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[hirez]

I think that was fun.

[ That 'how did we meet?' thing - I'm game. Largely because I'm usually introduced to people when incapacitated in one way or another. I'm going to turn into that bloke out of Gigi, I can tell. ]

(Obviously turning into a bloke out of Gigli would be a freight wuss'n deff. Yerse.)

Edit: Mad thing. Makes London sound much more interesting.

Comments

[hazeii.livejournal.com]

Swarf gig at the Camden Underworld. You were indeed incapacitated.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

In the bar at ground level while waiting for the queue to disperse, surely? Or was that a later one?

[lproven.livejournal.com]

WHS!

You were in the World's End, talking loudly about Steve Cassidy, and I interrupted, rudely, to your evident astonishment. It took me *hours* to associate the genial John Hawkes-Reed with the ununtterably aloof and permanently GotherThanThou hirez@cix.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Should probably add that at this point I'd know hirez@cix, purely through that medium, for about 12y...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... Even though it's always been jhawkes@cix... :p

(I'm right. There is someone else trading on my average good name. I get the bastard's hangovers for one thing.)

[lproven.livejournal.com]

[G] I have that, too. I think I get entire football teams' sometimes.

However, a rigorous program of training has made them happily very rare these days. (Hangovers, that is. Not football teams, alas.)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

My Cix 'persona' was the result of random combinations of speed, beer, acid and coffee, with the obvious personality-erosion that those stimulants enable.

It's odd, sometimes, to look at the (very limited) archives I have from then. It's 'me', I think, but a howling teenage self-destructive version with the attention-span and manners of a mink.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

I can see that would be both entertaining and very, very scary...

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Ahh, sig, ID, what difference?

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

I think I met you on Lee's roof swigging on a bottle, hat at an angle looking as you always look. Handsome and deep in thought.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember the first time you met me and J was the Interlock gig at the Two Pigs...I could be wrong, though I wasn't drinking...

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

ooh could be. That was definantly where I met you. Time passes so fast it frightens me!

[steer.livejournal.com]

I met you in the... um... what is the Dev called when it is in Whitby? Um... the Elsinor. We'd both had one or two and I can't remember how we got chatting but we talked for ages about old computery things and just generally interesting stuff.

[fross.livejournal.com]

christ, i can't even remember what *year* we met. 96 probably. umm. highgateish? one of us was wearing a dress?

god, do you have a better idea than i do?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Nope. Were you at that sodding festival at the Astoria that Rosetta headlined? Insolence or Imbroglio or IBS or something?

[fross.livejournal.com]

oh god yes! wow i remember that now. did we meet there?

christ, that's so long ago it's like someone else's memory.

(and it was probably me wearing a dress)

[feyeleanor.livejournal.com]

If that's the festival I think it is, I was there as well... but didn't know either of you at the time!

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

In the Dev briefly, in about... um... 2000? Next time I saw you was in Slimes, and you completely blanked me, and then we met again at a party, and it turns out you simply didn't recognise me with fewer clothes on. :-)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes, I remember the Dev-thing. At least I think I do. -bat was threatening to set you on WD, yes?

And indeed the party as Niceboots towers ditto.

The slime-thing is/was just me trying to be a respectful-of-other's-space pro-feminist thinking bloke.[1] The less clothing, the more care I take to studiously Not Look. Unless of course I've been invited to admire a particular outfit or clothing item.

(And the sheer crush of people always sent me right into Tube-Mode.)

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

[1] Though now I come to write it down, it's kind of a bit pointless given the nature and point of dressing up. Gah!

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

I think we started speaking when we got into a conversation about Stockhausen on Pure. No idea when we actually met IRL, I expect it was at Whitby and both of us were too drunk to remember!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

CV shirt?

Before that I think I was rambing about post-punk and the colour of H/H 100 combo amps.

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I remember now; both of us being quite relieved that the other wasn't quite as unapproachable and scary as they were in our heads! I still have the shirt somewhere :)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Fivers to the usual address for silence.

Probably best to slip a few to codepope too.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... And biketrouble.

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

I can't for the life of me remember the first time we met. I am guessing it was circa 1999 or so? I "knew" you online from ukpg for some time prior to that. I seem to vaguely recall (though both of us would've been incapacitated) it was a Chaos Engine Christmas gig. Possibly one where you DJ'd? My memory for meeting people is bad.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

My memory of that night is a complete blur, other than playing Herbie Hancock at a roomload of blank faces.

