The Old Blue Last, London - a question
 

Sunburned Hand of the Man have a date at The Old Blue Last as part of their Euro tour, on 3rd November. I vaguely remember The Old Blue last getting a mild slagging a while back for being a Hoxtonites' paradise. If I went to see SBHOTM there, would I be likely to end up so pissed off at the crowd that it would spoil my enjoyment of the show? I'm thinking particularly about chatterboxes.

I have been to some gigs in there that were full of people from the NME and their ilk, but the bands play upstairs and it is a very tiny venue, so I suppose you would have your assortment of gig goers with the gift of the gab, as well as those who go there exclusively for the music. The Old Blue Last itself isn't that bad a pub, it's just the sort of crowd that you have to put up with because of its location etc. There are friendly people in there too, but yes, it does have a certain reputation.


Edit - If you are there for the band, don't bother about the people who are there to be seen.

I think I'd rather see Sunburned in a pub than in a night-clubby looking place like The Scala, so I'll risk The Old Blue Last.

I think that you might even enjoy the actual pub downstairs, regardless of the scenesters. I have been there with a couple of people who post on here and they seemed like they enjoyed it. The gigs are played upstairs.

i remember when we played there, and c list wannabe celebs like the guitarist from the rakes and har mar superstar came along,

of course they werent impressed with us,

but maybe they couldnt see how great we looked because everyone was wearing scarfs and sunglasses inside,

im so out of touch,

i say go. get drunk and dance like crazy!

yes do exactly that and dont care about anything else.

I don't know about sunburned people, but I had a dream last night that I saw some cheese called "sonicl".

I thought, hmmm so that's where he gets his name.

true story.

i dreamt i was a balck woman driving around a multi story car park last night. true story.

that's HOT.

i was hot i had an afro and a brown leather suitcase.

A black lady stopped her car at the traffic lights yesterday while I was crossing the road and asked me if it was the road that she thought it was. She had a very sweet appearance and as I was about to cross the road we smiled at each other. True story.

did you go by the name Foxy or Cleopatra Jon?

I imagine that you knew KUNG FU as well.



HOT.

no i didnt have a name and i didnt know kung fu, ai just remember i was scared and had to hide from people.

you mean you didn't even have time to self-explore yr sexy new nubian body?

a shame. :(

It would have been super-fake no-touchy Kung Fu anyway.

RACIST.

it's just a stage act involving wires and harnesses. :(

And "Jazz Hands," naturally.

HOMOPHOBE.

I own several Coil albums, so there.

Coil weren't gay, that was all just an act.

I mean, they did all the gay stuff, like making whoopie with other men and enjoying it, but they weren't actually gay.

Wow. Way to commit to image!

Yeah. Some people just wear capes and stuff.

Have you ever considered being flown onto stage on the back of a giant swan?

That's how I get to work every day.

Cool!

It gets boring after a while.

Have you ever suffered a hijacking en route?

No, but sometimes the swan takes a detour and them I'm late for work.
He's got to learn to control himself.

you do know that you were supposed to return the float AFTER you were crowned Corn Princess, right?


PS: nice tits Clone.

When I said "takes a detour," I meant that I have to wait outside in the motel parking lot!
Yeesh!

Good Lord, Clone... I'm at work you know.

(But I have made a mental note to return to this page later)

no need to lie.

we're all friends here.

What? What?
It's art, man!
ART!

can we stop all this bickering and get back to my dream please.

does it not worry anyone (it does me) that i dreamt i was a black woman?

What were you wearing when you were a black woman?

it's not anymore to worry about than sonicl being a block of cheese. although, to be honest, at least sonicl was fancy cheese. you, on the other hand, did not even know KUNG FU. for shame.

I'm taking bets you'll be on hormones inside of six months after a period of obsessive reflection on this dream.
Hormones can't make you black of course, but they can do wonders for the other part.

brown.