Donkey punch and Judy

Published on Fri 19 Feb 2010

I can't believe anyone would call a song that, but they have. I heard it with my own ears.

It feels like I've not stopped since I last wrote. Last Thursday The Travis Waltons played for the 3rd time ever, supporting Hot Club de Paris, and I thought it was easily the best one yet. It was pretty dark in the pub...

Beforehand I did some further research into exactly how far I can comfortably drag my keyboard on foot - narrowing it down to "not really as far as The Portland".

It was our first attempt at doing backing vocals, and I found it a bit stressful - the only times I've ever sung with anyone else I've been doing the lead part and it's been really easy to hear what's been going on. In a loud band situation it's much harder, especially when you have a voice that doesn't cut through things. I think it'll all sound really good with some more practice though. I could hear what Ed was doing, even though he said he couldn't, and that sounded great. I was concentrating so much on the singing that playing pretty much took care of itself though. There was a nice big crowd, what with Hot Club de Paris being a real band, and they were really nice to us - lots of whoops etc. I saw some mobile phone video of the first song, and we looked like a real band too. I watched a few songs of Hot Club, and they seemed great (and really nice guys), but it's not that easy watching other bands when you've been playing. Dan and Ed were still pretty excited long after it was all over... 

Friday was a fairly standard straight to the pub after work followed by a curry kind of thing. The Golden Curry on Mill Road aren't overly clear about the spiciness of some of their dishes.

Nice food though.

On Saturday I got up just in time to go and watch Cambridge playing the mighty AFC Wimbledon, and it was the first really enjoyable game I've been to for ages. It was helped by one of the Wimbledon players coming over and celebrating right in front of us, giving us a handy pantomime villain. Lewis Taylor, what a wanker, what a wanker. Also, Cambridge managed not to lose for the first time since December or something, so that was nice.

In the evening The Morning People played for the first time with our new bass player Fabian, and very well he did too. I'd missed all the practices so was a little concerned I'd struggle, but I didn't. I don't often seem to lately - I think because I'm playing keys a lot more. I didn't much like the atmosphere though - it seemed to be full of the kind of people who still have Che Guevara posters up in their drape-ceilinged bedsits well into their 40s and are incapable of making sense after about 9.30pm. The guy from the headline act (the ones responsible for the title of this post - they were pretty good though, and it's always fun seeing an upright bass) had pretty much exactly the same keyboard as I do, which saved me the trouble of trundling mine over the road. I think it was Chinese New Year, because the sky was full of flying lanterns when I left.

iwantoneofthose.com have replaced the duck hunting game my brother got me for Christmas that didn't work, with a duck hunting game that doesn't work. For some reason I wasn't remotely surprised.

I'm off out now - I'll tell the tale of supporting David Ford at some point over the weekend - I'm doing bugger all. So ronery...

Haha Stephen Fry just accidentally called Sue Perkins "Mel". I miss Mel.