Friday 13 April 2007
Morning, Tooting
Write out chords to Jim Webb’s Wichita Lineman
Mild, sunny
Bus to Wimbledon
Mutton khottu breakfast
Cup of tea with mother
She leaves on “Dial-A-Ride”
Shower & Shampoo
Prepare stuff for trip
Noon
Fresh air
Walk to Who Killed Kenny Tavern
Buy Guardian & Evening Standard
Pint or two, read papers
Stroll home
Eat stewed chicken that was slow cooking in oven
Turn on TV
Racing from Aintree
6/4 favourite: Witchita Lineman!
Comes second to 20/1 outsider
3 pm Rick arrives
Kingston Road, A3, M25, M3, A303, Langport road, Bridgwater
No Weller yet (7.30 pm)
Go for a breath of fresh air and pint in riverside (Parrett) hotel
Set up gear, soundcheck, completely empty pub
Allan, Bryony
Fist set
“We’re gonna take a five minute break and so we’ll see you in half an hour”
Walk and fresh air with Martin
Second set
Pack gear up, haul it out
Lift back with Martin
Aftershow party
Saturday
Walk down Long Lane proper to Dawlish with Rick & Allan
Buy Guardian from Costcutters
Pint in Lansdowne for the three of us
Look at card for Grand National
Pick out Silver Birch in pub sweepstake (£1)
Have trout and mashed spuds in Witch’s Bowl restaurant
Pint in White Hart with the girls
Buy a meat and potato pastie from bakers, as lunch wasn’t filling enough!
Put £5 eachway on Silver Birch at Ladbrokes
Car/ taxi back to Two Farthings
Listen to Crush basic tracks recorded the week before
Go in house and watch Grand National
My horse wins!
‘Phone taxi
Go and collect my winnings!!
Pint in White Hart
Taxi back to Two Farthings
Bing drives me to Mei Lai Chinese restaurant
(Isn’t that the name of the Vietnam village where the Americans committed one of their atrocities?)
Go for a walk along Dawlish Warren while food being cooked
Chinese food for everyone except Allan who has chips as he “Doesn’t eat Chinese food” (not even Fortune Cookies it appeared!)
Drive to gig
Unload; set up, soundcheck, first set.
Pippa, Carol
Go out for a spot of fresh air in Hospital Hill
Second set, pack up, load up, drive back
After show party (Chinese food- notably banana and pineapple fritters in syrup)
Sunday
Rick leaves at dawn
Breakfast with Martin (Chinese food)
Drive with Martin to Lansdowne
Pool
I win three out of three games (most unusual against him although I only won the last game by default on account of him potting the black and the cue ball at the same time)
Pint in the White Hart
Martin goes home
Go to the station- half-hour until next train
Pint in the Marine bar
Train to Exeter
Half-hour wait (in the Station Hotel) for London train
Sit on fold down seat all the way to Paddington (train chock-a-block)
Black cab to Waterloo
Train to Earlsfield
Bus to Tooting
Pint in Railway Bell and Goringe
Squid khottu takeaway from Yhaal House
A winning streak...