amazing spaces.

Got the chance to see a free gig last night (and again tonight - The Blood Arm/Art Brut/dEUS* yesterday and Kasabian...and some other bands I don't remember or care for...tonight).
The venue, Trafo, was too amazing not to share.

The last one is The Blood Arm doing a song.

Always a fan of useless facts, I greatly appreciated a guy I met sharing that this place used to be some sort of rubbish-burning factory. It's all spacious and concrete and warehouse-y and, I think, also a club; but the stage area was this little platform upstairs with 3 stages on 3 of the sides with one band to a stage (genius) - I was stood to the Art Brut side.

I already have a wall of gig tickets for the near future (Friendly Fires (next week) and The Horrors (Nov 13th) at the Lido; Patrick Wolf (Nov 14th) at the Astra... the Horrors/Patrick combo makes for an excellent birthday present to myself, on the 15th...)

I look forward to many more events/clubs/cafes/whatever being hidden inside amazing venues. Trafo looks like any old warehouse situation from the outside.

*I cared not for dEUS either. Hadn't heard any of their songs before last night...

dumdum.

i went to see the dum dum girls on monday night. i forgot/couldn't be arsed to take pictures.

apart from having a whole load of tuuunes, they dress pretty well too, yknow. always look at things from a fash-un perspective, etc. of course, by "they dress well", i mean i'm looking for a jacket like dee dee's (front left in the above pic), and already have the tights she's wearing. and i wore them on monday. pure coincidence, honest.

oh, and they have a blog of sorts...

listen below!

adventures in repurposing.

back to blogging.

went to leeds yesterday for to see regina spektor with daniel.

twatted about in a bar and had a beer beforehand, aka wrapped my necklace around my person in different ways.

despite significant manface in the last pic, i'm a fan of that style. note to self: more messing.

daniel did similar with his denim shirt (and my necklace, because it was gaga-tastic)

"look, it's a muff!"

oh, here are some gigpics (all a little blurry and samey, we were far back and it was dark):

leeds academy is a nice venue. long train back though (we got a later one so we didn't have to rush, hello having another beer on the way to the station)...

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kele.

pics are either mine or stole from Bailey's facebook. she won't mind...

a little thursday evening gigging. he was awesome - some remixed bloc party stuff, as well as the new album stuff which sounded great. of course, alcohol may have helped my thinking here.

i remember being at gigs at age 16 and having a hard time deciding whether the 14 year olds declaring the love for whatever band were more annoying, or the drunk older people dancing around with no regard for others.

having now experienced being a tipsy older person at a gig, i find the sober kids giving us withering looks to be the most annoying.

a life lesson learned, i think? younger people are always the most annoying; maybe because you will, inevitably, be the older people one day, but you can never be the annoying young person again.

this is getting a little philosophical, so here are some dodgy club-based pics of my outfit, instead.

thrifted jacket+bag(not seen)//vintage dress+necklaces//topshop crop top+cropped leggings//

oasis wedges (of course) (not seen)//H&M necklace+ rings

dancing, not posing.

it's a mystery

Photo blogging is my new favourite pasttime.
I should've been doing work (I should be now) but a secret, and free, Mystery Jets gig in a car park with free drinks followed by a night of flailing dancing at Digital is hard to pass up. Excellent day.

(You may enjoy pics below of Aaron's mandals; the set up in the car park, various shots of us enjoying our free lagers, Aaron's full on nerdiness in the form of Doctor Who pencil tins, and Cat's sheer excitement. Also some Mystery Jets.)

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gaga-licious

So, Thursday night.

Gaga times.

I haven't much to say - I had a Golden Circle ticket, which was tres amazing cos I was right close, but with room to dance. There was a man with a lobster hat.

Gaga was AWESOME.

And I managed to get a whole load of pics.

Photodump commencing....now.

My good friends Daniel and Cat (you'll have seen them around these parts before) waited around round the back of the arena, and met her. Jammy.

I was too busy dancing, but I do wish I'd gone with them...

(these are both from Daniel's facebook; sure he won't mind...)

So yeah.

There are a TON more photos, and you should be able to see them all here or over at facebook...

Enjoy! (I certainly did :D)

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my kinds your kind; i'll stay the same

Thursday night was the Yeah Yeah Yeahs gig - the second time I've seen them this year, this time in Newcastle with Luke. They were awesome; we got all jumbled up and sweaty in the pit, and we got pretty close to the stage despite turning up halfway through the support act.

The stage was all glittery and swirly and had the same big eye as in April looming over it. All my good photos are below... (stage, full band, Nick Zinner, Karen O x lots)

Ms O's getting her leather on in the last one...I phoned Ana during Zero :D she professed her love for me.

I took so many pictures, but nearly everytime I went to take one, someones hand popped up right infront of Karen O at the last minute...you can't imagine how annoying that is after the 15th time in a row.

There was so much confetti raining down from above the stage! Luke was trying to catch them all (like Pokemon XD), and I got some down my top...
Tried to take a photo: