Weekend Rundowns

Barbie

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Get a call at 4.45pm on Friday offering me 4 month freelance work @ a marketing agency in Kensington and the best news is they want me to start Tuesday meaning any half hearted plans to be semi-civilised this weekend went straight out the window :lol: Had a few wines to celebrate waiting for Nancy (who some of you will know as the lovely Belle) to arrive in FLT, picked her and her friend up at station and hit the rose big-time :lol: Soooo fab to see Nancy, we always see each other in Ibiza but this was the first time I'd met her on home territory so much excitement was had :D After numerous bottles of wine Nancy and her friend Antoine were trying to convince me to go to The End with them but I was adamant that I couldn't cos I had hairdressing appointment on Saturday morning and my 'fro was badly in need of taming 8O Nancy then informs me that her friend is one of the top hairdressers in Holland and before I know it I am sat on the patio chairs with a towel round me letting a complete stranger cut off all my hair with a pair of blunt kitchen scissors 8O :lol: So I had no excuse not to go out then so the next thing we're all in a taxi to The End, got there at 2.30am and there is still massive queue :roll: so we jump in another taxi and go to The Cross. Err The Cross is quite hazy but lots of fun was had (still lots of stupid people just wandering around, dance ffs you're in a club :roll: :lol: ), eventually get kicked out at 6am and have the brainwave :roll: of going to AM :lol: Get there and another massive queue (and for some reason I had gone out without a coat :? ) so after waiting for a bit in sub zero temperatures me and Nancy jumped in another taxi and headed home to hit the rose. Must have passed out at some point and after a couple of hours kip woke up feeling VERY wrong (and wondering where all my hair has gone :lol: )

Only option was to get back on the wine so we headed to Notting Hill and met up with Ferd for a few spritzers and fish, chips and mushies and then had a little siesta before the main event. A few bottles of champagne and we book at taxi for 11pm and then I get a call from Jamie (as in Jamie 'there's no way I'm going clubbing this weekend' :lol: ) who is en route to Ministry too :lol:

Got to Ministry and get given birthday badges, party poppers etc to celebrate their birthday and go to hang up our coats, OMG I have never ever seen a cloakroom queue like it (and Ministry is normally one of the best organised clubs in London Town) - for those of you that know Ministry the queue was from the cloakroom all the way to the Baby Box 8O So there's no way we're going to queue for an hour so after a few spritzers upstairs in VIP we head into the Box hiding our jackets under the podium :lol: Mark Knight played first who was excellent, Deep Dish were meant to be coming on at 2 but at 2 Marc Hughes comes on the decks for an hour. Finally at 3 Deep Dish come on but half of them seem to be missing :? Dubfire is up there but where is Sharam :? We found out later that after playing Godskitchen Sharam was so funked and went to a party in his hotel and him and Dubfire had a ruck and Dubfire came on his own :lol: Sharam eventually turned up at 5 and played til 9. Deep Dish were fab, so many exploding moment and fab to see all the usual faces :D

As the night is coming to an end Jamie tries to get us to go back to his, well I was up for it but I knew Tom was trying to be semi-grown up these days with his new job so thought he would want to go home, well all Jamie has to do is mention the magic k_______ word and Tom can't get to Jamies quick enough :lol:

The next few hours are complete carnage, poor Nancy had to go and get a plane back to Holland (altho I think in hindsight she was probably glad to escape from us :lol: ) while we carried on destroying ourselves. When your supposedly sensible Keeper is laid on the floor hugging a toilet you realise it can't get any worse than this :lol: Finally get taxi home at 8pm Sunday night with the conclusion that there really is no hope for us whatsoever :lol:
 
I'm truly wondering whose body will give out first - mine or Barbie's :lol:

Friday - Home for work, made some yummy beef stroganoff, then the missus and I were off to Club XIII for Jose Nunez. Now, I liked his Subliminal 4 but his live set was utter crap in comparison to local DJs Miller and Galin, who played before and after. :? I amazed my wife by pounding drinks in rapid succession to the point that I spent some insane amount of money and have no recollection how 8O After XIII it was off to after hours club Mix where we ran into all kinds of random people including Alex Patterson (the Orb) who was playing in town the next night. Lots of chatting and great tech-house sounds took us into the morning. No idea when we went home.

Saturday - woke up mid-afternoon feeling very very bad :? Ordered pizza delivery, which seemed to clear that problem right up :D Got back on the beer and headed out around 12ish to Club XIII to wish the owner a happy birthday. Afterwards, I was planning to see Spanish DJ Jerry Ropero at Fabrique but the previous nights shenanigans made me decide instead to attend the Kompact part at club Gaudi. Lots of dirty and techy house going on :D Greats sets from SCSI-9, Tobias Thomas and Le Petite Orb (an Orb side project). Closed out the place in the morning then hit MacDs for some MacBreakfast on the way home :oops:

Sunday - woke up mid-afternoon with no hangover 8) Went to buy a new fan for my computer. Got some groceries. Made a fabulous Chinese dinner (pork dumpling soup, veggie fried rice, sweet & sour pork... mmm :D ). Watched Batman Begins. Tinkered with my computer.
 
