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London Awsomeness :)
Jun. 14th, 2009 01:26 amSo totally on the spur of the moment I ended up deciding to go to London with Kev on Thursday (by spur of the moment I mean he asked me to go with him to see Lacuna Coil, I felt like a gold digger because he'd be paying for everything because I have no money and said no, so he kept asking until I gave in and said yes lol).
Scared someone on the train on the way down (can't tell weather it was the public displays of affection, or the various conversations about death etc that freaked her out but as soon as the woman sitting next to her got off the train she and her laptop escaped to the nearest empty seat with a plug socket! Kev accidently deleted the internet and had to system restore his laptop and I realised that tassley (is that a word?) belts are never a good idea on trains...People stand on them!
For three hours on a train with the most uncomfortable seats ever it wasn't a bad journey actually, must have been the company :)
Got to Kings Cross and managed to get out of the station pretty quickly, never passed platforms 9 and 10 though so I missed out on watching small children running into walls!
SUDDENLY! Out came the street map! I thought guys were terrible with directions? Not this one :)
Seriously though we walked up the weirdest road in the world! It started down next to Kings Cross and it was all Londony (you know, major city kinda look), turned into an industrial estate, became an alrightish looking area not to different from where I live, then became a scary youisgunnagetraypedesqe place, before becoming nice again, then becoming all awsome and terracy.
The b+b was really nice from the outside (to be fair it was ok inside to, I have stayed in way way worse...Epping Forest Youth Hostel for a start!), took aaaaaages to check in though, took the desk guy forever to find our reservations, I totally sighed a big sigh of relief when he finally found it!
Our room was in the basement (oh how Goth!), it was kinda small, would have been bigger if it wasn't for the random single bed that was squished in at the bottom (I guess it was sometimes a family room), there were windows (yeah a basement with HUGE ASS WINDOWS! WTF?), they had bars, which for some reason we found quite ammusing! Bathroom was tiny, but hey it was en-suite so I wasn't complaining (until I tried to take a shower and flooded the bathroom because the shower needed fixing and the temperature control was a lie, but that's besides the point).
We were gonna pop to the off licence and get some beers for before the gig but by the time we got all sorted and setled in (*ahem*), there were only a couple of hours to go and since the tube was on strike and the London bus service is kinda weird (you have to buy your ticket before you get on the bus, only it's not like in Estonia, where you buy them from isn't clearly advertised everywehre) so we just walked to Camden instead :)
Camden Barfly is awsome! We had a drink each in there first then went to Cottons Caribean resturaunt a couple of doors up the road for food ( if you're ever in Camden you should totally go eat there, don't be put off by the prices and the service charge it's all totally worth it, sooooo good), I had this Roast Vegetable medley thing with a little tub of jerk sauce and a bowl of rice and peas and it was sooooo good, I was really upset that my tummy got to full to let me finish it it was the nicest thing I've eaten in aaages. I also had the best Pina Colada I've ever ever had too! It had actual fresh pinapple in it rather than the tinned crap you get in bars, I'm actually drooling thinking about how good it was! Kev had curried goat, it smelled nice, apparently it was nice...I'll take his word for it lol
After that we went back to the Barfly and waited in the que (I can never spell that word...FAIL) that was forming outside, got talking to guy from Coloumbia (we didn't really understand much of what he was saying, he kept slipping back into Spainish, and I only have a very brief grasp of Spainish, though it's probably more than most British tourists know if the media are to be believed), what I understood was pretty interesting. He then wandered off and we ressumed our waiting...And waiting...And more waiting. Doors were supposed to open at 7, we didn't get in until nearly 9. This was never explained and it was really annoying.
When we did finally get in, we got another drink each, I had possibly the most amazing rum and coke in the history or rum and coke because the bottle FELL OFF THE WALL, so I got what tasted like a tripple for the price of a single...Om nom nom!
