Random london adventure pt2
As far as logic goes this wasn’t very. Ina flew back from Rome to Heathrow Wednesday morning at about 3am and took the national express back to Brizzle. By 3pm we were on the train to Paddington at a cost of about £11 each. We then when to a sushi bar near bond street for some dinner – it was very good by the way. Next it was the tube to the Brixton Windmill which is a very strange pub/live music venue. There was a complete cross section of people there, from 60yr old motorcyclists to punk rockers to tourists to swish middle aged people… and us of course.
We were there to see the Veils start their tour in support of their upcoming third album. And what an amazing concert it was! We knew it was going to be, but there you go. The audience never got a breather from the intensity, regardless of whether the band were playing emotion-dripping ballads or raging torrents of sound. The new material is going to be classic but definitely a bit weird. It was all quite random really, and the singer even came in his wellington boots.
Finn Andrews of the Veils
And then we had to rush away at the end of the set to get the last National Express home (£16). This involved a somewhat exciting £15 taxi journey though the snowy London back streets and over the speed bumps. When we got close to Bristol we realised it was massively snowing (obviously we were also massively delayed). So we got to trudge through the swirling snow making virgin tracks through the whole of the centre. Outside Lounge people were starting to emerge from their student night and indulging in a massive snowball fight in the middle of Park Street.
Ina's street
Ironically, Ina had bought the tickets for Tuesday nights show which turned out to be canceled due to the weather. She originally hadn’t realised she would still be in Italy so we bought a second set of tickets for Wednesday. All in all the adventure cost about £60 for what was essentially a £5 concert. And I would have paid twice that it was so good!!
