Saturday morning Mrs-MaFt went shopping for girly stuff so me, Mr-JC and Mini-MaFt went to Bradford to look at boys stuff. Mainly CD's and guitars! Mr-JC bought a dead nice Ibanez hollow-body electric guitar and I sold £130 worth of CD's that I no longer listen to. Ever!
Saturday dinner DTN and Scru' arrived from the north(ish)-west and we headed down to Burger King for a healthy lunch. It was a cold day but really sunny and the sky was clear so we headed up to Ogden Waters for a walk around there. The picture below is from May 2002 but as you can imagine it looked pretty similar on Saturday (just a bit colder though - funnily enough temperature doesn't come across well in a photo...)
Ogden Waters
Saturday tea-time we all headed down to The Village in Thornton for another curry - this time in their seated restaraunt. Again, it was very nice! Brother-N picked us all up and we headed to The Cockpit in Leeds for the gig. And what a gig it was! On the door you had to show ID to get a wrist-band in order to get served at the bar - Scru' the 25 year old didn't have any ID so couldn't drink... well, couldn't get served at the bar (that didn't stop him drinking - naughty us!). For a change, the merchandise was sensibly priced - I got an MxPx t-shirt for a tenner.
First band were I Am The Avalance (featuring ex-singer from The Movielife) - they were pretty good but nothing too special. The Matches were very entertaining but quiet vocals spoilt it a bit - still the songs were good and they had great stage-presence too.
The first of the co-headliners was The Starting Line. These seemed to get the kids really excited but I failed to see why. The songs were nothing spectacular and of the three that stood out for me I couldn't tell you anything about them twenty minutes after... Ah well... Soon after came MxPx - the reason we went to the gig in the first place. They played a great set with songs from every album and had their 2nd guitarist, Ian, playing so the newer songs sounded fuller with both rhythm and lead guitars. The pit was mental to say the least! Pity about the muppet who took it upon himself to elbow anyone who went near him... If you're at the front of a 500-strong crowd you've got to expect a bit of pushing... Still, I got a few elbows to his back after he nearly winded me in the 3rd song! The strangest part of the night was drinking Grolsch. Not that that's strange in itself but when it comes in plastic bottles it's a bit weird. Mr-JC picked up his first bottle and stared at it for 5 minutes to make sure there was something in it cos it felt so light! The bar staff must have been wondering what his problem was... Got some dead-good photo's of most of the bands so I'll try post some in the next few days.
So, anyway, we got home and had a bit of food then went to bed. Yesterday was a big group trip down to church trying not to fall asleep during the sermon (don't you just hate it when they have one point to make but they take 40 minutes to make it?!). Later in the afternoon everyone went home and I began de-stickering my 2 guitars. Cheap deoderant is great for removing the sticky bits - just don't use anti-perspirant cos you get a few extra white-bits!
Today, on my dinner, I headed up to the Northern Drum Centre to part-exchange my guitars for my new toy: an Ibanez GAX75 in Pewter Grey. Mmmm, nice :)
My New Axe
So, a fun-filled weekend was had by all! Back to work you lot!
MaFt
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groovy!
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