The following weekend I have to go to London on Saturday for a work conference - it so happens that Mike has a solo gig on the Sunday and then there is a Love gig on Monday March 1st in London, so the timing is quite fortuitous. I also have an understanding employer that lets me take lots of occasional days off (out of my annual holiday entitlement of course). I book a room for Lizzy and myself at the Thistle Kings Cross - I arrive in London early Saturday morning and leave my bags at the hotel before heading across to the conference on Park Lane, and then meet Lizzy there in the early evening. We head off to Upper Street in Islington for the evening, Chinese meal I seem to recall.
On Sunday we decide to take in a bit of culture and take in the fabulous El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery, plus a few of the sights of London. We walk over to the Garage early evening, its only a mile or so away - its snowing by this time. We spot some Love fans in a nearby pub and join them - there's Aake who's come over from Sweden with a couple of his Swedish mates, as well as Caryne who's a regular poster on the Love message board - this is the first time I've met her but Lizzy has come across her on previous occasions i.e. Love gigs she went to before we met up again! Gill and her son arrive, as well as John E who is a local, so there are quite a few of us. Good job really, because when we get to the Garage there aren't many other folks there. Mike is already there backstage, practising, and Hannah is with him. Just as he goes onstage the rest of the Love contingent arrive including Rusty, Kose and some friends of Bent's from Denmark - this crew certainly have a strong Scandinavian following! Darian Sahanaja from the Wondermints, who's curently working with Brian Wilson, is there as well, so there's an audience strong on quality if not in quantity.
Lizzy films the show for Mike, its just him and his guitar on the stage. Its lovely, he has a sweet, folky style, quite different from his lead guitar persona on stage with Love. Lots of audience participation as well, its that kind of gig. We hang out with folks for a while at the end and I learn that they've all been listening to the disco CD on the tour bus - and they love it! We walk back towards our hotel with Caryne, who's staying not far from us. Tomorrow night is the big one, Love at the Forum in Kentish Town.
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