So I'm back in London from March 4th to March 10th

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FAP, then? Or two or three or maybe just the entire week...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

GO TO TAYYAB, A PAKISTANI RESTAURANT IN THE EAST END (???).

IT WILL BLOW YR MIND

― mothers against celibacy (skowly), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

Well that's one night taken care of.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

Is this part of a more extensive euro tour?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 29 January 2007 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

So you're talking about this place, polarbear?

Is this part of a more extensive euro tour?

Regrettably not -- this is a semi-spur of the moment trip suggested by my friend Hina in SF. I had planned on a European trip later this summer but with other trips on the boil later in the year, including one out to the Deep South for the first time ever, really, this quick jaunt is going to be it for this year.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

that's the one!

byob, obv, cuz the place is muslim. and so, so, so good. best meal i had while in england, hands down.

― mothers against celibacy (skowly), Monday, 29 January 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

where in deep south?

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 29 January 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

Guatamala

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

This Polarbear dude speaks the truth about Tayyabs, about 14 of us went there for a big pre-Christmas feast and its fantastic.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

Obviously you need to go and see NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN (with added Carter USM), Islington Academy, March 4th. IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

You sure you're not mixing up NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN with ELTON JOHN FEATURING LEANNE RIMES?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh sweet Jesus.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

(how's Ned going to get that atmic dustbin on the flight with him?)

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

With the aid of his WONDER STUFF!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

I very much want to attend a NedFAP. For me Tues/Wed/Thursday look OK at the moment. My vote would be for old skool beer FAP somewhere central, not some fannydangle involving food or somesuch. But that's just my tuppence worth....

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

NEW SCHOOL KEBABS IN WALWORTH ROAD BABY!

― Tim Westwood pp MC (nostudium), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no it was NEW SCHOOL BAGELS IN WALWORTH ROAD erm BABY

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Drinks, eats, all kind of fannydangle

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

That's enough fannydangling.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

this sounds good! you're one day late to see nurse with wound, though.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Who's coming to the Neds/Carter etc gig with me, then?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Gary Crowley?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

oh if only I were not away that w/end i would be there.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

CarsmileSteve, surely?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Me, for a start. I don't remember much of the Neds but someone put 'I've Never Been To Me' on a mix CD quite recently, and my mind = blown.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

"Who's coming to the Neds/Carter etc gig with me, then?"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN (with added Carter USM), Islington Academy, March 4th

who wrote that billing - get it the right way around

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I forgot the order of precedence of the gods of fraggle.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

bowling then?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Alas the 36 LANE BOWLING ALLEY in Streatham Hill with added McCLUSKI'S BAR is no longer open for business.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

ice skating?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Their California blood will freeze and they will be extinct like the dinosaurs.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

neh, they can each borrow a scarf from me.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

where in deep south?

Georgia for the first time ever, along with South Carolina, where my aunt and uncle live but where I haven't been back to for almost a quarter-century. Would also like to spend some time in Texas properly, having only ever been there to transfer between planes.

This Polarbear dude speaks the truth about Tayyabs, about 14 of us went there for a big pre-Christmas feast and its fantastic.

Good, good...

Obviously you need to go and see NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN (with added Carter USM), Islington Academy, March 4th.

Flight arrives at 8:30 pm that night; combine that with the jet lag and I suspect my enjoyment factor might be low. (I admit I would like to see the show -- and to break out my old "I know the way of Ned" shirt; also, Andrew will be there and since we're staying with him there's something about the idea of meeting there that makes me happy!)

I very much want to attend a NedFAP. For me Tues/Wed/Thursday look OK at the moment. My vote would be for old skool beer FAP somewhere central, not some fannydangle involving food or somesuch.

Sounds good, more on this in a sec.

this sounds good! you're one day late to see nurse with wound, though.

Cripes, I'm missing all sorts of shows!

I don't remember much of the Neds but someone put 'I've Never Been To Me' on a mix CD quite recently, and my mind = blown.

