who's the whitest boy on the beach now?
Jul. 23rd, 2018 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
satyricaI headed out last Sunday to the scorchingly hot Citadel, another London-park one-dayer, this time in Gunnersbury Park. It had a lot more going on than the Finsbury Park gigs, both in terms of music stages and other nooks and crannies, although my colleague discovered it wasn't nearly as family friendly as advertised. It also had very little shade around the Main Stage where most of the bands I wanted to see were playing. I met up with J and family, who were over from Chicago, (but were literally just off the plane so the two youngest spent most of the day asleep in a tiny strip of shade) and PFW as well.
I got there early as Shame were playing near the start of proceedings (and didn't stint on energy despite looking rather like they were wilting) and then caught The Horrors, who are one of these bands I've been 'meaning to check out' for about a decade; I'd definitely see them again as it turns out. My other main attraction were Fat White Family who still have a fabulously unwholesome air about them. After that I somewhat lost interest, lasting most of the way through Chvrches but only a song and a half into Tame Impala, partly they weren't really my thing and partly my energy reserves had just run down.
I then had a pretty quiet week, I hung out round N's on Wednesday and we watched a DVD, then saw Asylums play an early-evening set at Rough Trade East the next day: I tried heading on down to another gig at the Windmill the same evening but got there to find the band I was going for had pulled out.
My weekend was more packed: I met up with Ketch after work Friday to see the Rodin/Parthenon exhibition at the British Museum, which was really interesting and made me look again at a lot of the Parthenon sculptures, which we had a wander around the rest of afterwards. Then I headed up to the New River Studios near Manor House, a pleasingly DIYish place, to see the pleasingly DIYish Cassells. Then Saturday I double-birthdayed: school friend Em having High Tea in her Oxfordshire garden in the afternoon, then back to a terrace in Dalston for N's friend T in the evening. I stayed over at N's so didn't have far to go for our Book Group picnic in E's garden in Leyton on Sunday. I only stopped home briefly before heading back out to Camden for some rowdy drinks with Josh, then I slipped away to the Camden Assembly for a gig. Two bands I've been following were on: Calva Louise (female-fronted grunge pop) and then the energetic False Heads
I got there early as Shame were playing near the start of proceedings (and didn't stint on energy despite looking rather like they were wilting) and then caught The Horrors, who are one of these bands I've been 'meaning to check out' for about a decade; I'd definitely see them again as it turns out. My other main attraction were Fat White Family who still have a fabulously unwholesome air about them. After that I somewhat lost interest, lasting most of the way through Chvrches but only a song and a half into Tame Impala, partly they weren't really my thing and partly my energy reserves had just run down.
I then had a pretty quiet week, I hung out round N's on Wednesday and we watched a DVD, then saw Asylums play an early-evening set at Rough Trade East the next day: I tried heading on down to another gig at the Windmill the same evening but got there to find the band I was going for had pulled out.
My weekend was more packed: I met up with Ketch after work Friday to see the Rodin/Parthenon exhibition at the British Museum, which was really interesting and made me look again at a lot of the Parthenon sculptures, which we had a wander around the rest of afterwards. Then I headed up to the New River Studios near Manor House, a pleasingly DIYish place, to see the pleasingly DIYish Cassells. Then Saturday I double-birthdayed: school friend Em having High Tea in her Oxfordshire garden in the afternoon, then back to a terrace in Dalston for N's friend T in the evening. I stayed over at N's so didn't have far to go for our Book Group picnic in E's garden in Leyton on Sunday. I only stopped home briefly before heading back out to Camden for some rowdy drinks with Josh, then I slipped away to the Camden Assembly for a gig. Two bands I've been following were on: Calva Louise (female-fronted grunge pop) and then the energetic False Heads
