Last Sunday,Nouvelle Vague at Later Room.An excellent night.
I reached the Life Cafe without a ticket,and met another guy queuing to get in.I couldn't remember where in relation to the Life Cafe the Later Room was, so I asked this person if he was there for Nouvelle Vague and he mumbled (in a French accent) something to the effect that he was.
At 7pm, the Manager let us both in. We were the only two in the venue, which seemed a bit odd. I asked a member of staff about the gig and he said there wasn't one tonight-but there was one downstairs. So I went downstairs into the the Later Room.Later on, I saw the first guy who had been queuing outside.Collecting glasses. In an instant,it became clear. The Manager had assumed I was a member of staff so let me in for nothing.
I bought a bottle of beer,which dampened my triumphant mood somewhat- THREE QUID for a tiny bottle of Becks. I remembered then what I had done the last time-drunk their 11 bottle of wine instead. But before I could go and get it, who should come in to my cubicle and introduce himself and his wife Laura but John Bramwell, the vocalist from I Am Kloot. He didn't know I knew who he was until I told him I had seen him several times.His wife was very pleasant and we had a good chinwag, in the meanwhile we were joined by Tag and Sall from Eat Your Make-up, as well as another small coterie of friends.
The first act, Donna, was a solo female artist singing folky style songs,and very good she was too. Her vocals were unforced and emotional, and the songs themselves well written.
Nouvelle Vague arived at about 9.30pm. They started with a Lounge version of "Ever Fallen In Love"(Buzzcocks of course) and then did similar wonderful tracks off their album-"Love Will Tear Us Apart", a terrific version of "This is Not a Love Song" and a boisterous jazzy take on "Too Drunk To Fuck". They also played Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosis' Dead". The band were the last word in coolness, both the two women and the men, very affable and friendly too,at one stage thanking "all the Manchester bands who made tonight possible". They were rightly well received by a crowd that were 70% too young to remember the original songs. I loved it, not only was it great to be able to mumble along to the songs but I was absolutely steaming having drunk my bottle of wine and also part of John Bramwells, who actually sang along to "Guns of Brixton". He had a bottle of champagne-admittedly it was cheap at a mere 30 for the bottle.
I reached the Life Cafe without a ticket,and met another guy queuing to get in.I couldn't remember where in relation to the Life Cafe the Later Room was, so I asked this person if he was there for Nouvelle Vague and he mumbled (in a French accent) something to the effect that he was.
At 7pm, the Manager let us both in. We were the only two in the venue, which seemed a bit odd. I asked a member of staff about the gig and he said there wasn't one tonight-but there was one downstairs. So I went downstairs into the the Later Room.Later on, I saw the first guy who had been queuing outside.Collecting glasses. In an instant,it became clear. The Manager had assumed I was a member of staff so let me in for nothing.
I bought a bottle of beer,which dampened my triumphant mood somewhat- THREE QUID for a tiny bottle of Becks. I remembered then what I had done the last time-drunk their 11 bottle of wine instead. But before I could go and get it, who should come in to my cubicle and introduce himself and his wife Laura but John Bramwell, the vocalist from I Am Kloot. He didn't know I knew who he was until I told him I had seen him several times.His wife was very pleasant and we had a good chinwag, in the meanwhile we were joined by Tag and Sall from Eat Your Make-up, as well as another small coterie of friends.
The first act, Donna, was a solo female artist singing folky style songs,and very good she was too. Her vocals were unforced and emotional, and the songs themselves well written.
Nouvelle Vague arived at about 9.30pm. They started with a Lounge version of "Ever Fallen In Love"(Buzzcocks of course) and then did similar wonderful tracks off their album-"Love Will Tear Us Apart", a terrific version of "This is Not a Love Song" and a boisterous jazzy take on "Too Drunk To Fuck". They also played Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosis' Dead". The band were the last word in coolness, both the two women and the men, very affable and friendly too,at one stage thanking "all the Manchester bands who made tonight possible". They were rightly well received by a crowd that were 70% too young to remember the original songs. I loved it, not only was it great to be able to mumble along to the songs but I was absolutely steaming having drunk my bottle of wine and also part of John Bramwells, who actually sang along to "Guns of Brixton". He had a bottle of champagne-admittedly it was cheap at a mere 30 for the bottle.
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loretta:
OK. well It's not very special its just a photo of a place in black and white. So it can sure look like a lot of other photos I guess 
loretta:
I should use that for photographing me then 