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Agalloch, etc
Mar. 29th, 2009 11:29 pmOn Thursday I ventured down to London to see Agalloch, Dornenreich, Mely, and Fen play. If you've not heard of any of them that's not terribly surprising as they are a little bit underground, but that made it even more impressive that the gig was so well attended, the queue stretching right round the block. It's interesting how small the scene is - I found myself in the queue behind two Australian girls who were comparing the slowness of the queue to the one at the Paradise Lost/Anathema/My Dying Bride gig last year that meant lots of people missed Anathema, and which I was at (along with with several of you). This queue took something like 45 minutes to let everybody in and it was for this reason that I didn't catch Fen's set, but Mely were ok, Dornenreich were intriguing and Agalloch were excellent. I picked up a long-wanted Agalloch t-shirt (although they had none of their full-length albums on sale, unfortunately).
It was my first time navigating the capital without assistance too so it was encouraging that I didn't miss my train or get lost. I figured that it would be a bit lame to miss rare opportunities to see bands that hardly come to the UK on account of not having anybody to travel with, so doing that was a useful experience. Just a shame that trains stop running so early as that precludes going to a lot of other stuff.
Anyway, it's good that I enjoyed the Agalloch gig as the the weekend was pretty much written off socially due to people becoming unavailable on Friday (seeing someone else), Saturday (called into work), and Sunday ('female' illness). LAME. Instead I stayed in and wrote some black metal, and completed Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which is quite an average game with poorly explained continuity between levels, some very unforgiving situations, and a very anti-climactic ending. Next, I should probably complete Oblivion before I have owned it for 3 years. Or maybe finish off Thief 3, although that involves going back into Shalebridge Cradle - ouch.
Tomorrow is work as usual, although if our admin girl gets back to me and insists that I need to take my 2 holidays before the end of March, I may well be walking right back out again, as there are only 2 days of March remaining. We'll see!
It was my first time navigating the capital without assistance too so it was encouraging that I didn't miss my train or get lost. I figured that it would be a bit lame to miss rare opportunities to see bands that hardly come to the UK on account of not having anybody to travel with, so doing that was a useful experience. Just a shame that trains stop running so early as that precludes going to a lot of other stuff.
Anyway, it's good that I enjoyed the Agalloch gig as the the weekend was pretty much written off socially due to people becoming unavailable on Friday (seeing someone else), Saturday (called into work), and Sunday ('female' illness). LAME. Instead I stayed in and wrote some black metal, and completed Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which is quite an average game with poorly explained continuity between levels, some very unforgiving situations, and a very anti-climactic ending. Next, I should probably complete Oblivion before I have owned it for 3 years. Or maybe finish off Thief 3, although that involves going back into Shalebridge Cradle - ouch.
Tomorrow is work as usual, although if our admin girl gets back to me and insists that I need to take my 2 holidays before the end of March, I may well be walking right back out again, as there are only 2 days of March remaining. We'll see!
