The stars exploded, Man you should have seen it... cont.

...Here's the long over due write up of the Embrace gig.

Claire arrived at mine just as I was about to leave, so she followed me to the deep, dark depths of Suffolk, to the little know village of Thelneatham. We met JJ, Marc and Iain and after sorting out the evenings food we all piled into Claire's car (minus JJ) and the 4 of us were on our way to High Lodge with Jimmy Eat World blaring from the speakers. JJ had to go to Bury and pick up Emma who inconsiderably was working until 6.00. After leaving the car in the gorilla, we made our way to the main area and found ourselves a picnic spot. Not before having a slight 'dip' issue. After opening up the various rucksacks, and cool bags we seemed to have packed ourselves a pretty robust picnic, shown by the jealous eyes peering from neighbouring rugs. JJ and Emma turned up about half an hour later, but the warm welcome ended quickly once we discovered Emma hadn't brought the cakes that we had entrusted her with supplying. Fortunately there was plenty of wine to be drunk and food to be eaten so her failing was quickly forgotten. The first band came on, but for the life of me I can't remember who they were. However they were very good, surprisingly good. After enjoying the amazing evening sun and getting trough some more food and wine Morning Runner were up. They were as good as I'd hoped, just a shame that the lead singer speaks like a twelve year old and looks like Lee Graham. (Does any one remember him?) By the time they had finished and Embrace had come on me and Marc had drunk about a bottle and a half of wine each, so we were thoroughly enjoying ourselves. The dancing and jumping increased as Embrace 'classics' played and after another bottle between me and Marc we off to the front to really get into the spirit, closely followed by Emma and JJ, thankfully really because I

dropped my camera in my drunken state and miraculously JJ found it just before some fat bastards size nine rendered it fucked! After the gig as we staggered back to the car parked we I think literally fell into Alex, Jenny and Lois.

We were very surprised to see them and I don't really think Alex wanted to publicise the fact that he knew us, well Marc anyway. JJ took Emma and Iain back while Claire was lumbered with me and Marc, during the evening we had drunk 3 litres of wine between us, just to give you a feel for the car ride home, it was lots of shouting and 'oi oing' and avoiding getting punched by butch boyfriends.

After getting back to JJ's, Iain disappeared home and the rest of us settled down with a stubby to watch the film, but everyone was unconscious pretty quickly. I was woken up in the morning by Claire as she darted out of bed and out of the door after she realised what the time was.

Eventually crawling out of bed, I was woken up by a cup of coffee, and sitting in the garden enjoyed pancakes and pineapple juice.

A great weekend!