One dazzling evening with the Wildblanket team and Brenda, we headed off for the Angel station to get to see Plakka at their last minute gig.
Being starving as we were, we searched for this french restaurant called "Trouvaille " or something like that which I had been in before and coudln't find it, so I asked 2 very polite and pleasant French men in Nicolas Wine shop who directed us to another couple of French restaurants a bit further up the road. They were very helpful.
As we walked away we suddenly bumped into Rodizio Rico which is a Brazillian restaurant which also is on Westbourne Grove, and which is famous for "don't eat a week before going but eat for 3 month once you are there" type of restaurant.
But careful, it was not a Rif Raf crappy buffet restaurant, it s fine Brazilian cuisine restaurant which proposes a vegetarian buffet including many types of vegetables like Cassava root and salads and lamb stew with beans and chicken wings and fish cutlets and cheese breads and mango chutney, mint, pesto,mayonnaise, any kind of sauce you can find in Europe and the world. It is a very posh buffet.
Anyway we didn't go for the meat barbecue option(they bring skewers of meat of very varried styles to your table every 5 minutes even when you are eating your desssert: they are still there asking if you may want a piece of beef fillet..)
The vegetarian option with the lamb stew suited us fine and we also ordered a local cocktail which was very strong.
We walked to the venue on time, BK13 was outside texting us the time of their performance, and noticed us very nicely.
We went in and the band was their usual very welcoming and friendly selves, as Stop Thief, another band, was playing. Stop thief were good but sounded like someone rather that I had not heard of but Neil had.
Plakka went on stage, 5 of them instead of their normal 6 (the keyboard player is gone for more adventures around the world, forgetting his keyboard) so Plakka started their set with mmhhh... a song which sounded wonderful even though the keys werre definitely missing and needed. Their set was nice and long but we did not hear Wisper and my favourite Disco song due to lack of keyboard.
The sound was good, BK having a few problems with his monitors but what seemed a very efficient sound man fixed them very soon.
We left them eventually after 11 and went back home, all excited, particularly Brenda who had not seen them play before and was very taken by the music and the performers.
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