Started out at Sandy’s for a quick beer and that. Met her mate Mark. Then off to Academy for The Sword with Black Cobra supporting.

Brilliant gig. Full on loud, hard, fast and heavy as fuck. Guitar heaven.

Had to start our own pit….not an uncommon occurence. Plenty of air guitar on show. Surprisingly only one bruise all night, and that was Sandy’s eye within The Sword’s first tune. Got split up at one point and each ended up going to the bar for beers seperatly and got the others a drink. So spent half an hour trying to rock out whilst holding 2 beers – until some monkey knocked one of Sandy’s flying so we shared my last one.

Off to Big Hands where Sandy got us in for free 🙂

Met a Canadian who had been to see Kris Kristofferson at the Apollo. Chatted to him for quite a while but no idea what the hell we were talking about. And he took photos of us holding the vinyl from the gig cos he loved the fact that we covetid it so much.

Headed off back to Sandy’s in a cab. All 3 of us talking a hundred miles per hour about how good the gig was. Totally trollied at this point.

Couldn’t open the front door, in a scene reminiscent of The Marx Brothers or something with us all trying to talk at once whilst shushing each other cos it was late and laughing like lunatics. Managed to bend the key and had to phone Debbie, her neighbour from downstairs, to come and let us in…oops.

Quick beer and smoke to some tunes and Atomic Rooster on the big screen before stumbling off into the night to find my way home. Which I managed to do with only falling into a hedge once.

It were a reet good day.