Trowbridge - The Village Pump

Saturday - Trowbridge, Wiltshire - The Village Pump -About an hour out from Bristol. Grind noise bands, and hard rock bands, and bands with chellos and bands from out of nowhere in the middle of the southlands of The UK. An incredible scene of extrordinary people who have come together around the remarkable Charlie, who seems to have quite a talent for getting bands to play in Trowbridge. Bands on the bill last night included: chipper - (charlotte nichols) cello playing with the band - Caricatures - A Heavy doom trio -and the amazing Goonga - We took the stage last and were able to avoid any major technicial problems yet the guitarist from Goonga had some weird problem with his amplifier.When we took the stage there were no major issues and we rocked the place properly it seemed like. After the show we broke things down and a whole contingent went back to charlies place where we proceeded to drink some nice port and have delicious molded cheese with blue crackers and speak of music and people and the general state rot in the world, which was quite pleasant. Finally when everyone was keenly lubed up and the ghost stories started to come out, it was a church visit at 3 am in the middle of an awesome graveyard where the flash of the cameras illuminated the eriee inside church, johny o played us a piano soundtrack in the halls of the dead we found sanctuary and found the probabilities of ghosts and those maybe 100 years passed away. It was matt and charlie who made the impossibly creepy way there. I have no truly concrete recollection of this time execpt to say that it was preceeded by bitters, port, and single malt something and an amazing journey through English neighborhoods lined with juniper and a maze of pine and scotch shrubs culminating in a visit to a hundreds years old beautiful brick church where Jonny O decided to play a soundtrack of the damned and camera flashhbulbs lit our way in. The pews and the smell of it made methink of musty years that have passed and been forgotten and matt swore he had seen ghosts. Blue orbs were calling but the presence of so many people made the tandem transfixition too muddled so we made our way back to charlies house and as we left Johnny threw Mickey down in a symbolic gesture of sacrifice to the nobles and people from days passed by. It was, in my mind, quite a cool event in every way.