back to the gloom

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Steve C is down in London this week, so lots of us got together for a trip to the marvellous phenomenon that is Feeling Gloomy, still pounding away every Saturday with songs to sing earnestly jumping up and down as if you were alone in your bedroom but of course you’re not alone! you’re in Academy2 in the heart of a shopping mall in Angel, bouncing up and down with a couple of hundred other lovers of miserable indie music!

Down down, you bring me down…
I hear you knocking down my door and I can’t sleep at night!

gutterslut

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

After the ballet we popped in on Ed and Pierre’s flat, I had some hot honey and lemon for my ailing throat, which was trashed by Friday night’s conversation, then we headed over to Peter’s 30th birthday celebrations at Gutterslut, in Images in East London.

I’d never been to Gutterslut before, it’s really good. Relaxed gay night, no attitude, fun music, space to dance, even a naked man in red suspenders and a cock ring round his erect appendage. Everyone’s being very cool there, pretending that’s just a pretty normal thing. Not Matt. He immediately started dancing around, laughing in a high pitched voice and pointing at the man’s cock ringed penis! Ed was admonishing him. Calm down! We’re metropolitan club goers, don’t embarass yourself.

It has to be said, the man with the cockring was a pretty cool addition to the proceedings. Apparently he’s there every week.

I strongly recommend Gutterslut. Here’s the blurb from the MySpace page:

I AM THE QUEEN OF TRASH OF THE EAST, TRASHIER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. SOME PEOPLE CALL ME A BITCH, OTHERS CALL ME A HO, I LIKE TO BE CALLED A SLUT

Nice.