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I’ve found that the only way to possibly get an early night on a Sunday is by not going to sleep on Saturday night. A little Tony Hawk’s Underground, some crap late night tv, then the whole of Weeds season one (great show!), some photo editing, an episode of Robot Chicken, and finally an episode of The Shield which I haven’t seen since I bought season one on dvd about three years ago. That just about took me through the night, with plenty of coffee of course - coffee makers rule!
The reason for this seemingly weekly lapse of insanity is quite logical really. On a Friday and Saturday night I rarely go to sleep at a time that would be deemed reasonable for most days of the week, this brings disastrous results. Namely, that I rarely get out of bed before 12 noon or 1pm on a Sunday afternoon. Most of the day is spent in a haze, overcoming tiredness and/or a hangover. Due to rising at such a late hour, I would rarely be tired at a reasonable sleeping hour on any Sunday night for the nightmare that is waking for work in Monday morning.
A solution I have found: Don’t go to sleep. Eliminate that stage of waking up so late in the day, spend much of the day tired enough that I will almost fall asleep on my feet by late evening that waking early won’t be such a problem. Its a perfect plan - even if it doesn’t always work…
The past week was a relatively quiet one. Much of Monday to Thursday was spent indoors allowing my ass to melt into the imitation leather sofa as much as possible. The week before, not too dissimilar, with one or two more events slotted in.
On Tuesday, I met with the guys at General Fiasco for what could almost be considered drunken behavior, though no alcohol was involved. It’s great to see a band so willing to look silly for photos. They are smart enough to realise that they photographs won’t look silly when it’s all done.
After playing the Wii for the first time we headed to Up In The Attic. Two Door Cinema Club really know what they’re doing, with some cracker tunes.
I had only heard Joe Echo two hours prior to him getting onto the stage, not realising then that this was Ciaran Gribbin, ex-Leya frontman, who have parted ways in the recent months. With a different name and quite different sound Joe has got me looking excited to see him play again and forthcoming releases.
Thursday 11th October was an exciting, stressful and tiring - but mostly a lot of fun. With two excellent gigs on the very same night how does one choose? So naturally I went to both. I saw seven bands/artists compared with four or three depending on whether one chose The Empire or Laverys.
In The Empire was Gifted with four of the best bands in N.I.
In Lavery’s, another Oxjam gig as part of a very busy month of gigs around Belfast raising money for Oxfam.
It was a full week before another gig popped into my schedule of putting that sofa to good use. Though only the best will do. Radar, at the Speakeasy in Queens Students Union.
Friday, another Oxjam gig, and the most successful so far, in McHugh’s.
Finally we come to yesterday. A lack of blank cds, lack of ink, lack of ink cartridges in cartridge shops. It didn’t start off too well. Later, another Oxjam gig, this time in the Oh Yeah Music Centre on Gordon Street. The major difference between this gig and just about every other live music event was that it was an all ages event. Yes, lots of hyper, rude, trendy kids. No 20-something wants to be in the same venue as this crowd, though it is a good thing that underage kids get opportunities to see live music and to have somewhere to hangout.
Before the final band of the night we went to The Duke of York, where we spotted The Fools busking
Fighting With Wire are full of raw energy, lots of loud, fast and heavy songs. Many comparisons can be made between them and Nirvana, though in a good way. Between jokes about shit, front-man Cahir tells the crowd that they are almost ready to release the release date for their forthcoming album.
Everything’s going pr-etty well for me. I received some great news at the weekend, which I won’t divulge at this time - but soon. I also found out that I haven’t been receiving mail sent to my “@philokanephotography.com” email addresses. If you sent me something recently and I have not replied, that is the reason.
I’m off to get more coffee :)
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