Pete im Doppelpack - my weekend

Last weekend was supposed to be a quiet weekend in for me but after Alex's friends couldn't make it to go to Fabric with him, I was already getting ready to go with him when we heard Pete would be playing at the 126 that night. 126 is a small flat in the East End with lots of slot machines and a little bar. When we arrived, we were told that Pete has just left his house and is on his way. So we grabbed a drink and sat down. The music in this place was weird, old school drum and base. Bungle and me were discussing that this whole situation seems like a weird blurred dream, it was just such an unlikely place for Pete to play haha.
But of course he came. We were only like 30 people there and most of us were sitting on the pool table while he was playing. He had some troubles with his microphone as he hung it up on a lamp and the lamp wouldn't stop spinning when he was singing which ended up in him chasing after the microphone :D It was quite funny to watch, poor Pete.
He was in a great mood and played loads of requests from us, the setlist included
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Every Day Is Like Sunday
Rubber Ring
Rusholme Ruffians
Heaven Knows Im Miserable Now
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Well I Wonder
Up the Bracket / What She Said
West End Girls
Cant Stand Me Now
Dont Look Back Into The Sun
What A Waster
Psycho Killer
Hired Gun
Dilly Boys
You Talk
Back From The Dead
Radio America
Bollywood To Batersea
Arcady
Im Forever Blowing Bubbles
Last Of The English Roses
Death On The Stairs
The Man Who Would Be King
You're My Waterloo
Paperback Writer
I Love You But You're Green
Beg Steal Or Borrow
I Wanna Be Adored and many more.
After he finished playing the first set most of the people went home. But the rest of us had loads of fun with Pete playing drum and base songs and having a laugh. It just seemed to go on forever until he sat down to play more songs. It was very sweet to watch him playing guitar with two boys and singing The Smiths songs together.
I think we must have been there till about 6 o'clock until the owners kicked us out. It was a great night and this made us wanna go to the Woodberry Tavern on Sunday even more.
There were a lot of Writtlers there and it was very nice to meet them.
We arrived quite early again after thinking Babyshambles would be the last band on at 11pm but the place was empty still.
After Cal Roberts couldn'tmake it, he was replaced with an awful female artist whose name I have forgotten. We were happy when she stopped singing.
Pete arrived early and was at the bar before Babyshambles played.
The next band on was the Younghearts. They were really good and we already saw them on friday but a huge group of the people rather followed Peter through the place and outside than enjoying the music. Poor Pete!
Next were Babyshambles. It was sooo good to see them play together again after haven't seeing them since March, every time I see them I love this band more :)
They played a great set and everyone seemed to have a good time.
After that, a band I have never seen before, called the Skuzzies came on stage. I really enjoyed to see them playing.
Then Alan Wass Band was on and it got wild. We were all dancing and even Pete joined it and was jumping and smiling. It was really good to see him so happy.
After the General finished with set Pete came on stage again with Joe Fox from the Younghearts and the drummer from the Skuzzies and they were playing loads of Libertines songs, Don't look back in anger, She loves you and many more. The whole place was going mad, so that the owner and another man had to stand in front of the people to stop them. The General jumped on stage too and let the crowd sing along to songs with holding the microphone for them.We enjoyed ourselves so much, thank you Peter!

Rock and Rose/ my weekend :D

After a nice sunny friday afternoon which we spent sitting at a pub's balconny by the river drinking wine (me) and beer (Alex) we wanted to go out for a meal but as I got too drunk, we had to wait for the next day lol.

On Saturday we went for a meal to a nice posh restaurant in Richmond, one of Alex's friends has recommended to him called Rock and Rose. This name reminded me of the perfume by Valentino and so did the decor in the restaurant. I actually wonder if there is any connection between these two things.




We had humous and pitta (which I seem to be addicted to at the moment), tuna steak (me), lobster (Alex), a bottle of rose and for dessert creme brulee. It was delicious but just too much. I hate myself for never being able to know when to stop eating. Every lovely meal always end with belly ache, I must be kind of greedy I guess :S

Simian Mobile Disco and Gold Panda

I finally managed to see Simain Mobile Disco last night at the itunes festival ater Alex and me turned up one day too early and queued up just to find out inside the venue that the gig we had tickets for was one day later. We both couldn't believe it as we had to print out tickets which both said the date very big on them haha.
Well but last night was finally the right date then :) We turned up quite early and even managed to see the support which was Gold Panda. We didn't really enjoy it as it was pretty boring. I mean there was just one guy on stage with his mac book wearing a panda hat and the music he made sounded like background music for a film.
Simian Mobile Disco were amazing. It's weird because I have never really been into any other music than indie but I start enjoying house music too. Alex laughed at me last night because of that :S I loved the light show they had and loads of people were dancing crazily. Some of them actually made me laugh but better dancing at gigs than standing around and taking one after the other picture blocking the view with their cameras like other people do.