Friday Went to Detroit Bar to see Eddie Amador. What a night :D ! Eddie was supposed to keep the dance floor busy, which he did, but my buddy Darwin Paul managed to give him a real run for his money. I did not get to shake my hiney that much as I spent time catching up with friends. Man, I miss Orange County :( . Crashed at my best friend's place at about 3AM.

Saturday 6:45AM. I have not even had 4 hours of sleep and my two little angels come to wake me up by doing body slams on me. As pleasing as it is to have my best friend's kids come and wake me up, 4 hours is not enough; but I guess that's part of the deal. I helped him out with some stuff around the house, took the kids to the petting zoo, and then drove back home where I crashed in the living room. I thought I might go out that night, but I just could not muster the energy :oops: .

Sunday I spent most of the time cleaning up the apartment, my car and researching the web for some DJ Gear. Anyone has any view on CMX 3000?
 
Friday - popped out for a couple of beers. Fast forward to:

Sat - Woke up at 7pm, (around the time I should have been getting ready to head to Stu Hirst's do :oops: ) dazed and confused in The Macbeth in Hoxton. Got home an hour later - no hope of going anywhere :(

Sunday - Beer, beer, beer. Bed at 2.30am

(For the record, the Friday to Saturday gap was filled by wrongness of the highest order at Chicken Knickers @ The Key and Turnmills new Saturday morning afterhours)
 
Buckley said:
Woke up at 7pm, (around the time I should have been getting ready to head to Stu Hirst's do :oops: ) dazed and confused in The Macbeth in Hoxton.
Were there books nearby?
 
Morbyd said:
Buckley said:
Woke up at 7pm, (around the time I should have been getting ready to head to Stu Hirst's do :oops: ) dazed and confused in The Macbeth in Hoxton.
Were there books nearby?

I think the fact that the pub was named after a Shakespeare script was enough to bring on my 'biblio-narcolepsy'. :lol:
 
Buckley said:
Morbyd said:
Buckley said:
Woke up at 7pm, (around the time I should have been getting ready to head to Stu Hirst's do :oops: ) dazed and confused in The Macbeth in Hoxton.
Were there books nearby?

I think the fact that the pub was named after a Shakespeare script was enough to bring on my 'biblio-narcolepsy'. :lol:
On first read, I interpreted that you had woken up with a copy of Macbeth in Hoxton, but the sentence structure clued me in that it was probably a public establishment using the name. I can understand the attraction of such a pub for you, of course. :lol: ;)
 
Friday - Went out for a few drinks after work.
Saturday day got the ball rolling on xmas shopping.
Saturday night - Meet up with Robbie G and Erin. Then went to the dust bar for stu hirst. When we got there we meet the scoobies, kang, and ben, and russ and sarah arrived a bit later. I liked the dust bar, great music, and a perfect start to the evening. Unfourtunately stu didn't come on till 11 and by that stage we had left for ministry. I don't think i've seen minsitry that busy before. Had a really good night, i wasn't that impressed with deep dish this time though but the two mark's who played before we really good. But i had a good night and great to see the usual suspects again.
 
Fri: straight from work to the pub to a party to tom middleton playing at slide here in Oxford (thank god for dress down fridays) who delivered an absolutely amazing set, had a fantastic night. Stayed there til the end of his set at 3

Sat: up late, pottered around the house in a dressing gown until decided it was the right time to head to london. Went for dinner at a friends then drinks in Soho. Had a bit of a dance at freedom and at about 12 caught the tube to ministry. Like barbie shocked by the cloak room queue but we decided to just stand in it and it only took about 25 mins or something :roll: after this pretty much danced right the way through until 9am without too many mishaps. Good plans to go all the way home to oxford straight after except called a friend who mentioned going to later at fire :roll: so headed to his for some more drinks before later opened and then finally rolled out of later at about 3pm, unable to see or walk properly and with a nice journey back to oxford ahead of me...

bed by 6pm, once again the bus driver had to wake me up and tell me to get off the bus :lol:
 
naddyz said:
bed by 6pm, once again the bus driver had to wake me up and tell me to get off the bus :lol:
Buckley is lulled to sleep by the presence of the printed word, and you seem to have a narcoleptic reaction to the monotonous hum of a bus engine :lol:
 
Morbyd said:
naddyz said:
bed by 6pm, once again the bus driver had to wake me up and tell me to get off the bus :lol:
Buckley is lulled to sleep by the presence of the printed word, and you seem to have a narcoleptic reaction to the monotonous hum of a bus engine :lol:

I can ALWAYS fall asleep on a bus, although not in a car :?
 
