TGE Day 2

15/05

Hotel, Day 2. Ace. OK slow morning, need to drink something other than Jamaican Lager Beer. Not sure why people out and about at 9am, no gigs till later, hotel change, fry up and coffee needed! Highlight of yesterday without question Maccabees. Onwards however and excellent line up today also! So plans. Jeans have split and smell of beer, so new skinnies. Also camera? Good shots on smallest camera in the world, got funny looks up at the front last night, in the 'Pit'! Nurofen needed actually. Presently 8 gigs down, 10 to go!!

So Hans is now 3 coffees down in the press area having moved hotel to the marvelous 'Queens'. Quite like a nap before it all kicks off later... downloading ADN Project, Show 3 also, ace check it out, Hans' sea view luxury double needs readying ASAP please! Jesus it's blowing a gale outside, the elements really have settled in! Tsunami time I reckon.... Right, new jeans purchased and suitably trendy slippers yet now penned in hotel and plan has hit a brick wall. Meaning the whole 18 band thing sort of comes into question. Bad times. Back on the Stripe though after a bit of Hollyoaks in the room. Will try and venture out when the prospect of not getting drenched seems feasible! 

Right so to the Hop Holes to meet friends and get back on it. Good few Becks Vier in and the prospect of a gig seems a brilliant idea, even if it means the barnet getting messed up. Bid Lucy adieu in the Lanes as Hans remembers he has a press pass, so back to the best venue in

 Brighton, the Corn Exchange, for two OK gigs...! Mumford & Sons (Folk, bluegrass, afrobeat as influenced by Jesse Quin & The Mets and Alan Pownall's hair) promising but ultimately wrong environment? 

Onwards to gig 10 of 18, at this stage lamenting the meteo as it has hindered my progress, can Metronomy lift my mood? Yes. Sort of! Metronomy (We're sure you won't need much persuading to come and see Metronomy this weekend, their quirky, tangled electronic pop has been warping our ears for a while now and their ecstatic live shows promise to be as eccentrically explosive. Totally unmissable) at midnight. New line up with drummer and new bassist, half decent but not as synth or electro

based. Not as good basically in my opinion but pleasing enough! Must crack on tomorrow so parties on the sea front, I'll sleep on for now!