See, that's why I've never been asked to DJ since. Apart from the event in Chicago where I spent the entire weekend projectile vomiting in a hotel room rather than playing records at horrified punters.

[reddragdiva]

Whitby. Elsie or Spa?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. I'm sure there was a mob/conversation where it transpired that I was the only chap who'd not viewed ver Sevs. Indeed, one chap had put them on stage. (In Perth?)

[reddragdiva]

I'm not sure who it was who had put them on, don't think it had been in Perth.

[redcountess]

Whitby, either November 2002 or April 2003.

[grega.livejournal.com]

Briefly at Whitby in April '97 but more so at Epitaph(s) later that year.

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

I suspect one of Nic's parties in Highgate shortly after I moved to London. There may have been gay porn.

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

In London, going with a bunch of people to that nice vegetarian Indian in ?Kensington?.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Started in the Windmill and off to Indian Veg in Chapel Market?

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

The Windmill is that place on/near Tottenham Court Road? Sounds about right. Or was that the kebab time?

[ex-halja931.livejournal.com]

1995 or was it 1996? In Chicago, IL toward the end of the year. Some bar (Neo?, Delilah's?, Aftermath?--though I think that was closed by then). It's all a blur but I bet we both had a Guinness in our hands at the time!

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Actually, Neo's in April 1996.

The end of the year (1996) was when we stayed with you when we got married.
:)

[dcarson.livejournal.com]

New Year's Eve, end of 2000.. party at naughtypixie and juliann's place, if I recall correctly. Which I may not, since it was NYE and all.

Then subsequently at Whitby the next year, and then at a Dream Disciples gig in Camden a little later on..

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it was a Whitby ninety-flurble (7? 8?). But if you were half as drunk as me, then I was twice as drunk as you...

[specialunclet.livejournal.com]

no bloody idea mate,

but i think the last time involved steam elephants

[loulou666.livejournal.com]

As I said in Pat's journal, I don't remember the first time I met you guys, but it would have been around '97-'98 and either in Slimes or at Whitby.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

In this one, or one of the parallel ones?

Possiblilities include :
-You picked up the spilled contents of my pencil case outside Hut10 and fashioned them into a umbrella.
- Taking a wrong turn in the D&P you enter the ladies room and scrounge mascara.
- I spilt my pint on you while "Rocking with Rita"
- Belgium
- Some Chaos-related thingie.

[feyeleanor.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the details.
I was looking glamorous. You were drinking guinness. We talked crap and space-time expanded to accommodate...

[godgirl.livejournal.com]

at the nick cave signing in tower in 97. went for a meal with you two and bob at tokyo diner after. you talked about roadkill.

we were all younger then. and no so bitter.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It must have been Virgin if we walked down to TD after.

Bitter? I hope not. Growed up? Probably.

[godgirl.livejournal.com]

look who's had their mind on other things...... :/

of course it was virgin!
im still peeved that the pics steph took of me with nick cave never came out cos her camera was broken.[1]

why do i never get to meet famous people???[2]

*pout*

[1] only when i think about it, which is almost never. still not read king ink2!!! ;p
[2] ok, ive met a few, but not as many as i feel i should have, given my age and past-times.... [3][5]
[3] oh and that matthew kelly whot was off the telly used to get in my lift at the hospital but that doesnt count as i never spoke to him. [4]
[4]esp after the questionable child porn scandal which turned out to be slander! but that beard was always a bit... hmmm....
[5]ok so i once did some medicines for edward tudor pole but i never mentioned to him i knew who he was, cos i dont do that sort of thing[6]
[6]is that why i never meet famous people? cos im too polite to disturb them unless entirely necessary? [7]
[7] i.e. it's in my job description.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[6]is that why i never meet famous people? cos im too polite to disturb them unless entirely necessary?

Too much self-respect to go fawning over 'rock stars'?

The punk rock was about breaking down the barriers between 'us' and 'them' - Here's three chords, now form a band / 303 + 101 + 808 = Now form a band / Anyone can play guitar.

I try not to do it because I never know what to say to the little dears.

[godgirl.livejournal.com]

possibly.

and yes, ive never thought of anything intelligent to say to wayne hussey.

i complained to eldritch that they didnt play marian in london and he said theyd play it the second night, i complained to him in leeds that all the chippies were closed and he blamed the rugby in wales.

as for robert smith... god knows! im not in a position to tell him to get himself down the gym but he sure looks like he's headed for a heart attack unless he gets something done about his chunkiness soon... youth isnt on his side forever, sadly.....

i did fawn over AAE when i first met them, but now i can poke fun at them instead ;)