FAP London

Cool, just got to the commercial now

Good group of us here now! 👍

regards to some 😘

"Is E____ terrorising you?"
"She's doing as she does"

That almost went horribly wrong. All the trains from Herne Hill were cancelled but I managed to get a bus and 2 tubes to London Bridge and my train arrives in 7 minutes. then in theory I get a bus from Tunbridge Wells and I get home about 2:30 if I'm lucky...

Once again I completely avoided talking to Fizzles. I swear I'm not doing this deliberately

Blimey, for once things are working out, if my train existed I would be arriving at Hastings now but the bus actually turned up this time and just stopped at Battle so I might even get home before 2!

Hope you got home ok

Thanks all for a nice eve

I had a fine time, thanks all.

Fizzles, this was the book I was recommending: https://www.influxpress.com/attrib-and-other-stories

Thanks Tim. And it's always a real pleasure - doubly so to see ilx faces in your familiar local. Colonel Poo's frosty high-hatting of me notwithstanding.

having popped back in the commercial while waiting for a chinese takeaway i realise pinefox’s pleasantry about Belly was in fact anchored in the actual music they were playing.

I had a fine time, thanks all.

Fizzles, this was the book I was recommending: https://www.influxpress.com/attrib-and-other-stories🕸

That book sounds quite worth looking at!

Fizzles, if I mentioned Belly it was because they were playing 'Feed The Tree'.

Ah, yes, that's what they were playing the other night as well.

Eley Williams has enormous fun with the sound and look of language, and the heft of words and their relation to perception and memory. Normally I'm a little wary of the poeticisation of prose, but I don't think that's what's happening here. It reminds me more of Robert Louis Stevenson's approach to sentence construction, where he recommends an awareness of the patterns of sound across sentences. Love and loss are specifically realised through this prism of language and thought, which makes their representation more elliptical than more conventional representations of those emotions, but more pointed, more tender, with a bursting sense of things felt but not directly expressed so that, to quote Isaac Rosenberg, they are 'understandable but still ungraspable'.

A brutal comedown.

Thanks to everyone who has come to find me in Brixton - now having lunch in Morley’s - out and about again at about 1 pic.twitter.com/CiJsiFOVhb

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 8, 2019

should have been stony-faced next to a white person in the third pic

also sorry we didn't show up, organise another one and we will do our best

When’s the next one? I’d like to go to one eventually...

Hasn't been anmounced, and I am guessing it will be central. Usually a 2/3 month gap between 'em.

Central is good, obviously both of us can’t go due to kittens/being the same person

bring kittens

for everyone

Revive! Going to be in London from Nov. 7 through the 12th.

Good forward thinking - with a year's notice, there's next to no chance that we'll not get something sorted.

Hooray for ILX apathy!

f apathy

So what’s the plan then? When are you free ET?

7th is best, but could do Friday for a bit.

not to jump confusingly in ahead of this but geeta dayal is calling for a nice big london birthday celebration gathering for her eve of fri 15 nov (location tbd)

come one come all :) but she specifically mentioned you xyzzzz__ so be there if possible!

Oh cool, yes do inform of location and I shall be there :)

I will be at the mtn gts show on the 15th!!

So what’s the plan then? When are you free ET?

I'm going to be at The Raincoats gig on the 10th, but have most other nights (8, 9, 11) free. Heading up north after that and won't be back in London until the 21st.

Actually could do any of those though 8th is best

There's a pretty good chance I'm going to go to this Graham Duff and Adam Curtis talk on the 8th. Perhaps the 9th?

any ideas for a good geetaFAP locale this friday?

(large-ish rather than small, centralish rather than hackneyside)

*takes out year-long hourglass, turns it over*

Lexington obvs!

geeta has opted for the racketeer nr kings X, from 6

Racketeer is a good choice. I have never been to a FAP but aspire to do so within my earthly existence.

See you then!!

(Elvis - sorry I couldn't get to arrange anything, weekend filled up with duty all of a sudden)

I'm going to try to make it to the Racketeer in between engagements this evening, I'm not sure whether it will be possible.

Anyone fancying a hang-out on Sunday afternoon might note that we're convening a rare Hangover Lounge on Sunday at the Pembury Tavern in Hackney, all welcome, no action expected apart from some ale soaked relaxing.

bit of a step for me

Yes, I'm going to a birthday thing for someone in the work tonight - also in Kings Cross, coincidentally - so unlikely to show.

Another US ilxor is in London tonight, playing a virtually sold-out Shepherd's Bush Empire lol

I am working until evening and unlikely to show for anything :( unless really persuaded. & tt is seeing Dashboard Confessional ffs

COME ON PEOPLE

to be clear i'm coming to this as shd everyone, my joke abt the distance to the pembury may have landed wrong

OK! See all you tankies, trots and lefty scum later!

look out for my gold trot hat

This additional US ILXOR will be seeing aforementioned other US ILXOR at said gig and is super excited tho sad to miss FAP.