Mike

To be clear, the pizza was fine, the ambience not so much!

And everyone else there got given a coloured garland! But not me. 😂

Don’t ever go for a “quiet” pizza at the Adelphi! #partypub

No chance! Will see how much of the Tubs I last but they'll need to be great to allow me to stay for the hour.

Line check sounding promising though.

Clearly both of us being in same room did something to reality - see also DLC's string breaking on Father Thames Mother London.

Then again maybe it was just a coincidence!

Really nice to meet you, Jason. Hopefully see you again sometime.

Best other band I heard (more than saw) was Autocamper, maximum crush before Blitz opened!

But they were great and album purchased.

PPF latest: @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social and Daren smashing.

Got the honour of a request played and promoted to the role of Honorary Drummer's Beer Roadie!

Karen! Karen! Karen!

Karen blasting away at Preston Pop Fest at the Ferret

Are you there Jason? If you see an old dude in a Broken Chanter t that's me. Although currently out to tea in the party pub!

Right. Once more into the breach but I definitely need to spend part of the next ten hours (gulp) sitting on my backside! #tooold

I believe the first pic features you, @echoesotb.bsky.social!

What a shop Action Records is!

Round up of the other bands that I saw last night

Local heroes Ginnel who played to the biggest crowd outside the Nightingales

And in the Snug:

The Amber List
Normal Service (who are Scots)
Tigers and Flies

That too!

That would be fantastic. Really pleased I stopped wavering about coming and it was great to see you guys play again.

Clearly the Spare t was a good choice as it was an ice-breaker with Rico too!

It was!

FFS is that an AI improvement? 🤣

Pop obviously and I know I corrected that!

No poo at all, obviously.

Should be the law really...

Finally my first live experience of the Nightingales.

Quite the thing to play 50 minutes without a break, isn't it?

The Room were as excellent as ever and it is now apparently the law that they play a new song when I see them as they played Magic Game for the first time.

And nearly suffered death by the Legend! during Things Have Learnt To Walk ...

Have seen very little poo, absolutely no jangle so far, but it's been really good so far. Nightingales shortly to finish my evening.

Thanks, Tracey. Yes , Pop Fest.
.Avenhan Park is gorgeous. In fact the whole area South of the main street has lovely Victorian buildings.

🤣

The bus station looks cool. Popped up in Ginnel's graphics and thought you'd want to see it, Rob!

Will visit in person on the way to the record shop tomorrow morning.

First band I've seen before that are playing Preston Pop Fest and was looking forward to seeing again but @rrrapidkool.bsky.social exceeded expectations even with an abbreviated set.

Yeah bought a double LP off them on Discogs but got 2 copies of extra disc and none of the actual album! Nipped in to swap my copy for a good one but planning to return tomorrow morning.

Not seen it but train station isn't particularly. 🤣

Action Records looks good though.

Passed through at lunchtime. And it is indeed.

In Preston

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Finally re-phoned after nearly 5 days, albeit with a new phone since it was cheaper to upgrade a near 3 year old handset than get the bricked phone repaired.

Generally it was quite easy to get apps etc set up from the Google account although bizarrely hardest thing to set up was the Google watch!

Pavements movie poster featuring multiple black and white and one coloured head shots of band with red border

#2025cinema

#15 Pavements

DCA, Dundee (today)

?/10

Not sure what to make of that. I enjoyed a lot of it but it also dragged in places. It’s certainly different!