2022 - the year of the dan: chapter 14
Chapter 14
The day after, Roadtrip Number Two. Airtrip in fact. LCD Soundsystem in Brixton Academy.
Iconic venue. Iconic band. Iconic neighbourhood.
Me & P meet on the high street and repair to the Ritzy Cinema bar as the hellish sun breaks through. Several hours beers and most excellent catch ups later the gig felt strangely like an afterthought. The heat in the venue was also nothing short of dangerous. (And I’ve lost half a stone at a Pet Shop Boys gig.) I genuinely wasn’t sure if I would walk out of there or have to be carried. The band was a distant soundtrack to a wonderful day and credit to James and the gang for that.
My favourite moment of the gig was the random stranger arriving from behind but discovering we were not actually the friends he had bought the pints for. So he handed them over to us. Then he heard my accent and said he was from Cork too and did he know me from The Pav or maybe Henry’s. We all agreed the world needs more of that kind of thing and the band played the punk funk.
The day after, Roadtrip Number Two. Airtrip in fact. LCD Soundsystem in Brixton Academy.
Iconic venue. Iconic band. Iconic neighbourhood.
Me & P meet on the high street and repair to the Ritzy Cinema bar as the hellish sun breaks through. Several hours beers and most excellent catch ups later the gig felt strangely like an afterthought. The heat in the venue was also nothing short of dangerous. (And I’ve lost half a stone at a Pet Shop Boys gig.) I genuinely wasn’t sure if I would walk out of there or have to be carried. The band was a distant soundtrack to a wonderful day and credit to James and the gang for that.
My favourite moment of the gig was the random stranger arriving from behind but discovering we were not actually the friends he had bought the pints for. So he handed them over to us. Then he heard my accent and said he was from Cork too and did he know me from The Pav or maybe Henry’s. We all agreed the world needs more of that kind of thing and the band played the punk funk.
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