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Five Great Pink Lobsters

Posted by Matthew in Five for Friday on 24 Apr 09 • 82 Comments »

Five

Apart from being brilliant from a musical perspective, Homegame was brilliant for a great many other reasons. One of which was seeing semi-official Toad photographer Dylan walking around glowing like a well-spanked arse throughout Sunday.

How did this happen? Well, sleeping spots were at something of a premium over the weekend, and Mrs. Toad and I hosted well over a dozen people, spread between two tiny and massively over-populated cottages in the town of Pittenweem. This was all very well, except that on Saturday night, after a prolonged and somewhat industrial drinking session, we acquired a couple of hangers-on. Dylan, having departed to spend the evening with a couple of other friends of ours, returned to the cottage he was supposed to be staying in to find the floor entirely covered in bodies. Seeing as how he’s actually far more sensitive and nice than you would think, given he reads this pish every day, he didn’t just hoof out the interloper or decide to sleep on top of him, no he spent the night wandering the streets of the East Neuk and eventually fell asleep on the beach in Anstruther.

This would have been fine, of course, apart from the fact that it was gloriously, joyously sunny on Sunday. So much so that a certain gentleman of leeky persuasion spent the entire day with a face as red as our little simian friend in the picture. And there was much tittering. There’s nothing quite so funny as the misfortune of your friends, is there, for some reason. Maybe it’s just gratitude that it was them, not you, who was made to suffer.

I bumped into ex-lurker Dan at Sneaky Pete’s on Wednesday at the Casiotone gig, which was really nice, so do feel free to follow his example and emerge from the woodwork. You don’t have to make any sense or be all that witty or anything, you just have to fill in your five and then natter about total horse manure with the rest of us. And come to Yusuf Azak and Enfant Bastard at Sneaky Pete’s tonight, because it will be brilliant.

1. Beetroot – pickled, roasted, not at all..?
2. Worst sunburn you’ve had.
3. Ever fallen asleep somewhere inappropriate.
4. What is your activity of choice at the beach.
5. Ever cooked a lobster alive?

The Avett Brothers – At the Beach