gwan then.

I'm all about booze not books but hopefully can make it

might struggle to make this - lousy work drinks, which I'm going to try and wriggle out of as early as is decent. also hot and sleepless night means only book I feel capable of discussing is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

I might be available. Shall I go?

I am not going to shine (we decided last night I should get up at 4:30 to chaperone my stepdaughter to the breakfast programme of failing TV channel London Live & now I am at work and feeling v v spacey and coffee-sick), but I will try to make it for a bit.

You should definitely come Pinefox.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I have a hunger for PIE!!

See anybody/everybody later.

yes, come pinefox. i shall claim a Very Important Meeting of Minds to try and get out of this work bullshit this evening.

or say I'm going to the Poesie Internationale Expo.

PIE meant something very different when Leon Brittan was (a very vigilant and diligent... honestly) Home Secretary.

Woof and Fizzles, thank you very much for kindly saying that you'd like me to attend. I appreciate it.

Be great for lurkers/readers, contributors who have not been to one, everybody to attend @ Royal Oak. I am reading a book called KAPUTT that I'll leave on the table.

Can anyone say when they might be at the pub?

It's a question for the ages, that.

I hope I'm going to be there by half past six, but I fear I might not be there anymore by half past seven.

eight, I hope.

Should be there by 5.30 - 6.

I am thinking of possibly going to the FAP early, and hoping to see Tim.

I might possibly then have to leave early too.

Looking more like 7 for me, annoyingly.

Tim, do you still expect then to leave by 7:30?

Yes, yes I do.

apologies for not making it - mixture of workness and cancelled trains meant it would've been half ten by the time I got there. hope good time was had by all. missed pie.

No worries - there will always be another sometime.

woof - this is the book I was telling you about - http://www.amazon.com/Mausoleum-Thirty-Seven-Ballads-History-Progress/dp/0916354059

Do you have the Enszenburger Modern European Poets, Julio? I think I may have a spare of that one.

Yeah I do, its terrific.

I am looking for Ungaretti, if you happen to have that..

Thanks for that xyzzz - knew I wouldn't be able to remember. I was recommending the Zbigniew Herbert one iirc.
That was fun. I enjoy rambling + BSing + some book talk. And drink.
Mentioned -
Penman on Fassbinder & Football:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/07/14/ian-penman/fassbinder-the-football-fan/
Band of TLS subs:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2009/06/spirit-of-play-will-the-tls-band-get-to-number-one.html

Tx I'll look out for Herbert.

(xp) I posted on an RWF thread his Top 10 greatest footballers of all time, from memory I think Helmut Haller was no.1

Thanks for the FAP, ILB people.

There was some good talk.
Anti-rockism, artists who do and don't write their own songs, love and loss, record shops in seaside towns, British Catholic fiction of the mid-C20.

And on the way back with Woof - the peculiar criticism of Tom Paulin, and Paul Morley, two great gifts for impressions at a time when impression quality control might not be at its best.

Woof insisted at one point: MARK SINKER IS IN WITH THE LRB NOW

haha I enjoy *insisting* especially in state of drunken (Penman/Sinker) confusion

I also enjoyed the Morley & Paulin impressions. I wish had a decent Greer (ideally Germaine, but Bonnie might do) – we could have given the Lewisham line a full tribute to the 90s Late Review.

tbh I felt (after 4 pints) that my Paulin was rusty but my Morley at times was so dead-on it might as well have been Morley.

Anti-rockism, artists who do and don't write their own songs, love and loss, record shops in seaside towns, British Catholic fiction of the mid-C20.

Don't forget Tim's secret other life as an air-sea rescue pilot.

Yes !!!

Wasn't this Mark in the LRB? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v13/n13/letters#letter5

I hopey not.

Julio I do have the Ungaretti, but not a spare, sadly.

I took a pic (two, actually) of my PMEPs, and loaded them to Flickr for your perusal, damned if I can work out how to post a link though. Maybe these will work:

https://m.flickr.com/photos/37872438@N00/14745397534/
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/37872438@N00/14744574171/

But maybe not.

Well done Tim!

We have all forgotten to mention the most extensive and heated discussion of the night: Amelia Fletcher's betrayal of the radical aesthetics of 'My Best Friend' and 'Pastels Badge' in accepting an OBE.

And the fugue state induced by 'Pastels Badge'.

Looks good Tim, something to aspire to :)

See people might want another round :-)

Thing is I may not be able to turn up to the autumn one but lets set a date down. How is next Thursday 30th.