Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:57:57 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I'll get the code stuff out the way first, by saying that I've been setting up the community sites for Scrobbles, and I've written most of the .NET SDK around the web services. That's cool.

Last night on Friday saw a few of us heading out to Koko to see that band I liked a couple of weeks ago (Die Die Die), and I had quite a good time dancing and rolling over the floor with people in some crazy chaotic action. The people with me didn't enjoy it all that much sadly, as the crowd just wasn't their thing (and Angela is sober for a month, ouch!).

Ah well, we decided to salvage the evening by walking from Camden to Paddington at 1:30am. That was a lot of fun, we walked around the park, over the canal, found a mattress to bounce on, and then on reaching Edgware road, on what should have been a simple walk to Paddington, got distracted by some guy who shouted at us and we thought was going to attack us. Happily this did not happen, but because of the distraction we took the wrong road and ended up buying ice cream from a service station. We got home at 5am and decided that the walk was probably the best part of the entire night. It was much fun.

Tonight, oh man. Tonight.

I went to see My Bloody Valentine at Manchester Apollo. I am currently lying in a Travelodge bed and feeling slightly overwhelmed.

It was a pleasure to see MBV live, it was a pleasure to hear all that stuff that I listened to when I first started getting into music. It was so awesome hearing some decent shoegaze music live, although it made me wish that perhaps Neil Halstead would get the gang together and reform Slowdive (oh pleaaase, modern day Shoegaze revival!!).

I am so glad I bought earplugs last week. So so glad. At first the music was just music, it was loud, but no louder than anything else I've ever been to. I wore the earplugs anyway, because that is what I have started doing at all live music, as I've noticed it making the music even better to listen to. Anyway, the set ended with a gorgeous fifteen minute long feedback loop. It felt and sounded like being in a jet engine, I have never experienced anything like it. People were backing away from the stage rapidly with their hands over their ears and bouncers were seen running around handing out earplugs to those who didn't have the foresight to pick them up on the way in.

Oh it was absolutely amazing.

It was worth the trip up to Manchester, and my only lament is that I'm not going to be seeing them again anytime soon. If you ever a get a chance, do it for the love of all that is holy.