Didn't think much of the support band (My Passion) at all. They were (in my opinion), total rip offs of Mindless Self Indulgence, and I don't really think much of Mindless Self Indulgence to start with. All their songs sounded the same, they had those terrible "If we look like this people will love us reguardless of our lack of talent" haircuts and I spent half of their set thinking their bassist was a woman.
Lacuna Coil totally made up for it though! They were utterly fantastic, and as the barfly only has a 200 people capacity, we were unbelievbly close!
The crowd (feels weird calling 200 people a crowd), were a little on the quiet side though, until quite near the end I think Kev and I were the people making the most movement (and I'm not really a very mov-ey person), yeah I know we'd been waiting outside for nearly two hours but still I wonder if Rikki from Uberbyte was right about people from certain places getting bored of bands handing themselves to them on a silver platter all the time?
Nevertheless they were awsome, and I had a great time :)
We did end up going to an off licence on the way back, bought four cans of larger and had two each (one on the way back, one in the hotel room), I actually suprised myself by not being drunk. Tipsy yes, but not drunk lol. I did make a huuuuuge noise when we got back to the b+b because I tripped on a step that I forgot was there and did the "I am supprised and falling" noise (you ever seen that episode of the Vicar of Dibley where she finds out that the guy she marries in the last one isn't cheating on her and the mysterious woman is his sister, then he proposes to Geraldine? It's similar to the noise she makes).
I kept waking up through the night and totally forgetting about the flooded bathroom and ending up with wet feet...FML lol.
So breakfast was fun and interesing lol, I fashioned my own beans on toast from the one bit of the breakfast I could eat (a dish of beans), and the complementry toast (note for the future, I need to forewarn places of my veganess lol), awsome pot of tea though *drool*
Theeen we went off back to Kings Cross to get the train home...Still never passed platforms 9 and 10...Boo!
The train ride home was an adventure in itself, we ended up in the quiet coach! We deffinatly disturbed a few people with public displays of affection this time hehe! We got to York and then had to change trains because of a signal error somewhere.
We ended up in another quiet coach lol.
All in all I had a fabulous time, and I'm glad he convinced me to go with him :D
Scared someone on the train on the way down (can't tell weather it was the public displays of affection, or the various conversations about death etc that freaked her out but as soon as the woman sitting next to her got off the train she and her laptop escaped to the nearest empty seat with a plug socket! Kev accidently deleted the internet and had to system restore his laptop and I realised that tassley (is that a word?) belts are never a good idea on trains...People stand on them!
For three hours on a train with the most uncomfortable seats ever it wasn't a bad journey actually, must have been the company :)
Got to Kings Cross and managed to get out of the station pretty quickly, never passed platforms 9 and 10 though so I missed out on watching small children running into walls!
SUDDENLY! Out came the street map! I thought guys were terrible with directions? Not this one :)
Seriously though we walked up the weirdest road in the world! It started down next to Kings Cross and it was all Londony (you know, major city kinda look), turned into an industrial estate, became an alrightish looking area not to different from where I live, then became a scary youisgunnagetraypedesqe place, before becoming nice again, then becoming all awsome and terracy.
The b+b was really nice from the outside (to be fair it was ok inside to, I have stayed in way way worse...Epping Forest Youth Hostel for a start!), took aaaaaages to check in though, took the desk guy forever to find our reservations, I totally sighed a big sigh of relief when he finally found it!
Our room was in the basement (oh how Goth!), it was kinda small, would have been bigger if it wasn't for the random single bed that was squished in at the bottom (I guess it was sometimes a family room), there were windows (yeah a basement with HUGE ASS WINDOWS! WTF?), they had bars, which for some reason we found quite ammusing! Bathroom was tiny, but hey it was en-suite so I wasn't complaining (until I tried to take a shower and flooded the bathroom because the shower needed fixing and the temperature control was a lie, but that's besides the point).