Believe me, that was a one-off.

Their California blood will freeze and they will be extinct like the dinosaurs.

Do not want. :-(

Anyway -- some general thoughts: the Monday and Wednesday are already out since Hina and I'll be seeing one B. Anderson's solo shows and pondering duly. This said I'm more than happy to meet up for early dinner/drinks somewhere beforehand if there's demand. So for the remaining three nights:

Tuesday -- a Dr. C friendly FAP is surely the way to go here. Drink/wassail/etc. There's a slew of folks on a UK music journalist list I've been meaning to meet up with as well so I might suggest a combined FAP with them depending.

Thursday -- if Ed's up for it, he suggested some evening of cookery while I was there. Maybe a potluck thing or the like? If he's willing to host, that is!

Friday -- end of week/end of trip merriment into the wee hours. Maybe Tayyab can be that night followed by whatever pub crawl seems best, but whatever.

There's a slew of non-ILX folks I'm hoping to see as well at some combination of these things. And pretty much I'm open to any suggestions for things to do in the daytime -- lunches somewhere are always an option! If there's any specific exhibitions or the like going on do let me know; I was thinking of using the week to catch up on seeing a lot of things I've either not been to for years (Tate Modern, for instance) or never gotten around to yet in previous visits. Pretty much I'll play a lot of this by ear!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Thursday -- if Ed's up for it, he suggested some evening of cookery while I was there.

How do you feel about slug?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Roasted or braised? (Having had escargot the other night, I suppose it depends on the garlic butter...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

(Shouldn't there be a "Ned" somewhere in the thread title, btw?)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

i know! such arrogance!

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Thursday would be good I think I am going to Köln on the friday.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

I followed Pete's lead with his NYC trip thread title.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Also, a potluck sounds like a good idea, raise your hands if interested.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Would be, but we're seeing NIN that evening, so I guess not. Hope to make some of the other fun, though...

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

(come to Austin, Ned, and show us pictures of your trip to England. We will repay in barbecue and serious texmex)

― patita (patita), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

we're seeing NIN that evening

GUH. I take it this is already sold out to hell and back.

We will repay in barbecue and serious texmex

This is a fine idea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

it's not RLY carter supporting is it?

i'd seen Ned's were on, but wasn't overly botherd, BUT if it's carter as well...

HI NED, WE GO PUB, DRINK BEER, YES?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Can I make a request that we don't go to an SS pub?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

oh i see, it's the memorial/benefit for Wiz, it all makes sense(less things) now.

i second ed's request

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

HI NED, WE GO PUB, DRINK BEER, YES?

YES INDEED MY MANG.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

All Bar One it is.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Would the Market porter be too busy is we avoided thursday or friday?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

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And when you lived in Other Streatham!

Definitiely coming on Thursday, absent through dramas beyond my control. Could have used about twenty eeeny weeny lamb chops.

― suzy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

Twice, even!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

No, I've only been to Kastoori with Ned once.

Ned may have been to Kastoori again, but I did not attend.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm. Surely once with Jane in 2001 and then again in 2005?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

Kate didn't come to that one, we went bowling after.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Clarity.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

I went to the second Kastoori trip. Ned went bowling, in an alley which is now closed and boarded up without so much as a blue plaque to mark Ned's passage.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

The bastards. No respect for history. But Ken C's form is forever immortalized:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/29795491_aeead08db0.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

It will be a Weatherspoons soon enough as they can't even sell the luxury condos they build in the converted cinema across the street.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

oi oi ned. tix are tricky for tomorrow, they're gonna try though. might come through last-minute, are you on your regular email and/or can you mail me a number i can get you at? i got 2 for me for sunday yeeha!

― emsk, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

i have just spent the last 2 hours cooking something which might all turn out rubbish in the end anyway. gah. serves me right for deciding i didn't need no instructions and would just use what was in the fridge. plus the kicka$% seeds obv.

