Presently at the internet cafe in Charing Cross, London. 1am in the morning. I feel a bit sick - the fact is that, I'm eating chocolate chips biscuits and drinking pineapple fizzy drink in the same time. I have to stay awaken until ....until 10 pm tonight or something like that. I'm not really sure of the way I will manage it. Loads of coffee, gimme loads of coffee!!
For the first time in my life, I went tonight in Hackney, wich is the eastest point I've ever been to in London (E8, E8!!!). In fact, this is so remonte that the tube does not even go there...that was my trip of the month.
I woke up this morning at 10, read for about 4 hours and the decided to get up of my bed, joined Mimi in the living room to watch "Shrek", realised I was late, got ready and jumped in the bus to London. Arriving and, how to get there, how to get there? Made my way through the Starlink trains (something you could compare to the "trains de banlieue" in Montreal or the RER in Paris) and landed in this Hackney place. I got lost searching for the venue - should have turned left but took right....something I do everytime I go to a new place in London and makes me think "I hate this city." For you have to know, oh you all non-londoners, that the streets in London don't have their names shown on street corners like in every other city in the world. Here you have to guess if yes or no, you are on the right way. Very useful, considering above it all that even the londoners can not give you the right direction if you ask them. This is the most confusing city I've ever seen.
Long short story, I turned right but it was at the left. I walked for one hour, completely lost and feeling a bit insecure. I even asked my way to THREE different people, the three of them all telling me a different way. The last one was the good, and I finally stumbled across it : the London Ocean! From outside, it seemed quite promising, but my enthusiasm fastly fell; it was an old building all restored and redesigned inside and it looked like the Paramount cinema in Montreal : a big block of concrete with hollows inside to park people, make them have fun and enjoy the multitude of cafes and bars with cool lighting systems.
For the Manoir insiders : the song now playing here is Vivaldi's Spring....Fabienne, I will never forget you.
The band tonight was Godspeed You Black Emperor! probably the other Montreal band with an internationnal potential besides BranVan3000 (You think I'm talking nonsense saying that? I forgot a HUGE deathmetal band or you think that Moist deserved mote attention? Write!).
To confess everything, I had never listen to more than 3 songs from GYBE! in my life before tonight so the gig promised to be quite a shock. It was, definitely, the missing skin chunks from my hands can testify - I simply got transfixed by the music and I ended the gig with my nails firmly inserted in the flesh on my hands. It was an interesting experience, something that makes you either want to smash the furnitures around or roll on the floor, crying. Quite strange, actually. Music that you can listen to everyday? Certainly not.
For the first time in my life, I went tonight in Hackney, wich is the eastest point I've ever been to in London (E8, E8!!!). In fact, this is so remonte that the tube does not even go there...that was my trip of the month.
I woke up this morning at 10, read for about 4 hours and the decided to get up of my bed, joined Mimi in the living room to watch "Shrek", realised I was late, got ready and jumped in the bus to London. Arriving and, how to get there, how to get there? Made my way through the Starlink trains (something you could compare to the "trains de banlieue" in Montreal or the RER in Paris) and landed in this Hackney place. I got lost searching for the venue - should have turned left but took right....something I do everytime I go to a new place in London and makes me think "I hate this city." For you have to know, oh you all non-londoners, that the streets in London don't have their names shown on street corners like in every other city in the world. Here you have to guess if yes or no, you are on the right way. Very useful, considering above it all that even the londoners can not give you the right direction if you ask them. This is the most confusing city I've ever seen.
Long short story, I turned right but it was at the left. I walked for one hour, completely lost and feeling a bit insecure. I even asked my way to THREE different people, the three of them all telling me a different way. The last one was the good, and I finally stumbled across it : the London Ocean! From outside, it seemed quite promising, but my enthusiasm fastly fell; it was an old building all restored and redesigned inside and it looked like the Paramount cinema in Montreal : a big block of concrete with hollows inside to park people, make them have fun and enjoy the multitude of cafes and bars with cool lighting systems.
For the Manoir insiders : the song now playing here is Vivaldi's Spring....Fabienne, I will never forget you.
The band tonight was Godspeed You Black Emperor! probably the other Montreal band with an internationnal potential besides BranVan3000 (You think I'm talking nonsense saying that? I forgot a HUGE deathmetal band or you think that Moist deserved mote attention? Write!).
To confess everything, I had never listen to more than 3 songs from GYBE! in my life before tonight so the gig promised to be quite a shock. It was, definitely, the missing skin chunks from my hands can testify - I simply got transfixed by the music and I ended the gig with my nails firmly inserted in the flesh on my hands. It was an interesting experience, something that makes you either want to smash the furnitures around or roll on the floor, crying. Quite strange, actually. Music that you can listen to everyday? Certainly not.
posted by Andy at
19.3.02
