The Wildhearts

Where is everyone gonna be prior to the London gig?

in london somewhere
Not sure actually, i've not been to Islington Academy before, there's a belgos on Upper Street that i like, but it's pricey and I don't know if it's close to the venue. there's plenty of bars around tho.

Ah, yeah, good question.

I'm gonna be driving down to my mate's during the day, so I'll be mooching around London 'til he finishes work if anyone's about for a beer or three?

Turning up around four, so I'm up for a pint or 5 in wherever has the shortest stumbling distance to the Academy!

xxx

I'm up for meeting a few other people from here. I have never met any of you but would love yoo. So where is every body going to be?

me and my girlfriend are coming to london from naples, italy to attend the london gig!! and we would like to drink some beer and a couple of whiskey with some of you!!

cheers

The Islington Academy is in an open air shopping centre kind of place on the first floor - next to a Borders bookshop and above a Footlocker - how fucked up is that.

Opposite on the same floor is a very well placed bar called the Glassworks (part of the Wetherspoon empire - so reasonably cheap and large selection of alcohol is there for the taking) It's also huge so getting in shouldn't be a problem.

Hope this helps - see you all at the bar!

very basic directions to the gig:

go to Angel tube station
go out the exit and turn RIGHT.
this is a large main road. Cross over the road at the earliest opportunity and carry on in the same direction (if i remember correctly, it's on a bit of a junction with a road going diagonally off. Cross this road also and keep walking in a straight line.
After about 3 or 4 mins walking, there's a shopping centre on the left. It may or may not be called N1 shopping centre, but i *think* there's an Orange shop at the front of it.
Go into said shopping centre, and up the escalator to the first floor. the pub is (as you look at the shopping centre) on the lefthand side at the back, and is fairly large.
I think the entrance to the Academy itself is downstairs on the right (as you look at the shopping centre from the front entrance).

happy boozing and gigging - i'm not sure at the moment if i can afford it, if i can magically find some money i'll be there, if not....i might go to the wetherspoons!!!

Glassworks it is then!

Hopefully see you all on wednesday.

Yep, the entrance to the Academy is on the ground floor.

It's a bit of a strange venue, because you can't tell what it's going to be like inside due to the building being incorporated into the shopping centre.

So what's it actually like inside once you have fought you way past all the shoppers?

Decent venue? How many bars?

oo-er, now you're asking. *tries to remember*

I think it has 2 bars, 1 down either side. I can't remember if it has an upstairs seated area or not (I don't think so, or the tickets would specify).

first Ginger gig for me... see you all in the Wetherspoons before?

I'm gonna try to turn up at the Glassworks at 6ish if I can... hope too meet some of you there

\m/

Yep, I'll be there. Hope to see some listees/whatever we here are calling ourselves.

Thanks for the directions Kate - hope you can make it tomorrow too.


Woo, my 100th post.

*does little dance to celebrate pointless milestone then leaves for cloakroom*