My first ever night out in Liverpool was a top one!
Got to area early and walked down street towards venue and heard the dulcit tones of Ian McCulloch's voice drifting down the street.
Turned the corner and listened to him rambling on in his sweet sincere (yet fairly miserable) way from outside the pub he was playing in (great sound quality) and looked at the poster on the wall of him for added realism!
Went to club and there was a band on singing about getting back to your roots - fairly do's. Upstairs was playing some top progressive - bit deep, bit dark so checked out there for a bit.
Went downstairs and bumped into Darren and Andy who were as friendly and cheerful as ever. Had a laugh about loads of stuff - the effort it needed to get McCulloch into doing a dance tune, who we would put on the hit-list for the current 'Campaign Against Living Miserably' campaign (www.calmzone.net), and the word 'pronoia' (the opposite of paranoia - when you believe the whole world is conspiring to love you!).
Darren said how great Brazil had been - c50,000 people going right off during the night! And that they are working more new tunes into the live show.
They played 1am-3am and had the place jumping - old faves such as the Victor Calderrone mix of 'Cubik' and 'Papua New Guinea' going down a treat and they finished with the '98 mix of 'Pacific'.
Everything else was a bit of a blur - but met some really great scousers and we discussed whether Mancunians are Scousers in disguise and Scousers are Mancunians in disguise, whether there should be a dance overhaul of the Teardrop Explodes back catalogue and met some older geezas who were having cool flashbacks as geezas had mashed up conversations in the bogs as 'Papua New Guinea' played!
Left the 'pool at 4am mashed up saying goodbye to the city as we passed a pretty cool huge painting on the side of a building of John Lennon as the Mona Lisa!
Not bad for a first night out in the city!
Peace and positive vibes,
student 'Dr.' Walsh