― emsk, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yay kickass seeds!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

i think it turned out ok. it went a bit leaky but that might make it quite nice. it's a shame it has to sit around for 48 hours though. but i have a magic last-minute thing that may salvage any encroaching nastiness.

ed, you won't be at home tomorrow am around 9.30 will you? is gonna be a pain in the ass to transport and i'd prefer not to drag it to work on thursday am then up to yours afterwards, but if i leave it at home and come get it after work thursday i won't make it to yours til 8.30 (ok only as opposed to 7.30). actually maybe that's fine.

― emsk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Something'll work out. Now Ed, post yer address details or something so we know where to go.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Never mind, that's been addressed. Anyway, has anyone heard from BLAM at all? I guess he just got caught up in other things!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, Emsk, I didn't see that.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

nah it's cool, have decided bad idea to transport by bike as will definitely drop and explode it everywhere. am going to go home, bring it to yours on bus therefore will be late - home by 8, at yours by 9? pls to save a bit of everything.

― emsk, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

Will, do if I have fallen asleep, pls to not poke me and continue the party.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

hey, uhmm, sorry, think I'll be a no-show at the FAP tomorrow, have cold and feel grotty. Ick. Sorry to miss you again Ned.

― jel --, Thursday, 8 March 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

I am just getting over a touch of the stomach flu, and am probably a no-show for tomorrow. Sorry to miss out on all the fun, but it was a lot less fun where I was. Ugh.

― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 8 March 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Aw BLAM! Sorry to hear that. :-( You've been much missed. We will toast you tomorrow -- get well for the trip back!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

Get well soon BLAM.
Thank-you for not poking.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:58 (eighteen years ago)

I have only just seen this thread.

Is Ned around?

Is there anything on tonight?

More suitably, is there anything on at about four o'clock this afternoon, when I knock off?

Neddy?

I see upthread it is The Harrison, Harrison Street.

I have no idea where this is, and will probably have to go home early anyway.

Poor planning by me. I have been distracted, I took my eye off the ball.

I have never met Ned.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Kings cross area.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

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alt link

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/415359006_0b0f65a661.jpg?v=0

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

PJM - I hope you can make it. Would be great to see you!

The Nedmeister looking most fine above. Most fine.

― Dr.C, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Esp. the hair

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

What? He's still alive after five days on British food? A miracle! Sainthood now!

― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

.. you should see his teeth tho

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

I think I have been to The Harrison.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

What? He's still alive after five days on British food? A miracle! Sainthood now!

What are you saying about my cooking

Although the tagine did have some of you country's fine Geuze Boon in it.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

*hic*

A slightly strange picture of me but hey.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

And yes, food was fantastic and everyone did a great job.

Also I now understand the ways of THE MIGHTY BOOSH.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have drunk beer in the Harrison in the company of PJ Miller, so yes.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

(I was merely kidding, don't worry!)

― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

PIIIIIIEEEE!!! Good lord, what an unflattering angle on that photo of me. I really do look like I ate all the pie single-handedly.

Num num, it was worth it, though. And I love the way the yellow of my curry looks against the purple and green paisley pot.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

I know where it is, now, The Harrison.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Okay all -- about out of here to Gatwick. Just wanted to say THANKS! to everyone again for being such great hosts, dinner guests, FAP attendees etc., especially the good Mr. Andrew F., who put up with us for a week. Hina had a grand time and sends her best to you all, and I hope to see you all again sometime soon. Talk to you later!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 March 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

did you go bowling?

― ken c, Saturday, 10 March 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

You weren't there, so no.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

ypu shoud start 45 thread abt how yr not in london

― onimo, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Tempting but no.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

YR DRNK

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have left behind an island of sottishness.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what that means, but I was xposting, for the record.

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

yr rite

― onimo, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

didnt meanto be rude nedbut srsly

― onimo, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

man can you believe i check that about 4 times before submitting

― onimo, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

I love you.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

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