Bricks and Party-Poppers

[squirmelia]

Club Dreadnought, underneath the old railway arches, near to London Bridge: The final night before it crumbles, in bricked-up tunnels, where the trains used to go. Smatterings of black clothing cling to the crowd, who linger underneath the curved ceilings, sipping drinks by the dank dance floor. They cannot hear each other above the music; they may as well be talking in whispers, but they smile at each other, scowl at the prices at the bar and search for people they know anyway.
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Saturday night, in London, and it's erming and melston's birthday celebration in a pub, but I've run out of time and leave soon after I get there.
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Saturday night, in Cambridge, and it's robinbloke's birthday party, and I drink cider out of a used-up party-popper and wonder what dragons taste like.
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In London again, it's Sunday, and wintrmute and I photograph statues repeatedly, with different exposures, and then it gets too cold and we wander through parks, gazing back at the sunset.

Comments

[erming.livejournal.com]

thanks for coming along...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Was great to see you :)

[thepussykat.livejournal.com]

lovely description of Dreadnought :-), I hope you enjoyed it regardless of the bar prices though. We did when we managed to attend.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I like your style. :o)
Oh, and I added you on flickr, too.

[deborah_c]

Oh! I did actually make it to Robin's party, but we must have missed each other :-( You should come and visit Cambridge more often!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I did have fun and also quite liked the building it was in really. :) Was it in that venue when you went?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Ah, I read afterwards that you were there and then wondered if I was so drunk that I couldn't remember seeing you! wintrmute and I got there later than we had intended, so I guess we must have got there after you left. :(

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the invite! I would have liked to have stayed longer really, since it seemed like it would have been a fun night. How was Invocation?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

You too! :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have added you back on Flickr.

[erming.livejournal.com]

It was good, nice venue good conversations nice music.

I didn't dance that much I was too busy talking. I may have been a bit tipsy though, as Quinn's does lovely beers.

[thepussykat.livejournal.com]

Yes it was in the back of SE0ne, quite some venue even when most of it is closed off. Sadly some of my night was marred by feeling rather ill and then when I felt better enough to dance the music wasn't quite what I was hoping for. Still we did have a great time and it's a shame to lose it. ALthough I'm hoping that something else like it will start up.