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Ok to set the tone for Leeds weekend, picture a shot looking down at Leeds and slowly moving down, and the title “Leeds Weekend” fading into the screen, and soon after imagine “Day 1″ sort of dissolving out below Leeds Weekend with a slightly sinister sound accompanying it. Get the picture right? Because this is the exact opposite of it haha.

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Right, part 2 of this epic epic journey haha.

After waking up we were STRAIGHT AT IT with super smash brothers. yet again it was a two on one situation. It was particularly funny how stu just jumped STRAIGHT out of bed and went straight into gaming mode. It was proper intense, I got a glass of tropicana to drink whilst playing (was good shit, woke me up like a motherbiatch).

Kazzie and adam were pretty astonished to see us at it STILL. Adam did join in for one bit and surprisingly won the game by beating me. Of course, one has to remember that I was playing against adam and popey (dunno if inn was there, i think a computer was playing too) So i had to kill off 10 or 15 peeps out of the 5 lives I had. The end was annoying because i actually landed on a bomb which is why he won. Now he’s all smug about it. I think they were all starting to get smug at it, but not until they started giving me one on one matches where I showed them who’s boss haha. With stu i managed to kill him with just one life (didnt lose one), with adam I only got hit 5 times whilst he managed to lose all 5 lives.

Inn played a bit more too and then eventually it was time to pack it in and all. We were all up and ready to start packing things up and tidying things so that we didnt trash up kazzie’s house and all. I was in a tantrum trying to find my lens cap haha. Adam recalled seeing it somewhere but then kazzie was far too lazy/not bothered to help me find it (grr). Eventually I gave up on the idea of finding it and just started to pack things up. Kazzie brought my some rice cakes that she forgot to show me last night. I managed to munch a few down that time haha.

Anyway, after all the packing up, pissing about with kazzies 55-200mm lens, (taking photos of her cat haha), we were heading back to London for some more meetup action. I had a wii, and a dslr camera to take care of which meant I had to split up with everyone to go home, have a bath and meetup with them all.

This time kazzie decided to drive us to a decent station this time, Brent Cross station. Adam managed to lead us to the wrong station and got us a bit lost and all. Was tedious but at least we didnt have to take the watford route and all. The whole journey was painless and I managed to get home quite quickly and all.

This is where I lounge about for a bit, surf the web, take a bath, charge as much battery as I can, and get changed into a new attire, this time I was sporting some stripey green top.

Everyone else was partying it up at funland whilst I was getting ready and all. I left at about 3pm but was informed that they’ll be in nando’s so theres no point in me going to funland anymore :(. So yeah, quick travel to nando’s

Everyone met up, popey, inn, kazzie and adam all arrived late due to the fact that people were far too tired and lazy to wake up early and get to the damn place. people mingled but apparently they were all bored until I arrived haha (kidding).

I got straight into business and ordered some nando’s. The waitress was weird, her name was Serena and she seemed to be a trainee at nando’s, during my order she was complaining about being tired and was frustrated when we’d order things AFTER she has taken the order. Kev wanted to tap her.

After ordering food I got nice and comfty with the likes of kev and co and got down to the crazy array of challenges

Tetris challenge
Not exactly a challenge but we had 5 ds’s going playing tetris ds, was pretty fun. I managed to kick everyones arse at it haha. People were clueless about the items option and better yet, kev (the second best player there) is a nobody in my books haha (22-1). haha thats pretty harsh, but you know, I have played it for a long time haha.

Wasabi challenge
hm, I went to yo sushi to get some sushi and wasabi to do the wasabi challenge (was very successful the previous day and it ACTUALLY has some levels of difficulty and all!)
So yeah, ordered 4 maki cucumber rolls and 2 salmon nigri. I asked the crowd who wanted to participate and got the 6 people i needed (next time i’ll buy more haha). The participants were:
Me, Mona, Kev, Adam, Abbey and Aino.

I managed to ooze out as much wasabi goodness out of the 4 wasabi satchets I ordered. Me and mona picked the salmon nigris and we all ate the sushi at the same time. The best bit was the aftermath, cameras going wild whilst we take photos of everyone’s reaction to the sushi.

