Thanks for a fantastic evening ,ILX massive!

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It was great to meet you all last nite. Thanks for being such good company and for being nice to an old fool! I have no hangover, although I feel that I should - a testimony to the purity of Young's Special?

Sam and Ricky T - thanks for being so friendly and welcoming early doors.

Anna - if I had some UK Garage I'd play it right now to settle the urgent and key time-sig issue. But I haven't, and you were probably right!

Nick - fearsome web policeman revealed as diamond geezer!

Mark S - sorry I called you Everett True.

Stevie T - a sharp dressed man!

Tim H - we only spoke for a few minutes but I hearby appoint you Jah Hopkins - reggae guru an' ting. A long discussion on The Stockholm Monsters MUST happen at some point!

Tom - did I keep bumping into you as we walked back to Kings Cross?

Starry and Alix - put simply, you both ROXOR!

Alan - great to meet you. I was expecting a white rasta!

Chris - we must throw some arrows sometime.

Pete - another forthright web persona hides lovely bloke. Enjoyed chatting to you.

Emma - Thanks for the fags. I'll buy you a packet next time.

Suzy and Ed - didn't have the chance to talk much, but I was very intrigued by the wierd looking CDs and 5-inch vinyl (was that thing REAL?) which Ed kept producing!

I hope I haven't forgotten anyone.

― Dr. C, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Let me reconsider what I said about having no hangover. It's kicking in fairly unpleasantly now. Still, off to play dartsXOR in an hour and a half. A couple of pints of Pride should sort it.

― Dr. C, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr C = DIAMOND GEEZER! Hooray for Dr C, the first picker for DUEL! 2002.

― Sarah, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

was that thing REAL?

It's real, and it's spectacular. But he really should keep getting it out in public like that.

Great to meet you too, Doctor. I have never been described as a diamond geezer before. Or a policeman.

― N., Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You frgot Dave Q of course, who is much more retiring in real life (unsurprisingly). Nice to meet you Dave.

― Pete, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

he's a hella lot shorter than I thought he'd be you know. Dave Q that is.

Dr C, lovely to meet you too, and yes we must chuck tungsten at some point.

― chris, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

???????????????????

Closest I got to the pub was seeing it out the window of the 17 - WTF?

― dave q, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All this has reminded me that I was accused of being short last night. Pah. This is not true. And don't worry about the fags Dr C for in the karmic cycle of cigarettes I then stole Nick's.

― Emma, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Are people who claim to have met me serious, or just playin' with my head, or what? I haven't met ANYBODY, really. Can somebody explain this?

― dave q, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My word, there must be a lurker who decided to pass himself off as Dave Q: good one, whoever you were!

I never thought Dave Q would be *that* short.

― Tim, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like, I'm 6'1"

― dave q, himself, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, but now take those stack heels off, shorty.

― chris, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DQ - you mean that WASN'T YOU? Seriously?

― Dr. C, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i decided not to come at the last minute cos i was desperate to finish reading "v". duh. next time round i'll make sure i'm not completely absorbed in anovel on the day of an ile pubmeet.

― toby, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Great to meet you Dr C. Sorry if I was a little overly pissed. My having three pints pre pubmeet was neither big nor clever.

― RickyT, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tony, one nevah "finishes" a book by pynchon

― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr C, dave q. Splendid chaps.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

toby, gah!! sorry

― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ricky - we never concluded our conversation about The Fall. I think I started ranting about something else. Next time, I guess.

― Dr. C, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If this is somebody's idea of a joke, please tell me now, it's getting disturbing. Dave Q IRL = noticeably dim-witted sounding Canadian accent (obv.), smokes about 300 cigarettes an hour, doesn't really speak about anything except own band, anyone who doesn't do that wouldn't be me

― dave q, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, i certianly don't feel like i've "finished" v. but that's a good feeling. also it's inspired me to take a couple of days off "work" next week to read gravity's rainbow...

― toby, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah - e-mail me privately DQ if you can get me the stuff you promised. Don't mention what it is though, in case my wife reads it.

― Dr.C, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're taking time off for Gravity's Rainbow you'd better have a lot of holiday time built up.

― Matt DC, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom read it in five days, but he had to sell his soul — or was it peddle his ass, I forget? — to a Greek Goat Demon

― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What, buggered by Momus? Surely not!

― suzy, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i FINALLY make it up the pub i shall expect similar hilarious repartee!! hehehhh :)

― katie, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

buggered by Momus

Another one for the googlers...

― Nicole, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a bit miffed I missed this now, but on the other hand the gig I went to led me to WRITING SOMETHING AT LONG LAST, for a local website thingy. I would offer a link for anyone who'd be interested but it was only my first attempt so it's a bit embarrassing.

― DG, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, go on.

― N., Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nooooo! Everyone will laugh at me.

― DG, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel the same. Can't there be an FT for lepers or something?

― Ronan, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DG - any chance of a "4 GCSEs" comeback?

Dr C - very sorry not to have had the chance to meet you last night but unfortunately had to convene far more boring meeting (St George's Hosp PFI Steering Group zzzzzz) the most urgent and key issues of which turned out to be how we were going to squander all those lovely new taxes Mr Milburn is obligingly arranging for us.

Then again if "Dave Q" had turned out not to be Dave Q it's probably just as well I didn't go!

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"DG - any chance of a "4 GCSEs" comeback?"

Aww, cheers Marcello, but probably not as I don't feel like I have anything interesting to say in that sort of bloggy way. My creative energies are currently being deployed on my *TOP SECRET* music project.
But thanks anyway - I didn't think anyone actually read it!

― DG, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Four days, Mark. Two of which were half-spent playing Pokemon.

Great to see you all, of course, especially to meet Dr C. Thanks for your help with the DUEL draw (starts Monday). Sorry to anyone I didn't get much of a chance to chat to - as ever one ends up swapping in-jokes instead of mingling. Starry of course I found your CD the moment I opened my bag on the tube. I'm planning to be in London on Tuesday night so if you're around I can hand it over then.

― Tom, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, how many entrants in this draw? Are you keeping the US and UK entrants separate in initial rounds? With a big match off at the end of the worst Yanky band Vs the worst Brit band.

e.g two seperate draws of 8 or (indeed 16) if there enough crap bands, in a wimbledon style draw, i.e one half would be Brits, the other half of the draw yanks

therefore 8 would become 4 would become 2 would become 1 (Brits)

therefore 8 would become 4 would become 2 would become 1 (yanks)

Winnner of each pool would then face it off to become worst band of the year.

― DJ Martian, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Next time, maybe Marcello. Or e-mail me if you fancy a beer sometime.

― Dr. C, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did "I" cop off with anyone?

― dave q, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only a couple of people, DQ.

― Dr. C, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*I* read "4 GCSEs And A Chip On His Shoulder", DG, and I'd love to see it back.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheers! I dunno, I might do something, if I can remember the Blogger password!

― DG, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think more should be made of the DQ impersonation fiasco. Who would do such a thing? Is anyone willing to go back to the pub and look for clues (and Anna's purse)?

― Ally C, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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