Lightning strikes twice in Oxford

after an uneventful weekend start, with much mock grading at karate, everything picked up today with the Men Women and Children giggity goodness. The day started with just some floating around until about four odd, when we went to pick up Ellis and.. be driven to Oxford.

The weather was miserable, and when we arrived near the Zodiac we were booted out of the car to fend for ourselves against the elements until the gig started at about half seven. After much initial confusion, we met up with teh dave, who is oxford-ing for interviews till tuesday (and taking a day off on wednesday, like the big ghey that he is). This was followed by further confusion as we attempted to locate the epitome of capitalist civilization in the form of those big shiny golden arches we all know and in some cases, love.

A macdonalds was found, and it became a source of much glee. I think a new term ending in -gasm was coined to describe the situation, but I digress.

the time between then and the gig was spent variously to-ing and fro-ing up and down oxford high street, finding out if dave could come to the gig, looking for a pub that would let us in for a non-alcoholic drink, before settling on a cafe/bar that was decorated with an interesting orange theme.

the gig itself was quite varied.. the first "band" played "music" which was purely atonal noise with no rythme and mangled screeching sounds. Having broken everyone's ears, the second support act "Kill The Arcade" came on, and managed to not be ompletely terrible. They also didn't have a guy in a bear suit molesting people, and were ACTUALLY playing their instruments (we knew this because they kept stopping due to instrument fuck-ups)

Men Women and Children were, in a word: Fan-Fucking-Tastic. they played most of their songs, and were just great in general. I even got some shiny badges at the end of the gig!

want to say more but am being kicked off, so maybe tomorrow.

As it's me though, probably not.