{"id":718,"date":"2004-12-21T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=718"},"modified":"2004-12-21T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T13:56:00","slug":"718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/718\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Awash with beer<\/b>
It looks like I’m doing my bit to keep the UK at the top of the World Festive Boozer’s list, with a week-long binge that shows no sign of abating.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, I was quaffing wildly at my club, Offline after the night turned out to be a good ‘un. Friday was a long night at the Albert followed by the Dogstar.<\/p>\n

Saturday was the Actionettes at the Water Rats, Kings Cross, and Sunday was an afternoon ‘Christmas Tea’ at my flat (for ‘tea’ read ‘booze’) followed by a night at the Albert watching local band, The Messengers of God’. And then the Dogstar.<\/p>\n

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Monday, I was determined to have a night in, but an email from IanW offering a free ticket for The Pogues at the Academy soon put paid to that idea. And seeing as it was the Pogues, it just wouldn’t be right to remain sober.<\/p>\n

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And what a fine show it was! The Academy was rammed and despite Shane McGowan’s appearance to the contrary, he was in fine voice all night.<\/p>\n

And only the most hard-nosed grouch could fail to be moved by their show-stopping rendition of “Fairytale of New York”. Fabulous gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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