laura_seabrook | Wake the Dead

Well, last night was pretty good.

Didn't get away from Barnsley until 7:50pm. Weirdness happened with my dog, and on the train but I arrived just after 11pm, and changed at the station (great use for the baby change room). By the time I got there most of the Newcastle gang were there as well.

Taylors on Central has been renovated a bit and the new version seems to have more space. They removed a back room and the dance floor is bigger (even though it includes a column) and there are now three flat-screen displays about from which videos can be shown. This is a lot more cool than the old white sheet that was used before. The play lists seem the same, and so are the bar prices. It seemed (almost) like the old Wake the Dead I came to love, though something was missing.

Later Jayne and Crystal arrived (but my photos using the new $50 camera weren't all successful). For most of the last half of WTD I was outside chatting to friends. Then Frank turned up and then I knew what had been missing. It's not Wake the Dead without frank (who's the "bouncer"). The ambulance turned up (and later the police after a young women freaked out in the ladies loo on drugs (or so I was told). Fun (but not too common).

I was crashing at Karl's and our group --

zelieq (Karl),

fiery_ichor (Sally), Alex, Geraldine, Patrick & myself -- left in two taxis. The one I was in seemed to detour needlessly but we all got there safely and most of us crashed until 10am. The day after was neat as well. We went to some shopping centre on Broadway and I got an Edward Gorey book for $5. Later I went back to Newcastle with Sally in her new car. The day went quick.