Flashbacks from 'nam.

[hirez]

(Ch-ch-ch-Chippington)

It's been a couple of years since I turned up at the Copperfields Two Pigs for a gig. There's a Starbucks on the corner, Littlewoods is now a Primark and there's a tent out front of the Fuckin' Doesn't. Other than that...

... It was like being at a Whitby Warm-up, the Underworld and the Spa, largely simultaneously. Familiar elbows propping up an unfamiliar bar and once again the restaurant end is cluttered with amplifiers.

Marcus Serpentine looked like someone delivering a Web2.0 lecture over the top of a particularly intransigent section of Peel Programme. Mutant D&B breaks leavened with big gay electrodisko. And why not?

Emerson, Lake and Roger kick it. Old stuff is as good as ever, but the band seem to really gel when playing the newer tracks.

CE seriously shred. It's like being in Newport TJs. A weird kind of nostalgia, and probably an indicator that it's time for Nineties Nites in grotty clubs up and down the land.

In short: a completely storming evening of the sort one cheerfully remembers. I'm very glad I was there and a right and proper end point.

It was lovely to see you all, we should go for a beer sometime soon.

Comments

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

In about month suit you?

[grega.livejournal.com]

We will, in two weeks :o)

Of course I'm likely to be a litle busy but hopefully we can exchange a few words.

[uk-jon.livejournal.com]

It's been JHR/Hirez month on Brierly Hill 90210. Last week's show featured the Cravats/Paul Hartnoll single mentioned in a previous post, the previous week featured PCP Radio's "Big Black v Aaron Spectre" and this week (show just went on air half an hour ago) features the Earth Loop Recall track. I'm assuming ELR in this post = Earth Loop Recall and not Emerson Lake and Roger, the post-punk industrialists from Havordfordwest. To check out this week's blithering idiocy, tune in at www.live365.com/stations/jon_m. The previous shows are available as podcasts through iTunes (search for Brierly Hill 90210) or at http://web.mac.com/jmiller22.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Emerson, Lake and Roger. Yes!

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Good call. Catch up with you sometime soon.