It was explosive. Me, Mona (and apparently kev) were cool with it, Mona still being the true winner since she actually ENJOYS the wasabi haha. The other two went running away like little 6 year old pubescent girls as the wasabi started to hit their noses, causing them to either spit it out or just cry in their nose.

Salmiakki challenge
This was the highly random and unpopular challenge made by aino haha. She made a few participants eat some of her random sweets and stuff. I managed to dig them into my nando’s chicken and eat it some time later when i was eating my chicken haha. Uhm…. yeah, the wasabi one was better haha.

Mona’s “I’ve never” game
Mona managed to do a quick game with everyone which involved revealing stuff people have or have not done. I won’t explain the rules since its tedious and confused kev but yeah. This game we get to discover hardcore muse fans, and other forms of muse board mind games. The game got a bit tiring since it was suppose to involve people drinking whenever they have done that particular thing, but uhm. we stood up each time and it ended up being too tiring to play haha (kev moaned).

The concoction game
A very spontaneous game I made up on the spot when people were trying hard to find a game to play haha. Rules were to pour stuff into a glass, and drink it, the next person then adds something else into the glass and drinks it, and yeah, its just a test of who dares to continue to drink it.
All sorts of stuff were added, including; salmiakki crap, salad leaf, peri peri sauce (extra hot), olive oil, ketchup, chips, coke, PEPPER! cheap nando’s mayonaise sprinkled with peri peri spice and all sorts of shit haha.

It became pretty vile, and then I wagered £5 for someone to drink the glass of vile. Abbey was brave enough to accept the challege and drank the whole damn glass (well, ALMOST). It wasn’t a good sight haha, she went to the toilet to puke it all back out haha. She was definitely brave for doing it and i felt slightly guilty for making the bet haha (though i was hoping someone manly like kev or chizzleface to actually accept the challenge (panzies))

Nando’s chicken wing challenge
This was meant to be the main challenge that everyone planned to have but it didnt happen, people started leaving too quickly and the other challenges were crazy enough, this meant I didnt get any free extra hot wings to eat off people
Other bits and bobs in nando’s
Nowt much really, michelle and caff later on joined us all but sat on another table and drank red wine, Michelle got a bit tipsy from it all bless her. Meanwhile back in our table, some truth or dare questions were asked, quite alot of table slamming and phoenix wright style pointing were made

Alot of greasy chicken was consumed. Well the annoying thing was that I couldnt eat my food in peace without people playing that damn “I never” game haha.

The waitress, “serena” was a bit arsey haha, i tried to dare her to get someone to drink that glass of vile for a pound haha.
We stole some nando’s cocksticks on our way out mwahahah, now I have two haha.

Randomness outside
After nando’s a few people left and we were wondering around for stuff to do. We eventually went to play DDR where kazzie wanted to challenge me into a game of DDR.
Played a few songs and it was fun. Wincy tried the other DDR like game made by konami, it required the use of your hands to dance as well. Its not as funky as the one you see in funland where people try to make something cool out of their hands by doing alot of unneccessary bits and bobs but yeah.

Kev and strippers
We were walking down soho where kev was trying to find some gash, he did go into a “friendly society” which was apparently a nice bar instead of strip club. A few strip club ladies wanted to entice kev to go in, we even got a 3 for £10 deal going on but we eventually passed haha

Pub
We eventually went to a nice pub called Ben’s Crotch (Croutch, whatever). And settled in for a bit of ds lite action, well lite and phat, wincy had let us down by still owning a crappy ds phat haha (though she bought a lite later on). Anyway, games that were played were mario kart and good old tetris. With mario kart I managed to win the first two races and then came second for the other two. It appears that some fucker kept throwing red shells at me so I couldnt overtake kev. Twas pretty unfair but meh, least i didnt lose to him haha.

