Okay, so it appears I’m into the whole ‘let’s update once a week if I can be arsed’ mode. That won’t do! Media and communications I think has decided to get all hard and abstract on my behind, which I guess is nice but at the same time easy things are better. Sigh. On Saturday I went to the Silver Rocket 100th show spectacular at Imperial College’s student union and had a ball. Main attractions were bands who I’d seen before or liked before: Meet Me In St. Louis were tight as an unpleasant simile to the point where they could end up actually famous; Charlottefield were thankfully back on form in that they were excitingly laid back instead of seemingly apathetic. Lords were the band that fitted the birthday party atmosphere (bunting! birthday cake! Parma Violets!) and I think didn’t mind me nicking a certain song title for my own devices. The rest of the bands were as follows (I missed Joeyfat and 3hostwomexicansandatinofspanners because I knew that the tube would be a sod. It was…) - Future Corpses did the slow post-rock thing quite well; Superman Revenge Squad was like Bob Tilton meets BARR, aka conversational + emotional + a bit of dry humour does wonders; Big Joan were noisy and sassy; Silent Front were louddddd; Underground Railroad were a bit too SY-ey, but then again if I were in a band so would I; Cove should have utilised the clarinet more than they did in the end but were still grand.

Oh dear, that just all looked like a Wikipedia entry with all those links. As for Silver Rocket itself, you’ve got to like a club that’ll play ‘Prayer To God’ at a birthday party. They’re usually at the Buffalo Bar up in Highbury, every third Friday, clicky for details.

I took a load of photographs and none of them were any good. Still, if you want to have a look stay here after the jump:

JUMP.

Superman Revenge Squad:

Underground Railroad:

Meet Me In St Louis:

Lords:

Charlottefield:

Oh, and the running order was…

Perhaps I need to invest in an actual camera. And a Flickr pro account. PayPal button coming soon!

roman david