In the build up to the summers festivals yesterday we headed off to Newcastle for the Orange Freevolution festival, it was great. While there we notched up seven bands although only five counted to the MySpace gig total (click for more info). Particular highlights have got to be The Sunshine Underground for just being good using other peoples equipment, The Proclaimers for having great songs and getting everyone in a good mood, Graham Coxon for nice glasses and Hard-Fi who made great headliners (sorry Phil your just wrong).
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Hostel
Have just watched ‘Hostel‘ which I think may have been a mistake, certainly not a film to be watching before bed time. Just as well I’m not tired.
Why is it?
Why is it that the only fish I like is cod, so fish and chips is good, and fish finger sandwiches are amazing. I don’t like prawns, so why do I like prawn cocktail crisps?
It's a FACT:
Went to FACT: at Bacchaus last night and got quite drunk (although not as drunk as Phil). It was £6 for a four-pint jug of the finest French ale circa 1664. Genius.
Getting to know me
Thanks to Phil for this one:
(x) Smoked a cigarette
() Drank so much you threw up
(x) Crashed a friend’s car – No but I crashed my own.
() Stolen a car
() Been in love
(x) Been dumped
() Shoplifted
() Been laid off/fired
() Quit your job
() Been in a fist fight
() Snuck out of your parent’s house
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
() Been arrested
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Why I'm never getting married!
No one is getting their hands on my millions.
Tuesday joke
A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he’s drinking, the monkey starts jumping all over the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them, then grabs some sliced limes and eats them,then jumps up on the pool table, grabs the cue ball, sticks it in his mouth and swallows it whole.
The bartender screams at the guy, “Did you see what your monkey just did?” The guy says, “No, what?” “He just ate the cue ball off my pool table – whole!” says the bartender. “Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me,” replies the patron. “He eats everything in sight, the little twerp. I’ll pay for the cue ball and stuff.” He finishes his drink, pays his bill, and leaves. Two weeks later he’s in the bar again, and he has his monkey with him. He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again.
While the man is drinking, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. The bartender is disgusted. “Did you see what your monkey did now?” “Now what?” asks the patron. “Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry up his butt, then pulled it out and ate it!” says the barkeeper.
“Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me,” replies the patron. “He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he ate that damn cue ball he measures everything first!”
Great Day
So its been a busy day today, and I’m knackered. It was a five thirty start to be ready to leave my house at 6.30am for the trip to Manchester. It was quite bizarre to see that the weather was looking quite promising, but as I suspected the closer we got to Manchester the worse the weather was getting. Still at 8.30am when we arrived there the skies were still clear.
We had a little walk about to kill some time since the race didn’t begin till 10am…not much to say about that really. I got into position as close to that start line as possible at around 9.45am and waited around. It started raining. At 10am the race began and I felt good, the course was slightly different to the last time I did it, passing by Old Trafford before the Manchester Ship Canal, which was probably to ease congestion on the narrow path near the canal. In the end I managed a time of 44 minutes and 9 seconds which I’m very pleased with since its 8 minutes faster than the last 10km race I ran.
Killer biscuit

A night in Boro
I was out in Boro last night and had quite possibly the best pizza ever, technically I’ve still got two slices left which I will shortly be eating. Gi-Gi’s has got to go down in my top three pizza shops along with Pizza Uno (Sunderland and Darlington branches), contact details can be found here.
Oh yeah, I was Dirty Pretty Things too, they were excellent.
