My set at the Calling

For once, the decks were working, just the mixer seems to get worse.
Not a lot of people dancing, sadly. Just proves that most people will only dance to stuff they know but at least greebotrill, necro_angel and hampsterboy came out regularly.
It was good fun but I so need more practice. Still, I didn't fuck up and both the Trauma Pet demo and the Killing Miranda Promo played.
( Setlist )

After that, Loki played the same old shit as always...

A fun afternoon and evening

Extracted myself from work and headed towards town when riksowden called that the little party were on their way to the Cambridge Blue so I parked in Sturton Street and wandered there.
Met, hugged and greeted greebotrill and eddyfate and went inside to have a nice lunch, interrupted by hardwired calling riksowden's mobile causing a little fine/donation (The Cambridge Blue have a no mobile policy). Chatted about this and that and waited for hardwired to arrive.

Next stop was the youth hostel so the Webbs and Rik could check into their rooms and then we took the bus into town, meeting up with andrewdavies at the Round Church. Next stop was the mighty Castle Hill, back into town for a walk around the colleges and a visit to the Fudge Kitchen, around Market Square, the bookshop alley, randomly ran into deliberateblank and received a phonecall from susanofstohelit.

Everybody was thirsty so we had a drink at Clowns in King St and then moved on to the Hopbine for Thai dinner. There we were joined by susanofstohelit who I think I wouldn't have recognized in the street (short bob, different glasses) and mcghiever.

Then hardwired receives a text message and states rather calmly "The popcorn room is on fire" (paraphrased) as if it were the most normal thing and to be expected on a Tuesday afternoon. That got a few giggles. ;o)

The Druids was next but unfortunately only autumn_storm and twentypence of the usual crowd showed up.

I set off early so I got to the Kambar in time and still had to wait for them to turn up and unlock. Got ready for 9, though and started my set with something obscure, moving on to neofolk, dark ambient, medieval crossover, EBM, industrial metal and finally some nice hard EBM and electro.

Unfortunately everyone was really tired so I said and hugged goodbye to my American friends.
Stayed til a bit after midnight chatting to vyvyan, razornet, lsur and owdbetts among others.

Work again tomorrow and Tai Chi in the evening. Hopefully I won't be too knackered to meet up with susanofstohelit and mcghiever afterwards for a drink before they set off to Scotland.

In an ideal world

I would have enough money to buy this bunker (thanks to lsur for the tip-off), be able to acquire all planning permissions (big problem: it's Grade II listed) and raise the funds to convert it into a club, gain an entertainment licence and tadaa, new alternative (game) venue in Cambridge.

I can dream, OK? ;o)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Who's up for coming along?
Monday, 4th of October, 18:20, VUE