Fri - Chicken Nickers, great tune selection but some truly painful mixing by Eileen Alien - Johnny Arthur excellent as always. All back to mine for champagne and caviar (ok more like vodka and flat lemonde)

Sat - House party in Wapping, then over to poncey west end bar to meet the current's friends, and then over to ruby lounge to meet up with my buddies and finally across to canvas for formula. Mr Sheridan in highly amusing form and with some really wicked tune selection. Dan from the Cheshire Catz then went b2b with Tim until closing, fabulous stuff :) :)

About to go home but got dragged against my will to the key for formulate where Tim got back on the decks and started his set with '2 months off' - nice!

Sun - finally got home about 10 but the current in no mood to sleep so think I actually passed out about midday. Woke up and it was dark outside. Cooked a bit of food and watched telly until 10 then went back to bed.
 
sat: following the brilliant footie, went to dust to see stu. great to see robo and the robbieG's etc.

great music and a nice venue. dirty house, just how i like it :D

stu hirst, as ever played an absolute blinder.

we were expecting to see mr buckley but, as per, he lightweighted it out due to his inability to hold his davis ;)
 
russ said:
sat: following the brilliant footie, went to dust to see stu. great to see robo and the robbieG's etc.

great music and a nice venue. dirty house, just how i like it :D

stu hirst, as ever played an absolute blinder.

we were expecting to see mr buckley but, as per, he lightweighted it out due to his inability to hold his davis ;)

Can it Rustynuts! (It was actually a 'davis'/horse tranquiliser/beans/weed/beer combo that was my downfall :lol: )
 
Buckley said:
in The Macbeth in Hoxton.

Has The Macbeth reopened?? Do you know if it still does afterhours on a Sunday morning, it opened for a bit on a Sunday morning after the Royal Oak closed RIP and then it shut :?
 
Barbie said:
Buckley said:
in The Macbeth in Hoxton.

Has The Macbeth reopened?? Do you know if it still does afterhours on a Sunday morning, it opened for a bit on a Sunday morning after the Royal Oak closed RIP and then it shut :?

Opened at 4pm Sat but just functioning as a normal boozer. (We were the 10 wrong 'uns waiting outside at opening time :lol: ) Don't know if they do Sundays mornings anymore. I'm guessing not because that Sunday session used to be run by Hans from Eukatech records and he then got involved with Jaded at Egg.
 
Buckley said:
Opened at 4pm Sat but just functioning as a normal boozer. (We were the 10 wrong 'uns waiting outside at opening time :lol: ) Don't know if they do Sundays mornings anymore. I'm guessing not because that Sunday session used to be run by Hans from Eukatech records and he then got involved with Jaded at Egg.

Grrrrr another afterhours place turned into a 'normal' pub :evil:
 
Barbie said:
Buckley said:
Opened at 4pm Sat but just functioning as a normal boozer. (We were the 10 wrong 'uns waiting outside at opening time :lol: ) Don't know if they do Sundays mornings anymore. I'm guessing not because that Sunday session used to be run by Hans from Eukatech records and he then got involved with Jaded at Egg.

Grrrrr another afterhours place turned into a 'normal' pub :evil:

Although The Masque's 'Wrong' now caters for after-afterhours on Sundays.
 
VERY random weekend...

Friday - George & Dragon...aaah. I want to die in there.

Saturday - Dog show at Earls Court 8O :lol: ...Doggies were the only option during these periods of clubbing exile. The husband isn't as crazy about animals as me so he was marched around being told to look at my fave dogs and make all the appropriate 'aaah' noises to keep me happy. :lol:
I particularly liked the howly Basset hound puppies...I nearly stole one to put under my desk.
pm - Walked around Knightsbridge, looked at all the horrid (urgh) overpriced clothes in Harvey Nicks, ate a nice pub lunch and came home to rest my achey loins.
Then sat the poor husband through the X factor (a real insight for me as I've never really watched cr*p Saturday night telly b4...what is the world coming to?) and the Madonna interview on Parky.
Then promptly fell asleep like an old man with glass of wine in hand and had to be carried to bed. :lol:

Sunday - Huge lie in followed by walk down Oxford Street...Went to HMV with a mission to buy the trashiest, most awful dvd we could possibly find. We settled on Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. 8O :lol:
(Highly entertaining viewing but don't for God's sake tell anyone.)

Monday - Knackered having not got to sleep till 2h30...despite an early night. Where's ther justice???

YET AGAIN proof that clubbing detoxes don't make you feel any better at all. Vastly over rated. :roll:

PS - Am I still in trouble?
 
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