So things have been pretty great of late, despite having my bag stolen last Wednesday. It had quite a lot of my stuff in it, including passport, provisional drivers license, debit card, cheque book, Young Person's Railcard, a Twofold hoodie and an AC Milan scarf amongst other things. I was watching Rolo Tomassi at the time, so that numbed the pain somewhat, but it still sucked.
Anyhow, while piecing my life back together I suddenly realised I wouldn't be able to buy tickets for Sunny Day Real Estate without a debit card, but thankfully someone else bought them for me so all is well! They've just announced that they're playing Groezrock Festival the day after so I'm very tempted to make the trip across to Belgium for it... we shall see!
Had a nice weekend with Esmee, introduced her to some people at the hockey club, had a few drinks, then we headed off to Brixton to see Johnny Foreigner. Because of the situation with my stuff being stolen I couldn't buy a ticket in advance, so Alexei kindly sorted us out and Esmee got him a small bottle of gin to say thanks. Aw.
The next morning I'd promised to cook her breakfast and then in horror realised that I actually had no food in the fridge. Thankfully I had enough things to make pancakes, which was pretty great. Band practice was good too, we finally managed to agree on a link between a 3/4 and 4/4 part of a new song, which meant we're pretty close to finishing it now. It's quite cool, starts off quite twee and then completely changes into some kind of American Football-esque guitar playing sorta thing, it's nice. Bit epic at the end too. Don't think we'll play it live though.
The rest of the week has been fairly laid back, another practice last night, also went well. I'm seeing Oceansize play tonight, which is a bit odd because I hadn't actually planned to (I really don't like Heaven as a venue). The thing is, I was clearing out the stock room at work last Friday (now that we're pushing ahead with plans for the studio) and I found a box of their merch on one of the shelves. Before they played Kingston in October they sent all their merch over to me to collect at the Peel and sell that tour, and I genuinely thought I'd given them all their boxes - especially as noone mentioned to me that there was anything missing. Turns out this had just been put on a shelf by my dad to keep out of the way and he hadn't told me. I rang the band and they've kindly sorted me out for tonight but I got a bit of a shitty text when they insinuated that I'd held onto the box as a ploy to get guestlist. Fucking hell. Maybe a few years ago it would've crossed my mind but if I'd wanted to go to the gig, I'd have bought a ticket ages ago, like I've done with every band I've seen so far this year (bar the JoFo fiasco, but that couldn't be helped, given the situation). It does suck when I'm genuinely trying to do a good thing and I get pulled up about it - although I understand their grievances.
So, I hope it will be a good gig and as a show of goodwill - not that I really need to, but I feel like I owe it to them to show it's not about getting into places on freebies.
The weekend looks good. Seeing Esmee on Friday, hockey on Saturday followed by a gig in Epsom. Can't wait!
Current listening:
Otterley - EP 1
Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP
Oceansize - Home And Minor EP
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