I went to the Last Of The Summer festival at the Carling Academy yesterday with Jim. I had a really nice time, though we were there for hours (from like 2.30pm to 11.30pm ish)

I've missed Jim loads. Him, Mog, Mat and Ben have been in Australia for a month, visiting Dave.

On wednesday we're going to see Slow Club at The Harley. Yays.

I went to ATP Curated by Explosions In The Sky with Damian this weekend just gone and had mostly a lovely time.

From what I remember, we saw.. A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Adem, Beach House, Broken Social Scene, De La Soul, Iron And Wine, Okkervil River, Ola Podrida, Phosphorescent, Silver Jews, Stars Of The Lid, Sunset Rubdown, and The National. ( Read more... )

On friday I went to The Norton with Heather (and briefly Mog,Jim and Ben). We had quite a nice night, and talked about lots of things.

On saturday, I bought a few things from charity shops:

A 1950/60s souvernier doll in the local costume from Italy (50p)

An amusing novelty plate about scottish people. It's pretty lame, but I couldn't resist (99p ( Read more... )

Went to see Monkey Swallows The Universe tonight with Jim. They were really really good, and I enjoyed the gig a lot. We ran into Dan (Beret Man) who I haven't seen for months and months, I've missed him..he says he is coming to the next Offbeat though, so yay!

The bus home took bloody hours. The 53 is officially the slowest bus route evar.

My birthday weekend was nice. On the thursday afternoon, I got the train to Middlesbrough. At Derby station I saw one of the experts from Flog It!, Anita Manning

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