Deathboy / Spermwhale - Devonshire Arms, Camden, Fri 17th Jan 2003.

Arrived 6:45pm and the place was getting quite full already. Had an almost top-class social evening, marred only by the remains of the sore throat, without which I'd have gotten so many snogs. Hello to <lj user=[your name here]>. Nice to see arkady (who looks like a GOTH. A BOY one.) and sliding_loopz out again after many months. The camera got a good workout - forty shots taken, most of them not too bad. (I really must beat the computer into talking to it. Today.) ickle_yuki spent her time collapsed in a corner hanging out with mistressmalaise, who gets all the rock'n'roll points for having dragged herself along despite the broken ankle. I got remarkably pished on Newky Brown and Guinness (I must have been drunk to drink London Guinness) and stole lots of souls. A top night out.

Spermwhale are a three-piece - a boy singing, two girls on keyboards. They play unremarkable bleep. A few people up the front, lots down the back who thought they were utter pants. (ickle_yuki is reading over my shoulder and ranting about how shite they were and the absolute necessity of their rapid demise.) Decorative enough, but then if you're going to perform to a tape you might as well dress up for the occasion.

Deathboy managed to pack out their first headliner. Not that filling the Dev (capacity 150) is that hard. They're getting it together very nicely. They had people coming up to them after the gig that they not only didn't know personally, but that weren't even netgoths. Rok stah!

Sent a MoneyGram to ladylilithredcountess. The reason they're so expensive is they're fast. Just back from going down the shops with ickle_yuki ... for some reason, quite a lot of what we ended up buying was chocolate. I wonder how that happened.

gPhoto2 still can't see the sodding camera. Right now I'm going so far as to set up Wine with a view to running the camera software under that. (Bet it doesn't work.) How very annoying. ewtikins has allowed the use of her Windows box if necessary, though.

Update: I broke down and put the software on ewtikins' machine. Photos extracted. Might have something to put up in a day or two, depending how I am for time. Will still be giving the Wine approach a go, just for experience points.

Update: Show pics now up.