Why: I loved this band when their first stuff came out. Really loved them. Tulips was my favourite, and I thought they were about the most exciting guitar band in London.
But that was 2004-2005, this was 2007. I’d liked the Weekend in the City album, but it was no Silent Alarm. Didn’t stop me going though, and the job I was working at the time was full of younger kids who liked trendy rock music. What wasn’t to like?
High: None, it seems. Just did a search on my Gmail to check my memory on who exactly I went with, and I turned up a one line GChat to a girl I’d met through friends years before who something might once have properly developed with. (It didn’t, but she’s still a friend).
“Just back from Bloc Party at Brixton,” it reads, “Strangely disappointing.”
Drinking: A Friday night, so all about the Brixton lager with the kids from work.
Thinking: What’s with the ‘more mature, less spiky’ sound guys? This isn’t going to end well.
