Seabound + Museum + Guildford

My Top 3

This weekend has been a travel disaster. I missed both of my pre-booked advance trains and had to buy a new ticket. The second missed train wasn’t exactly my fault so I got my ticket stamped so I could get onto the next one home.

I didn’t get to see the Terra Cotta Soldiers at the British Museum with The Other Gem. All of the tickets they release on the day had gone by the time we arrived, just like all the ones available in advance had gone before I knew I was in London that day. So we just had a wander around the Africa and North America rooms and all the random things in the Enlightenment rooms, such as my personal favourite; a faked taxidermied mermaid made from half a monkey and half a fish.

Then the evening was alarmingly ‘goth’. It was spent first in The Devonshire Arms in Camden with Patrick, Sel and Sarah and then Slimelight for the Seabound gig with just Patrick and Sel. Sarah escaped on the way there, despite Sel’s best efforts at detaining her.

I love Seabound and I think they did a good gig, but the Slimelight PA is even more of a bag of shite than I remembered from when I was a member and went there quite often. I was planning on renewing my membership to get cheap tickets to some other bands they are putting on but I am not going to bother now. I’ll have to go somewhere in mainland Europe to see The Legendary Pink Dots now because I don’t want another good band to be ruined by a shit PA in my presence.

After than I visited Guildford, Patrick’s new home, for the first time. It is rather different from his previous one in Anglesey. Now that most of my friends live in the south east (apart from the ones in Leeds and elsewhere of course) I am very tempted to try to move down there myself at some point. I’d also rather like to live a short, cheap train ride away from London with the last train home at 1am. His flat has an iPod dock built into the wall connected to the integrated speaker system, it is possibly the most bizarrely cool thing ever.

Another great thing is Guitar Hero, which I attempted to play on Patrick’s Playstation 2. I really need to buy that soon. I need a Nintendo Wii as well, even more so now I’ve played one.