Oh dear. I’m not sure how it’s become Thursday already without me finding the time to write about last Friday, but I can’t let any more time pass without mentioning last Friday night, when Sal and I joined Rob and Claire at the Islington Academy for XFM’s club night: First Friday.
We spent most of the evening in the upstairs bar, listening to Chris “News” Smith play what was initially a set of baggy classics (perhaps only so he could call his set “a Baggy New Year”), featuring indie club staples like Saturn 5, Can You Dig It, and Step On. Later, the early 90s gave way to the mid 90s, as the Roses and Inspirals tracks gave way to Digsy’s Dinner, and the Mondays gave way to Reverend Black Grape. At one point I glanced around to see at least five other people who also appeared to remember all the words to Bluetonic and Inbetweener, and later we were half way through something that sounded really familiar before I realised that we were dancing to Menswear’s last single.
By the time Sal had finally tired of not recognising yet another 90s indie pop classic, we moved to the main room for some slightly more modern indie pop classics (although fittingly that did include The Killers doing Shed Seven by numbers on Somebody Told Me).
All of which served to remind me that it’s been far too long.
We’ll be back.