top night

Fri went to the Postal Note, Crystal Palace then a crawl in Kingston. The Canbury Arms were up their arse so onto Willoughby Arms. It's a well marked pub trail. I like the Park Tavern in New Road; the punters and staff. I had Batemans. After the Richmond Arms ate at Deea Bangladeshi cuisine. The tandoori salmon and duck curry were treasures; washed down with draught Kingfisher. Dodge caught up with us. Went to Dogstar for the White Lies gig afterparty; we winged the entry. You get your chancers in there; 'can i have your coat?' 'na i'm using it' i reply.

Sat saw final score at the King's Tun, Kingston with a pint of Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd style. Some trucker there looked at me and made disparaging remarks to his equally posh friend. Went to Camden; was going to have Thai veg buffet but plumped for Vietnamese pho..the taste of mint reminded me of Ho Chi Minh city. The meeting place Worlds End was 2 seconds away and when Dodge said he was in there i paid up and scooted over. World's End..Touristtrap or great starting off point? A wee bit loud music; i had Newcastle Brown no glass student/ tart style. Met interesting characters in there; rock, metal theme. I was persuaded to throw a paper plane at some people. Security directed me to the dining area so that i could hear the mobile phone convo whilst annoying the punters there.

Then to Inspiralled. I met Don Letts; told him that i'd previously seen him at Big Chill. Sat was an outstanding night. The atmosphere, personnel there. I was given the directive to dance by the promoter and i was happy to warm up the crowd. You can have vege food and organic lagers on a Sat night out. Met Paathan. We were going to stay till 11.30pm but so good was it there that we left a little after 1.30am. Our night was not finished; we were going to drop in at a warehouse party in Limehouse, to see a dj friend on the decks for his birthday set. There was an upstairs loft where you could look down at the dj's. A peace vodka passed around got people further on their way. We started a limbo contest. The whole vibe was friendly and unantagonistic; you could feel it in the air. We danced till just after 7.45am; i'd gone out to the balcony to see the sunrise over Docklands. In the party ppl were hula hooping, sitting on swings; i bongoed. It was wonderful to be there. My dj mate was buzzing and enthusing about it Sun night.

Outside there was a convoy of sports cars going down the a13. They played it up to us. We needed food; in the absence of nearby greasy spoons we went to the ever reliable Balans in Soho on the 15 bus. We had one of the ravers join us. Eggs florentine and bloody marys strong enough to put hairs on your chest. Our new friend did a burp that made our waiter come back and say 'who did that? It was impressive'. We wanted one for the road but couldn't find anywhere open. I slept for a large part of the day from midday; i'll do Bethnal Green next Sun along with Dalston. Heard about Spurs' 9-1; 9 goals in the second half, like one every 5 mins. And the 9th goal wasn't deflected or a tap in; it was a Krancjar cracker. Eng had a fine win over S.A in the cricket.
The standards have been set. Hopefully a house party on Sat will be a right good un.