It's one o'clock and time for lunch...

I’ve not watched Seven ages of Rock yet, so you’ll have to wait. However, Friday night was fairly awesome. Four of us turned up at Fibbers to witness the last ever gig of The Nicoles. Shame! I turned up at 20:00 so I missed the first band, Milk Round Brown, so I can’t comment on them, sorry chaps. As I settled into the first few sips of Worthington, on came The Becoming Suits, and I can’t say I was terribly impressed, although the lead singer sounded a bit like a very young Byran Ferry. Next upon the stage... Limousine and a different kettle of kittens altogether. A five piece from Blackpool, I really enjoyed this band, in fact I even parted with cash and bought the album and single. Fantastic. Personally, I think they sound a bit like 100 Reasons, but they cite their influences as; Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Motley Crue, U2, Oceansize, Elbow, AC/DC, Faith no More, Jeff Buckley, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, The Who, YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO, R.E.M, Queen, Beatles. That can’t be bad, can it?

By this time Fibs was absolutely heaving, it must have been nearly at capacity, and the band we has all come to see, The Nicoles. On the verge of a tour, on the verge of greatness, on the verge just outside my house.... they split, and this was the farewell gig. The crowd loved it and sang along with all the songs. We squeezed about half way through the throng but stopped just short of the jumping, seething mass of youngsters. This was probably the best performance that I’ve seen them give, and for their two encore songs, they invited the audience to shout out what they wanted the band to play, Xbox and Food and Ambulance, firm favourites with everyone.

The pubs were still open when we left so we chanced our arms at the Old White Swan, just in case Hazzard County still existed. Sadly the Hazzards weren’t there but many thanks to Mike who stumbled across this link http://www.myspace.com/hazzco where I can find out when they will be playing next (13 July at the Old White Swan). Meanwhile, back in the Bat Cave.... we had NZ Dave and Simon Snaize on vocals and acoustics, a chap on a double bass, one on a snare drum, an a lady on violin. They were actually pretty good, but I got a bit distracted by three lovely Geordie lasses. Oops.

Sunday was the French Grand Prix and a jolly exciting way to spend the afternoon. The Ferrari new aero package was enough to give them the edge over the McLarens and Raikkonen zipped past P2 Hamiliton and even managed to get the better of Massa to grab the trophy. Alonso battled bravely back and managed to nick 2 points, even Button scraped one. Albers dragged a fuel hose out of the pits and was forced to retire. I can’t think why Hamilton was on a three stop strategy when everyone else was on two. With a pit stop taking about 27 seconds he would have been in much closer contention with Raikkonen and Massa, but hey ho, he did get a podium finish and he’s still well in the lead in the driver’s table. Can’t wait for next week!