The Quireboys @ The Forum

Sam and I went to see The Quireboys at The Forum tonight.


First support band , The Whybyrds, weren't too bad at all, a bit like Georgia Satellites "lite" in some respect but a good way to warm us all up.




Next up was Mary McBride. Not sure how she ended up being picked for this tour as she just didn't seem to fit in with the general vibe and provided one of the most wooden performances I have ever seen. Their final song started off as Honky Tonk Women but unfortunately Mary decided to sing the lyrics to Amazing Grace instead, BLEURGH!



Some of you may have noticed my earlier blog about a certain Armitage Shanx. Well tonight he and I met up for the first time in over 20 years! Was good to see him again and we still have so much catching up to do. Here we are:


The Quireboys were awesome as ever. Spike seemed to be having a real blast and enjoying himself.






See more pictures on my Picasa here: 141208TheQuireboysAtTheForum#

When we got back to Liverpool Street station (after loads of delays) we went in search of food and were pounced upon by a girl (called Jess it transpires) who had been on the same train as us heading into town (she was off to Camden to a GRRR GRRR ARGH Death Metal fest). She was a little worse for alcoholic wear and requested that we help her get to the train. We went the only shop that was open to get food (only Sam and I just had coffee and she bought a panini).

The panini looked foul, it was roadkill and the chicken tasted like fish (she persuaded us to both try it, thank god for coffee to take the taste away).

The roadkill:


Me after sampling said roadkill:


Turns out Jess knows a few of the people who go to Evolution, including Ric, Katie, Charlie and "scarey" Peter Carey. I have been tasked with getting Ric to take her to "death metal grr grr argh" night on a Friday at Evo and to send him this photo.


She won't see me though as I HATE the Evolution GRR GRR ARGH death metal nights LMFAO

"Interesting" girl, very drunk, and said "innit" a lot *cringe*. It was a relief when Sam and I had to get off at Wickford and met Toni (who had kindly agreed to come and meet us to take us home to save getting a taxi)