Dogstand Gig, the Catapult Club, New Cross

Friday was fun. After leaving a very long day at the office, Christian & I went to the local Thomas Cook to meet with our travel agent Jyoti (she booked our anniversary trip to Austria last May, we love her).
We're currently planning a trip to Australia later this year, for Kristen's wedding to Damien in September. Christian thought it would be a great opportunity to touch base in China as well. We had to stop off at the agents to go over the agenda Jyoti organized for us. It will be a multi-centre trip, touching base in Beijing, & a few other places I dont know how to spell.
We sent Jyoti away with some homework (to find out the prices of dinners, which didnt seem included, & to see if she can drop a 2 day stint in Hong Kong, as I feel its cutting it close). She should be getting back to us today on that.

Afterwards, we went to Wagamamas for dinner; a Japanese place in London that we really enjoy. As usual, I had my Salmon Ramen, which is just too divine.

After that, we jumped on the train to New Cross, to go see our friends band. Of course, when we got out of the station, we walked 2 miles in both directions, in the cold, before finally giving in to the fact we were lost, so Christian called Caroline. New Cross is a place in London where you dont want to get lost.

We finally arrived at the pub, the Amersham Arms, at 7:30ish. The bands didnt kick off till almost 10pm, & while I must admit we were super tired and dreadfully sensitive to the amount of cigarette smoke in there, the band was absolutely kicking. Theyre called DOGSTAND (connect to their website) and we love them. I had to contain the screaming groupie banging to get out of me. Christian photographed the event, and the pictures will be on our website soon.

I had heard their music before, as Caroline had given us a CD, but its just not the same. You can listen to their stuff on their myspace website here.

Sometime around almost 2 we left with Caroline and Graeme, and stopped for chips and kebab, before heading off to their house for this very very late supper.

Christian & I slept till 1pm on Saturday. Oh, we needed that.