05 May 2006

More Policemen...

This is turning into a very odd week again, we had the prince Charles incident on weds and today we had more coppers in sight. The two houses next door (10 and 11, one of which I am supposed to be moving into next year) were broken into this morning and the first thing I knew about it was the policeman knocking on the door with my landlady's mum asking if we heard anything. The scary thing is that they got in through the loft which is shared along the whole row of houses, they could easily have got us. The only thing that I can think of which would have stopped them is the fact that we were actually in, the others were on their school placements so left about half six in the morning. The loft entrance is in Vicky's room and she was out on placement too, had to go and check everything was still in her room. Can just imagine telling her, 'erm, Vicky, someone came and stole your laptop while we were in bed, sorry about that.'

We went all uptight about security for literally a whole hour, but it's so warm we just opened all the windows and thought sod it. Don't know what I would do if they took my computer though, all my research and notes for my assessments are on here so I'd have to go through it all again  Don't know why they would take mine though, it's broken and I have to keep the power cable attached to the thing using a Poppets box. Very technical. Saving me about a hundred pound though, and you get the added bonus of eating the poppets. (Toffee flavour, for anyone who cares)

06 November 2006

Had a such a good time over the past few days! Got to Nottingham (and the skanky hotel) yesterday with Jemma, checked in, did all the boring stuff and then set out. Was quite impressed that we managed to find our way to Rock City relying purely on my memories from Seether. Went via the cutest pub in the world, it was very 'olde worlde' but had Tool playing in the background, it was called something like The Salutation Inn for future ref - on Maid Marion Way. Managed to get to Rock City an hour early but was afraid of losing it again so just stayed put, we started our very own queue (with us at the front) which was slightly surreal. Saw some brilliant outfits (Goths are the best dressed people in the world) and a hoard of tweenie chavs who hired a limo and drove past a million times before falling out, the driver looked kinda ashamed to be there.

Was kinda surprised about how small the basement actually was but managed to get a fairly cool spot next to the bar and two people from the stage (unfortunately one of the two people was 6 foot something and had a really irritating girlfriend who tried to drag him right infront of me). The support were 'Stoneman' - slutty (in a good way) growling goths from Switzerland, they were lots of fun at the start but then their songs started sounding the same, kinda lost patience with them at the end wanting Deathstars to come on but would have done even if they were fab. Couldn't understand what they said between songs, heard 'Switzerland' a lot. On the plus side, got some fab photos of them ... photos look kinda rubbish here though.

Massively long break in the middle with crew guys doing their thing and annoying girl trying to shift tall guy in front again (my elbow in his back usually stopped that, feel kinda guilty now though). Got kinda bored and miffed but that all went away the second they hit the stage, couldn't help getting hyped. Was cool seeing the new guy, worried he's not human though, his hair was just as perfect at the end as at the start.

Can't remember the set list, they prob did nearly all the songs though, can remember all the main ones. Most of them came with really cheesy intros from Whiplasher in a thick Swedish accent but I think my fave was something about his loving everyone in the crowd but that it was incestuous, he was our mother and we were his children, this was the motherzone [cue 'Motherzone']. He did the 'scream if you want me to take my clothes off' thing too, only half carried it out though (nice tattoo). They did the encore thing - walked off the stage, came back and Nightmare was the only one with a shirt on, hmmmm.