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Feb. 12th, 2008 09:52 amLast Thursday was the Dark Tranquillity gig at Rock City. I'd certainly looked forward to it, but two factors made me approach it with less enthusiasm than I might have previously. The first was that it would be the third time I'd see them in barely half a year - quite a far cry from the days when I wondered if they'd ever play in this country, never mind in my local club. The second was that, knowing what Dark Tranquillity are like live, they wouldn't impress me as much as Primordial did the week before. It was pretty much as I expected - a great and crowd-pleasing performance, but not one that seized my attention at that time. It's interesting to see just how many people at that gig heard about the band through me, too. Obviously many would have got into the band through other means by now, but it's still interesting. I also ran into another guy in a Primordial t-shirt, who was at the gig the previous Saturday, and he said he had photos and a review up on Some Website. I tried to remember the address of this Some Website but have now forgotten. Oh well.
After the gig most of us moved into the adjacent room for Damage Inc. The venue had just been refurbished, where refurbished appeared to me to mean 'painted red, and with the toilet doors no longer closing'. There were a couple of good songs played, balanced out by a few morons wandering in from the student night next door and getting in the way for a 'laugh'. I really wasn't in the mood for being out and 'clubbing' though - am I ever? - and after 20 minutes of standing around feeling a bit irritated I stomped off home early.
On Friday night I had no idea who was going out, but I did get told of who wasn't going out, so I stayed in and played Splinter Cell again.
On Saturday I did some pointless shopping during the day, dropped by the White Hart briefly with Hannah in the evening, and ended up being about the only person I know who didn't go to Rock City that night.
Sunday was mainly lazing around and cleaning.
Monday was mostly just work, and hearing how we're going to overcome otherwise fatal flaws in the game's design. The evening saw me writing tablature for my amazingly-named piece 'Track 9' for guitar/bass/drums, then more Splinter Cell, infiltrating a North Korean military base now after finishing a Japanese mission the other day.
More work today. WHAT A THRILLING LIFE. This week will see me finishing off the Track 9 tab, working out what formulae I need to use for the web game I've been neglecting since late last year, going out for a Not-Valentine's drink with Jen, and... no, that's all.
After the gig most of us moved into the adjacent room for Damage Inc. The venue had just been refurbished, where refurbished appeared to me to mean 'painted red, and with the toilet doors no longer closing'. There were a couple of good songs played, balanced out by a few morons wandering in from the student night next door and getting in the way for a 'laugh'. I really wasn't in the mood for being out and 'clubbing' though - am I ever? - and after 20 minutes of standing around feeling a bit irritated I stomped off home early.
On Friday night I had no idea who was going out, but I did get told of who wasn't going out, so I stayed in and played Splinter Cell again.
On Saturday I did some pointless shopping during the day, dropped by the White Hart briefly with Hannah in the evening, and ended up being about the only person I know who didn't go to Rock City that night.
Sunday was mainly lazing around and cleaning.
Monday was mostly just work, and hearing how we're going to overcome otherwise fatal flaws in the game's design. The evening saw me writing tablature for my amazingly-named piece 'Track 9' for guitar/bass/drums, then more Splinter Cell, infiltrating a North Korean military base now after finishing a Japanese mission the other day.
More work today. WHAT A THRILLING LIFE. This week will see me finishing off the Track 9 tab, working out what formulae I need to use for the web game I've been neglecting since late last year, going out for a Not-Valentine's drink with Jen, and... no, that's all.
