Ein tausend Elefanten brechen aus

[venta]

So, another Spring, another Whitby Goth Weekend...

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[bateleur]

Very impressed by the elephants! :-D

Am I imagining it, or did you not really hear any particularly good bands at all this time?

[venta]

Not hearing any particularly good bands is pretty much standard for Whitby (in my opinion ;)

However: 3/4 on Friday were good, and 1.5/4 on Saturday - that's not a bad hit rate. I obviously am just having a negative-sounding morning!

[bateleur]

Or I just lack context, which seems more likely. :-)

I'm very grumpy about my free time. If I spend more than a day doing something it had better be nothing short of excellent, or I will make this face :-| or, if the situation calls for it, this face :-( in response.

[venta]

To be honest, the bands are something of an optional extra. I go to Whitby primarily to have a nice weekend away with Davefish and Keris, and to catch up with a bunch of people I don't see anywhere else. And I eat a lot of nice food, and do a bit of light shopping, and hang about on cliffs being windswept a bit and staring out to sea.

If I were going just for the bands I'd have definitely packed in long ago :)

[lathany]

The elephants are awesome!

(OK the bands are impressive too...)

[venta]

The elephants were certainly more unexpected!

[venta]

Yes, I've considered it a few times - the trouble is, there's only so many weekends away I can fit in/afford :) Certainly the bands at DV8 always look way better. I'm especially tempted this year, because I want to go and see all six A4s [*] gathered in York, and that's at the same time.

[*] read as "steam train geekery" if you didn't get that bit :)

[ceb]

I also like DV8, and would greatly recommend. Chris Hamsterboy is excellent at booking interesting bands you (well I) haven't heard of yet.

[zotz]

I saw Mons Meg today. I was impressed, partly by the dancing and partly by them still having most of their fingers - as, if I remember rightly from the last time we met, do you, so you may count yourself impressive also.

[venta]

I am still reasonably decidigital. Grazed knuckles and bruised wrists are the biggest risks :)

I'm glad you liked them, though. I love dancing (and watching) rapper, so it's lovely to hear that it's appealing to other people as well.

[exspelunca]

Catching up belatedly, I thought you, too, were a steam loco freak until I realised Mons Meg had long gone to the great scrapyard in the sky - then I saw the word "dancing". Yes, they are good.

[satyrica]

Oddly, i feel like i saw *someone* and the Dirty Johnsons as a support somewhere recently but neither remember where nor that it was Pussycat . . .

[venta]

This Pussycat was fairly obviously feline, with a PVC tail and hair brushed up into cat-ears. See Davefish's Whitby pics for details!

[satyrica]

yeah, pretty sure I would have remembered her . . .