Been a while since I updated, so here is a braindump. Last friday evening was spent with Clare at the Pav Tav. Fridays is quickly becoming one of my favourite nights out. Em sadly couldn't make it cos she was ill, but I still had fun making Clare dance and singing loudly to the Killers and Kate Bush covers. Got to sleep about 2am and then woke up about 6am to catch a coach to Norwich. Brighton city centre at 7am on a saturday is a very strange and peaceful place. If I remember I'll go take some photos one weekend. Walked round Norwich with Charlie in the afternoon and got scared by Castle Mall which, no matter which floor you are on, has an exit at ground level.

The gig itself was fantastic. The first support band, Ghostride seemed out of place and there were just two lonely blokes moshing. Hell is for Heroes were fantastic as ever, but their set seemed really short. Looking forward to their album on Monday. Some girl lost her shoe moshing and Charlie went around asking if anyone had seen it. :) Biffy Clyro were fantastic. Moshed. Came out to find snowball fight going on :) and Charlie managed to embarrass herself in front of HIFH. Sunday was spent travelling back to London, where I met Charlie's boyfriend, PJ and watched live comedy. I think I've falling in love with comedy and need to find something like the weekly event in Kingston.

Monday morning involved catching a train back to Brighton in time for work. Thanks to trains being late I managed to get into Brighton 20 minutes early. :S Wednesday was spent picking up the pieces after a powercut in the office. Only real casualty appears to be the hard disk in our external router. One quick replacement and reinstall later we were back up and running. Need to find out why fsck can't find /dev/sda3 and drops you into a shell, yet if you run fsck -a manually and then carry on with the boot process everythign works. Wondering if udev is involved somewhere. Spent Thursday trying to get Linux and Windows talking to a Nokia 6630 without luck. If anyone knows a decent phone that can sync with evolution 1.4 and can be used as a modem, I'd love to know.

Thursday night was spent in the Pav Tav with Em. 3 pints of vodka and coke before we went out directly contributed to me not remembering any music they played, me trying to drunkenly pull a croatian girl with bad fashion sense, waking up with a hangover and failing to work out what I did with a twenty pound note I had the night before. Managed to make it to the train station on time to find out my train hadn't. The train left 20 minutes late, waited 5 minutes at Gatwick where the driver said there were some problems with the train, moved off and stopped again in the middle of nowhere for anothr 10 minutes and then crept into East Croyden where we were all kicked off. Finally managed to get to London Bridge and catch the underground to Waterloo. The guy at the gates told me my ticket wasn't valid on the underground despite being to Waterloo and the fact that a women had let me onto the underground in the first place. Arrived at the Eurostar terminal just as the train was due to leave so I managed to miss my train. Thankfully the nice women at the ticket desk happily put me on the next train with no charge and got to join Noodles, mjg59 and stargirl. I'll do a further update on FOSDEM late in the weekend. Braindump over.

Yey, I've just bought tickets to go see Biffy Clyro and Hell is for Heroes in Norwich with my friend Charlie next weekend. They are playing in London on the 25th which would have been much easier for me to get to than Norwich, but that is the night I will be getting drunk in a bar in Brussels for FOSDEM. Annoyingly the same night, The Duke of York's cinema in Brighton is showing The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and Rushmore. :(

WTF?

I've just got back from the NME Awards tour at the Brighton Dome. Fantastic line up; Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Futureheads and The Killers. I was a little bit worried that I might bump into Dawn, but thankfully I managed to get there early and got a place right at the front and didn't move. Was probably a bad idea to drink alcohol before hand, but I wasn't moving and my bladder managed to survive thousands of screaming fans squashing me against the barrier. Did mean that I didn't have to spend the evening worrying if she was alone or not.

I've not heard much by Kaiser Chiefs, but they seemed pretty good. I'm not sure if I'd buy their album, but I might go see them again soon with some friends. I recognised a couple of their songs, but I can't think where I've heard them. I can't put into words how I feel about Bloc Party. They are definitely one of my favourite bands and I can't wait to get their album on the 14th. Tonight was the third time I've seen Bloc Party. The Futureheads is another band that I hadn't heard much of before the gig, but I appear to recognise a few more that I thought. I did think I wouldn't bother getting their album until I heard their new single. Definately worth buying the album for. And then we had The Killers. I can't get enough of the Killers. If you haven't listened to the album, you really should. You'll be hooked after a few listens. Again this is the third time I've seen them and definately the best time.

I'm definately looking forward to see the same line up again on Friday in Cambridge with Nikki. Appologies to Charlie, Em and especially Lisa, who would appear to ever so slightly jealous. This time I'll take my camera so you can see.