Why is it so hard to get clothes in small sizes?

I was in Kingston today with Tina. Had a really nice day, shopping and went for a pint and some salad later on. I realised again that every time when the sale is on, there's nothing left that I like in my size. I just don't understand why it is so hard to get something in a size 6. Some shops don't even bother to make clothes in this size like for example oasis etc I don't think that's such an unusual size :S I remebmber when I lived in Germany it was even worse. The only shop with fashionable clothes there is H&M. But even the size Small there is like a size 8 in the UK. So I had to wear too big clothes for almost all my life! You can't even get my bra size in Germany unless you order in a catalogue. I said it to my sister as a joke that H&M just makes fashion for fatties :S I mean I can't buy any hot pants from there as they are all too big. Another thing with H&M and Germany is that if you listen to indie music, this is the only shop you buy your clothes from, means you can recognize people even in England that they are German because they are wearing the clothes you had to buy when you lived there. I'm so happy to be in London, I can't imagine going back to the tiny selection of clothes that the Germans have and I never buy from H&M anymore as I know all German people wear it haha...anyway I think I'm kind of drunk. I just went to the shop for Tina to get some wine and fags and wine makes me drunk quite quickly...

Alex went to Global Gathering with his best friend today and I miss him sooo much already. He has only been away since the morning but it's terrible :( I just wish I could be with him 24/7! I must sound like a stalker haha but the most important is that he is happy and has a good time.

I'm off back drinking again. Good Night xxx

Graham Coxon zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I thought I was lucky yesterday when I got the email that I won tickets to see Graham Coxon playing at the itunes festival. I entered the Fearne Cotton competition on wednesday. They were giving away 5 pairs of tickets, somehow I knew I would win because I wasn't too bothered to go to the gig...and so I did. I tried to win tickets to se Kasabian on the same day playing for xfm but seems I always win tickets for gigs I'm not really bothered about haha
Well Alex and me went down there quite late. The support band was even okay although I have never heard of Esser before. The venue was packed if I compare it with the last time when we went to see Jack Penate there. When Graham Coxon started playing I started to bore myself...Alex and me tried to give him a chance and still stayed for about almost an hour but it seemed like nobody was really enjoying it and many people were leaving early. Alex told me that even people at the toilet were complaining about how boring it was and people kept on talking while he was playing...I almost fell asleep. It was probably the most boring gig I have ever been to.

On the way back home we wanted to go to Fogg's which is our favourite restaurant in Camden but it was closed. I was gutted. We then went to Burger King but they didn't even have what I usually get in Germany, not the crispy chicken burger nor the wedges :( and Alex didn't get his milkshake. Bastards! Oh well, at least it's weekend again!

Seems like as soon I will be back in Germany loads and loads of bands will be touring there. Kasabian, The Rifles and even Pete will be on tour! I don't know how I will manage to write my bachelor work with all these gigs going on...haha xxx

I absolutely love pandas ♥

This is the panda Nicole gave to me for Christmas ♥



The big panda Alex gave me for Valentine's day and the little one I gave him for Valentine's day and no we didn't know we would both give pandas to each other ♥

no oasis tickets for me then...

I can't believe that after all these years they have been my favourite band and I couldn't win tickets to see them at the itunes festival, it's just not fair :(
Yesterday and today I have been basically trying everything to get tickets but no luck for me...no change there.....I got offered some to buy but I have only 5 pound left :S I'm rubbish.
I can't believe they have been selling them on ebay for 200 quid!

I met Steffi yesterday for some Camden shopping which was so good. We haven't seen each other in ages although we get on so well, it was like I met my lost twin sister. Was funny tho that the East End has scared her haha I love it there :)

I saw this lovely top in the sale on miss selfridge today, but I don't have even enough money for that, well I have just double checked and it's already sold out in my size :( seems I really don't have any luck today.


I got my shoes yesterday at last. I'm really happy about that although my stylefeed still grows and I don't have money left to buy anything from it! But I'm planning to go to a few gigs, too and that's why the next money I have must be spent for tickets as long as they are available.

I saw this very cool festival in Brick Lane, called Brick Lane Takeover. I'm definitely planning to go to that, as it's a very cool area and Eight Legs are playing, too. Hopefully the weather will get better till then.

I somehow can't wait for August as I will have money again but on the other hand don't want time to pass as it means uni will be starting soon and I will have to go back to Cologne. I can't imagine life without Alex anymore. I was feeling quite depressed lately as I was thinking a lot about that. I'm also quite scared of when I finish my course. I mean it's already so hard to get an unpaid internship here, how hard will it be to get a job then? xxx