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Pubmeet@chipmusic gig/mini-festival: London, Sat 11th July 09

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"You". What do you have up north, horse and cart?
On the tube map I've got to hand, the label for Old Street says "Old Street ([British rail symbol] no weekend service)", which I'm pretty sure means the tube is still running, just not proper trains.
added on the 2009-06-26 14:03:16 by gasman gasman
We can have cars up here, and actually use them without continually swearing and eventually doing a jackson from the stress :) (And we don't have to pay for the privilege too \o/ )
added on the 2009-06-26 14:03:45 by psonice psonice
ah... you might well be right there mr gasman
added on the 2009-06-26 14:56:25 by evilpaul evilpaul
psonice you will not be able to explain the virtues of private forms of transport to people in london, because i have tried!
added on the 2009-06-26 15:53:56 by forestcre forestcre
forest: well, I can understand that. It's a simple choice really: Believe that public transport is actually ok, or realising just how bad it is but not having any choice but using it, and slowly going insane. I believe a lot of the nutcases you see around london are people who used to have a car.
added on the 2009-06-26 15:56:52 by psonice psonice
haha probably. it takes its toll on everyone here
added on the 2009-06-26 16:08:51 by forestcre forestcre
I confirm Old Street tube is open at the weekends, indeed it is the British rail part which is closed.
added on the 2009-06-29 03:05:13 by gwEm gwEm
I've just been told by the president of England that London is closed on 11th July 2009. All pubmeets and music events on that date are to be relocated to Bath.
added on the 2009-06-29 11:48:23 by doomdoom doomdoom
Yeah... ZX Spectrum sign on the advert but no AY-RIDERS in the concert.

That's highly idiotic from the organizers' side.
added on the 2009-06-29 12:08:26 by johny johny
not idiotic at all my friend, the ZX is a classic British machine, and this is a British event, and we will be featuring this machine :)
added on the 2009-07-01 15:29:10 by gwEm gwEm
tickets on the door, yes?

really looking forwards to this now :)
added on the 2009-07-01 15:36:29 by evilpaul evilpaul
tickets on the door :)

should be a great event!
added on the 2009-07-01 15:40:36 by gwEm gwEm
This is utterly happening, make no mistake. We're slightly worried it might hit capacity too, so head down in good time for pubmeetin'/music-listenin'/rootin'/tootin'.
added on the 2009-07-09 17:59:59 by syphus syphus
Oh hell, I only found out about this today and ran out of cash so I can't go :(

Oh well.. have fun guys!
See you @ 7!
added on the 2009-07-11 10:04:30 by 71M 71M
You're coming, Tim? Excellent!

See you all down there - we'll be soundchecking from 5 to 7, and I dunno if the Courtyard bar will be open before then, but I'm sure you can all find fulfillment for your Saturday afternoon Shoreditch drinking requirements in the near vicinity...
added on the 2009-07-11 13:04:32 by syphus syphus
can't go now cos i've superglued my fingers together
yes!!! get in!!! that means i can come now! =)))))))
added on the 2009-07-11 19:13:46 by evilpaul evilpaul
Teleportation would be just awesome if it was legal.
added on the 2009-07-11 19:37:03 by xernobyl xernobyl
Boss night even if the manager did jaff things up things some what!
added on the 2009-07-12 01:09:18 by 71M 71M
apparently nullsleep got into a fight?
added on the 2009-07-12 05:37:02 by phoenix phoenix
it was gud
phonenix - yup, a bad business involving him, me, my girlfriend and her friend, minusbaby and Damon from Starscream. Oh, and a gang of London thugs, which increased in size as they crawled out of the woodwork - older brothers, cousins; all feral street scum.

Exchanged some blows, poor Damon got some punches to the head (he's 16, harmless and really didn't deserve it), but we all narrowly escaped a knifing and managed to get to somewhere very public before getting totally overrun. Threats of 'blasting', but they didn't look like gun types - besides, guns attract the police while knives are silent. They eventually stopped following us, presumably heading off to rob/rape/threaten other innocents.

Btw, as anyone who's used to this attitude will know (it's prevalent in the UK and ran exactly like clockwork; like I expected), there's no way out except to get to a public place. Talking won't help - you can never say the right thing, keeping silent doesn't work ("you ignoring me?") and dragging fighting people apart makes things worse, as you're basically denying them their 'right' to settle things with more violence. Plus, the girls are MUCH worse - this gang had two girlfriends with them, whose role was to give my girlfriend and our other female friend loads of hassle. They're generally more violent and even less susceptible to reason/apology-for-imaginary-offence/etc, and my gf's luck she got away without being stabbed too.

Now I'm back in Newcastle, where men are men, things are settled with fists instead of knives, and people's friends restrain them from having huge fights instead of encouraging them over bullshit concepts of 'honour'. It won't be long before it's like London, though...
added on the 2009-07-12 21:04:32 by syphus syphus

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