A couple of days at home at home was useful but gruelling. I have put up pictures of 14 bands by the end of yesterday. So it's nice and relaxing to pop out to the Bull and Gate. It's some sort of competition. Frankly band competitions do not greatly impress me. It's like wine competitions, there is nothing really to win and quite a lot of face to lose. The best you can hope for is to be able to able to add a logo to your myspace. Will anyone be impressed by that? No, not really, promoters (and record companies) are impressed by people you can through the door.
Tonight a band called Ill 'a' noize seem to know how to get people through the door. I think they do have some edge. I took a few pitures and will look at their myspace.

Kaitee Page seems to be strangley dressed (she has been on a brief American tour and maybe her outfit would be cool there, in Camden we don't dress like that). There seem less violin songs in the set and this is, at least superficially, confirmed by my pictures. Pity, I like the double violin bits best.

It's a strange evening in Camden. As I leave the tube the road is blocked off to traffic by police tape.I assumed it was an accident or something similar. I get to the Dublin Castle without impediment. Again (see last Sunday) the soundchecks are still in progress. Whilst London Pride is available to pass the time, I'm concerned that too much beer  will lead to me falling over before the night is through; also if things run too late here I will not get into my second gig of the evening (where I am planning to see the headline band at the other end of Camden). I have time for a second pint before they finish the soundchecks and let us in.

I fancy the lights are a bit brighter than I am used to at the Dublin Castle- is it because it's Saturday night? Although they are a bit yellow/orange there is a definite improvement in overall light levels.

I take a few snaps of Kaitee Page, whose set is good and I am pleased I decidedto drop in on my way to the Enterprise. It's very nice to run into Marcy, a sound person who is a friend of Little Fish and Reverse E.

I will resist any impule to slip in anything about fiddling whilst Camden burns.

I have a confession to make - the brick background you see around you is stolen from Kaitee's myspace page. But when I visited her page I found more than an appealing background. How I came to find Kaitee Page's music was a story I didn't tell when I commented on my visit to see her at the Half Moon in Putney. An internet radio station (in Scotland I think) had posted a comment on Little Fish saying that they were on their playlist; I thought it worth investigating the people who were showing signs of good taste and seeing who else they were playing. There I found Kaitee Page who is a classically trained violinist and plays both piano and violin during her set, sometimes in the same songs ( I don't think she plays both at the same time!). I usually enjoy bands who include violins and Kaitee Page has 2 - plus a normal array of Drums, bass and guitar.

The Half Moon in Putney is a pleasant venue, it's a bit off the beaten track (well its just south of the river). It offers a decent (and cheapish) pint of Young's bitter. There are lights although they were strangely positioned and somehow it seems traditional that anyone accoustic should have to play in semi-darkness; maybe to allow the audience to doze off.

Monday night's is billed as a showcase, which means that bands are only allowed to play 3 songs. To travel to see one band play only 3 songs doen't make much sense, so most of the people appear to either regulars or close friends and family of the bands.

I ventured down on a bit of a whim.