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Back to the states...

M.Alki - 2-6-2010 at 05:05 AM

Back again from Tuesday, already have a load of shows im going to and incase I have a spare minute BD has sent me a list of any I may have missed hearing of!
Celebrating my birthday when im over this time, have a coupla places in mind but any other suggestions for a place preferably in NYC or NJ that wont be too dead on a Monday night? Was going to do something on the Sunday but didnt want to tear any of my friends away from their other halfs on Valentines!

wez138 - 2-6-2010 at 05:08 AM

Oh yeah shit, its Valentines day soon.


I hope She gets me something good this year.....

ChadBeantown - 2-6-2010 at 08:44 AM

Come to Boston for the Welch Boys shows!!!

jonnynewbreed - 2-6-2010 at 08:59 AM

I'm going to be in London in May. I'll be in London on the 10th and going to brighton for the 13th for The Great Escape festival. Beers??

M.Alki - 2-6-2010 at 10:19 AM

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Originally posted by ChadBeantown
Come to Boston for the Welch Boys shows!!!


I had been considering this but looks like im actually going to end up at either the madball/wisdom in chains/bulldoze show or e-town concrete that weekend as they are both a little nearer than Boston! :(

M.Alki - 2-6-2010 at 10:22 AM

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Originally posted by jonnynewbreed
I'm going to be in London in May. I'll be in London on the 10th and going to brighton for the 13th for The Great Escape festival. Beers??


Im always down for a beer, hit me up nearer the time as a reminder, I know im in Portugal at some point April/May with Ninebar but hopefully I should be in London when you're around.
Im always looking for an excuse to show new people this place whenever I can...
http://www.belgo-restaurants.co.uk/drinks
Does some of the most awesome and random kinds of beer.

BDx13 - 2-6-2010 at 11:26 AM

is there one in clapham?
didn't go in, but it sounds familiar.
wish i knew!

M.Alki - 2-6-2010 at 11:34 AM

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Originally posted by BD
is there one in clapham?
didn't go in, but it sounds familiar.
wish i knew!


Yup there is one on Clapham high street, I have never been to that one though as I seem to always just go to the one in Covent Garden.
You remember when we were at luch the other week I was telling you about the place with all the fruit beers and other stuff? That's the place in case you didnt figure!

Next time you're over BD we'll go there instead of The Oval....on our way to MAX II of course....haha!

BDx13 - 2-6-2010 at 05:14 PM

oh, yeah, ok.
makes sense... those belgians and all their beers.

ya know, the oval certainly got the job done, but i was a much bigger fan of the fentiman arms. i'd go over at night by myself after the kids were in bed and read out in the back garden.

REV.PAULIE - 2-8-2010 at 06:19 AM

My bar is VERY open for business...I'll hook you up with hooch,being the "birthday girl" and attraction for the eve...Just tell the guys who are too sissy to say "Hello," to me to keep their complaints about my "curmudgeonlyself" to a minimum...It's not like I can't hear these fags once the door closes...

M.Alki - 2-8-2010 at 07:28 AM

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Originally posted by BD
oh, yeah, ok.
makes sense... those belgians and all their beers.

ya know, the oval certainly got the job done, but i was a much bigger fan of the fentiman arms. i'd go over at night by myself after the kids were in bed and read out in the back garden.


Is the Fentiman the really off-key one or the slightly nicer, not so full of crazy, shady drunks one?! Those 2 pubs at the end of the road, I've only been in one of them once I think!

M.Alki - 2-8-2010 at 07:31 AM

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Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
My bar is VERY open for business...I'll hook you up with hooch,being the "birthday girl" and attraction for the eve...Just tell the guys who are too sissy to say "Hello," to me to keep their complaints about my "curmudgeonlyself" to a minimum...It's not like I can't hear these fags once the door closes...


Im assuming that's the same bar I came to with Cuz n them lot the night of your bday?
I'll defo drop by at some point, will be a Mon or Tues night if you're around on either?
I hope those complaints didn't come from anyone I was with!

BDx13 - 2-8-2010 at 10:41 AM

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Originally posted by BD
oh, yeah, ok.
makes sense... those belgians and all their beers.

ya know, the oval certainly got the job done, but i was a much bigger fan of the fentiman arms. i'd go over at night by myself after the kids were in bed and read out in the back garden.


Is the Fentiman the really off-key one or the slightly nicer, not so full of crazy, shady drunks one?! Those 2 pubs at the end of the road, I've only been in one of them once I think!


i never worked up the nerve to enter either of those pubs by the tube station - hannover arms and the greyhound, i think.

fentiman arms is definitely a nicer joint than both of those. from matty's, crossclapham and directly across the street is fentiman road - it's two blocks down on the right. http://www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/thefentimanarms/

mattybar - 2-8-2010 at 11:10 AM

yep, very nice pub and a very nice street.

when you come back Duane (which reminds me i have to reply to your email, sorry dude), you have to check out The Prince Wales in Cleaver Square. About 15 minutes walk from Oval tube in this really quiet street called Cleaver Square.

It's like you're not in London anymore.

Discipline - 2-8-2010 at 11:51 AM

Wish I could afford to travel.

BDx13 - 2-8-2010 at 12:43 PM

yeah, the prince of whales was on my list but just never happened.
there were a few others as well...

M.Alki - 2-13-2010 at 05:08 PM

Well it was nice to see BD at Madball last night dancing away! haha Even if I did only turn up 15 mins before Madball finished...
Going to the E-Town Concrete/Ill Bill/Mongoloids/Razorblade Handgrenade show in NJ tonight and Pulling Teeth/Strike Anywhere/Ruiner/Blacklisted in Baltimore tomorrow after getting my Hippo tattoo, yes, I said a Hippo!

BDx13 - 2-14-2010 at 01:41 AM

yeah, yeah!
damn, that was the first time i danced at a show in like three years.
good to see you and the crew as well.
hope charlotte is feeling better today.

i'll post up some photos in the next few days.

M.Alki - 2-16-2010 at 02:07 PM

Seeing you look so happy whilst dancing was great! haha
Yeah the ladies totally loved you, Georgina and Melissa were both saying how lovely you are on the way home.
I still havnt put my pics up from last time! I need to get on that when I get home end of this week.

Last night was the birthday celebrations, wasnt sure I wanted to go out but did in the end and dragged Muttley to karaoke with us girls, his refusal to sing stood firm though!

And thanks again to the Rev for the shots and enduring me go on about my love for Hippos whilst trying to work!

MikeFromInhuman - 2-18-2010 at 02:23 PM

M.Alki!
Good to meet you the show Tuesday, hope you had fun!
MCS

BDx13 - 2-18-2010 at 03:05 PM

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Seeing you look so happy whilst dancing was great! haha


i don't dance very often - before that show, it had been maybe three or four years - but when i do, i have fun.

people are so fucking concerned with being the king of the pit... standing around, looking hard, waiting for the heaviest parts of the heaviest songs before they start executing their choreographed series of windmills and spinkicks.

fuck that. get loose. have fun.

i felt bad for madball. there was definitely more standing than dancing. at one point, i was running around - still in my winter coat, hat and gloves - screaming at people to start moving. nuthin'... at least until 'set it off' got played.