Ginger DJ Rob

Friday was all about seeing 2 Many DJs at Brixton Academy . We met up with Gavin and Candid for a catch up drink and found out they were playing from 12:30am. The queue was enormous but didn't take too long to get searched and enter the foyer which was getting the 'second room' treatment from a couple of DJs. Whilst we were about to get searched a right stoner in front was asked by security if he had any drugs. He answered yes(!) and questeioned whether they would still let him in?! Dude! At least try and hide them then lie! Pat and James from LCD Soundsystem were the main support DJs weren't going down very well mainly due to the sound quality. Only by turning up the EQ to maximum did they get any reaction though its mostly to do with being under the balcony. By about midnight it was getting seriously rammed and Kerry, who unfortunately had some minor skin surgery earlier with stomach stitches, was getting knocked about too much. Thankfully, the Belguim heroes came...

A special school night treat for Thursday night at Digital with Paul, Sarah, Emma and James. It was a bit of a hassle getting the tickets as the club website didn't mention it; Resident, the record shop in town hadn't heard of it ; and even emailing the club they were a bit sketchy saying it was next door and tickets could be bought from a shop in Newcastle?! There wasn't really any local promotion for them either and it was only down to a joining a Facebook group had I found out about it. With all that said the club was practically empty with an estimated 40 fans turning up. The support act was ear-ringingly loud and just made everyone edge further away from the stage. The Juggernauts came on quite late and kept the set quite short but concentrated on their best work ignoring the small crowd. There were a couple songs where the keyboardist and guitarist swapped roles like 'Tombstone' which got the crowd rocking. Later the guitarist stood off the stage and rocked al...