We were gonna pop to the off licence and get some beers for before the gig but by the time we got all sorted and setled in (*ahem*), there were only a couple of hours to go and since the tube was on strike and the London bus service is kinda weird (you have to buy your ticket before you get on the bus, only it's not like in Estonia, where you buy them from isn't clearly advertised everywehre) so we just walked to Camden instead :)
Camden Barfly is awsome! We had a drink each in there first then went to Cottons Caribean resturaunt a couple of doors up the road for food ( if you're ever in Camden you should totally go eat there, don't be put off by the prices and the service charge it's all totally worth it, sooooo good), I had this Roast Vegetable medley thing with a little tub of jerk sauce and a bowl of rice and peas and it was sooooo good, I was really upset that my tummy got to full to let me finish it it was the nicest thing I've eaten in aaages. I also had the best Pina Colada I've ever ever had too! It had actual fresh pinapple in it rather than the tinned crap you get in bars, I'm actually drooling thinking about how good it was! Kev had curried goat, it smelled nice, apparently it was nice...I'll take his word for it lol
After that we went back to the Barfly and waited in the que (I can never spell that word...FAIL) that was forming outside, got talking to guy from Coloumbia (we didn't really understand much of what he was saying, he kept slipping back into Spainish, and I only have a very brief grasp of Spainish, though it's probably more than most British tourists know if the media are to be believed), what I understood was pretty interesting. He then wandered off and we ressumed our waiting...And waiting...And more waiting. Doors were supposed to open at 7, we didn't get in until nearly 9. This was never explained and it was really annoying.
When we did finally get in, we got another drink each, I had possibly the most amazing rum and coke in the history or rum and coke because the bottle FELL OFF THE WALL, so I got what tasted like a tripple for the price of a single...Om nom nom!
Didn't think much of the support band (My Passion) at all. They were (in my opinion), total rip offs of Mindless Self Indulgence, and I don't really think much of Mindless Self Indulgence to start with. All their songs sounded the same, they had those terrible "If we look like this people will love us reguardless of our lack of talent" haircuts and I spent half of their set thinking their bassist was a woman.
Lacuna Coil totally made up for it though! They were utterly fantastic, and as the barfly only has a 200 people capacity, we were unbelievbly close!
The crowd (feels weird calling 200 people a crowd), were a little on the quiet side though, until quite near the end I think Kev and I were the people making the most movement (and I'm not really a very mov-ey person), yeah I know we'd been waiting outside for nearly two hours but still I wonder if Rikki from Uberbyte was right about people from certain places getting bored of bands handing themselves to them on a silver platter all the time?
Nevertheless they were awsome, and I had a great time :)
We did end up going to an off licence on the way back, bought four cans of larger and had two each (one on the way back, one in the hotel room), I actually suprised myself by not being drunk. Tipsy yes, but not drunk lol. I did make a huuuuuge noise when we got back to the b+b because I tripped on a step that I forgot was there and did the "I am supprised and falling" noise (you ever seen that episode of the Vicar of Dibley where she finds out that the guy she marries in the last one isn't cheating on her and the mysterious woman is his sister, then he proposes to Geraldine? It's similar to the noise she makes).
I kept waking up through the night and totally forgetting about the flooded bathroom and ending up with wet feet...FML lol.
So breakfast was fun and interesing lol, I fashioned my own beans on toast from the one bit of the breakfast I could eat (a dish of beans), and the complementry toast (note for the future, I need to forewarn places of my veganess lol), awsome pot of tea though *drool*
Theeen we went off back to Kings Cross to get the train home...Still never passed platforms 9 and 10...Boo!
The train ride home was an adventure in itself, we ended up in the quiet coach! We deffinatly disturbed a few people with public displays of affection this time hehe! We got to York and then had to change trains because of a signal error somewhere.
We ended up in another quiet coach lol.
All in all I had a fabulous time, and I'm glad he convinced me to go with him :D