We also played tetris, whoever played me kept going “shit, wtf?!?” as I pounded them with multiple tetri, it was only at the last game where kev suggestion slightly tipsy michelle to distract me whilst I was playing. I was groped senseless during the battle and lost to kev of all people eurgh haha.

We had some more banter, and finally the goodbyes and all. Loads of man hugs, girl hugs and banter near the end.
This was where me, michelle and caff said our goodbyes as we went to see Howling Bells live. That will be on another entry since its a gig of its own and all.

Michelle invited me to see Placebo and Howling bells the day before. Was quite an impromptu invitation but definitely something I was really interested in. The event was at Wembley Arena so I had to drag myself to that place for the 4th time within a few weeks time period. We were going there mainly to see Howling Bells since Placebo was getting a bit boring. Michelle wanted to check out Nando’s before the gig so we had a quick meal there before we saw the bands.

Nando’s was fun, went back to the same Nando’s I went to at 23rd Muse gig. Arrived at the station slightly late (Michelle had to wait for me for 10 minutes, oops). Ordered our food quickly and got right in there.

Above is the usual meal I get when I’m at Nando’s. Michelle bought a rather bland cous cous haha. She also had some of the chips and quite liked it. We were slightly late for the gig and was getting quite worried we might miss Howling Bells (the whole purpose of the trip and all).

So yeah, after finishing everything off we went straight to Wembley Arena. At the guestlist box office there was a semi large queue. If we had waited in line we would have probably missed the entire Howling Bells act. Michelle decided to be cheeky and ask the guys in front if we could go after them since we’re only here for the support. We were luckily let in front and managed to get our guestlist stuff promptly. Though we did miss a few songs.

Howling Bells was amazing live, I really like her voice, its haunting and glacial at the same time haha. Was slightly sad I didnt get to hear “The Ballad for the Bleeding Hearts” but I did get to hear “Broken Bones” so that was good. We had nice seats, was pretty close to the stage, but on the right hand side. It was slightly annoying how theres alot of gear on the way but we were definitely close enough to see them (and take some ok photos).

The band finished with “Low Happening” and told the crowd they’ll be playing at Koko Camden. Michelle said she could get guestlisted for that one as well so thats another gig booked into the diary (woo!). The next act came on…Archie Bronson Outfit. They had beards. Think I’ll stop there :p

After watching some bearded people play on stage for 20 odd minutes Placebo was then on. We managed to sit somewhere close to stage so I could take nice photos as well as hear the music better. They were alright. I really enjoyed watching them at Astoria, but today was a bit of a let down.
 

Most of the songs they played were from Meds so I hadn’t a clue what they were playing. It is nice listening to new songs that you havent heard at a gig. The problem with Placebo is that most of their songs actually sound the same. So that was another thing that I didnt like. There were a few songs as well were they just went on forever playing the same chord or chord pattern (like Every You Every Me and Running Up That Hill). I think the band lost it after Without You I’m Nothing haha.

On another note, during Every You Every Me, a guy from our seating block managed to run into the edge of the ledge, jump over that, tip toe on some pole that led straight to the stage and began stave invading. It was the most spectacular minute I had throughout the entire Placebo set haha. The guy was then taken down by about 8 security guards which was funny haha.

Michelle left after Every You Every Me since that was her favourite song, she’s lucky she left, the rest of the gig went downhill haha. Though they did play some oldies.

After the gig I made my way home. Was slightly worried I would be taking the night buses since it was quite late and I was actually quite far away from home. Went on mobile msn for a bit and talked to kev to keep me company. At one point I actually thought my last train had gone, but eventually my tube to Wimbledon arrived (probably last one) and I managed to get back home safely. The whole gig was cool, especially due to the fact that I didnt pay for it haha. Michelle said that I could be her future plus one’s for other gigs she goes to. Yay!

Also dubbed the “Nandos Meetup”. Kev assigned himself as team leader for this meetup since I wasnt about on the muse board on Wednesday so people were slightly confused as to what was going on. Kev did ring me up the night before asking when we should hold the meetup and all. Twas fun how he wanted to team lead it and everything haha. theres more where that came from »