Finally got to Zeitgeist about 5ish, to find a funny division one side of the pub was a room full of goths digesting, the other side German football fans :)…Enjoying their tasty mulled wine and usual fruit beer creations with birthday girl enlyyl. Did lots of catch up and chatter with everyone before making our way to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. It was very reminiscent of Berlin christmas markets (just a tad pricer) but very pretty, and all the rides had a xmas theme, wondered around for a few hours and even had a go pretending to be tree burble (most ride a tad too expensive and not that thrilling)…ending the nigth at audrey re-heating our bodies with mulled wine. The end of a very good full Saturday.
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Afterward, as it was such a lovely cold crisp day we decided to walk to Zeitgeist, via yet another bookshop closing down sale: Borders and stumbling across SantaCon in Trafalgar square…never seen so many Santas…sadly most were completaly drunk, shouting and not a very merry site. I got injured trying to get nearer to take photos by a sprout!...as well as empty cans it was something they thought funny to be throwing at people and it was quite painful. I might end up with a Brussels sprout bruise, how Christmassy
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That i am intrigued to see ...i loved that book...it actually really worked :) but who will play sexy Zombie slaughtering Darcy!!!!

Natalie Portman is set to slay the undead in a movie adaptation of best-seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it is reported.

This summer: Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, Iggy and the Stooges, Slayer, The Cult, Anthrax ...
http://uk.sonispherefestivals.com/

I have to say for once fairly tempted to return to a UK music festival…but so many other tempting ones in Europe …I am still plotting trying new ones and if possible with bands not yet had the chance to see …

Looking like a bit of an all over the place weekend…

Starting tonight with work Christmas party.
Saturday still have the last few Xmas items to get in Covent Garden, Robert Rankin signing at Forbidden Planet , pop to Ian Zeitgeist extravaganza, friend birthday celebration at Winter Wonderland & dinner and if courageous even pop to colleague party. Ending weekend on Sunday with meeting friends and Reptile.
Ready for Santa sack and mulled wine :)
Also i still have a few tickets left for Vagabond NYE...so let me know if you want some...so i can make sure i have enough on me...

Likely to be too busy on Saturday to have a dance (going from one thing to the next) but will be dancing at the Christmas Reptile on Sunday instead

Last night was good, not the best MM gig I have been too, but due to being at the front a fabulous experience in itself.
There was more smoke that at a sisters gig, he mainly played new stuff : ( , and sadly hardly any props. (I do really miss his old gigs of raising platform, amazing costumes and full on show).
Still some cool beam light effects, and well apart from the MTV Award show the closest I ever got to the stage at one of his gig.
All together a fab evening starting with joining Kals in the queue front, to magically find a little bit of barrier at the front and holding on to it very tight, to Donna and friends joining us there , until all being separated by waves of stampeding fans.
The supporting band Es0terica were also quite good.
Haven’t been that squish at a gig in a little while but all worth it
Despite being at the front, so much smoke , most of my photos were rubbish....
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Passing on the word for Ade50021

Deposit of £50 will secure you a place, I have decided to extend the earlybird offer until 1st January, so any deposits received by then (or if you travelled with me in 2009 ) will only pay the 2009 price of £225 including ticket and camping, (If you wish to stop in a hotel the bus will be avaialable to shuttle you to and from the Novotel Hildesheim to the venue daily, hotels to be booked yourselves,
Any bookings after 1st Jan 2010 will be priced at £245 so book early!!

If wanting to chat to Ade or give him money he will at the the G Fest on Sunday at "The Bull and Gate" 389 Kentish Town Rd NW5 2TJ

Doors 7.00pm Advance tickets £6.50 on the door £8.00

G Fest:
Vendemmian
Rhombus
Legion
Luxury Stranger

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234177/Thousands-starfish-carpet-Norfolk-beach-storm-throws-sea.html

The talk on Gothic London, City of the Deranged and Disorderly Dead

last night was great, an insight of why we so love to destroy London via zombie, plague, aliens in literature, how the gothic genre loved the city and its deceased…really we live above the dead …many of the classics gothic books I have read but lots of others mentioned I must check…the speaker Roger Luckhurst was very interesting and kept us awake with some very funny tales in places..

We also had a very good value English dinner at S&M, thanks to the so usual useful online 241 vouchers…and they had big yummy mug of Mulled wine too :)

Couldn’t quite believe it last night …whilst unpacking the suitcases and reorganising the clothe rails I found a box full of clothes intended for the bring and buy...oppps...how silly...just too many hidden corners under those rails and long garments

The Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball on Saturday was sensational.
After a last minute panic of wondering what to wear, the usual safety pins came out and I ended up making a semi flapper dress out of 3 shiny black pearly capes/shrugs...and decide on an anarchist sparkly beret :).
Simon even got one of his Xmas present early but if there was one night the brown boiler hat was to be perfect it was that one....
It was like being thrown into English eccentricity as its best, rooms full of twirly moustaches, tweed, plus four, uniforms, funny duck dance, elegant ladies, gin cocktails. The Conway hall style seemed so much better fitted for a chap ball than usual pagan events I have attended there.
There was a Japanese boudoir, a Hendricks cocktail bar (that gin and pear puree was just divine), tea and pretty cakes stall, in the grand room, we saw lots of bands & dancing (and some people really could dance), Mr. Bee the Gentleman Rhymer: rapping about tea and pipe smoking…Mr_flay escapology and bullet catching, 3 gentlemen’s throwing lots of paper aeroplanes and more and more.
Great mixture of friends to catch up with, Simon even got to be tweed revolutionary alongside Robert Rankin (who btw has a new book out and doing a signing this Saturday at Forbidden Planet). Fabulous fun elegant affair.
The photo of the night rob trying to eat my moustache :)




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