Friday 4 April – A rather cosmopolitan feel to our Friday this week. There’s me and A of course, Yorkshire passports all stamped and in order. H is across from Holland, and we were also joined by South Afrikaan G, plus the mad Russian Legs Elanavic and her Norwegian trawlerman friend. I arrived at The Terrace just as York covers band $kint were about to fire up.
Skint (I’ll spell them the normal way now) consist of Rich Graves (Lead Vocals), Stewart King (Lead/Rhythm Guitars), Ian Moore (Drums/Percussion), Gav Cator (Rhythm/Lead Guitars), and Paul Teasdale (Bass/Vocals). They did covers including: Snow Patrol (Chasing Cars), Placebo (Every You Every Me), The Hives (Hate to Say I Told You So), Oasis (Supersonic), Arctic Monkeys (I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor), Electric Six (Gay Bar), Kings of Leon (Molly Chambers), Kaiser Chiefs (I Predict a Riot), Green Day (Boulevard of Broken Dreams), The Automatic (Monster), The Strokes (Last Night), The Buzzcocks (Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)), and more...
They were stonkingly good as evidenced by the abundance of crazy dancing people. Crazy John, your tips for the Grand National were rubbish. Crazy Jackie, say hello to Janie. Crazy Fran, hope you get your Masters in HR (clever lady).
I was looking forward to a sports filled remainder of the weekend but was sadly disappointed with the WBA v Pompey match. Even though Pompey is my birthplace, it was a poor showing by the Premier side and the single goal they scored was a blatant handball. The Barnsley v Cardiff match didn’t sound much better. An early goal from Cardiff putting the kybosh on Barnsley’s cup hopes and pretty much stifling the rest of match. Please, let’s not talk about the F1. Hamilton was slow off the start and quickly dropped back down the field. On lap 1 he seemed to make contact with the rear of Alonso, possibly compromising the handling of the car, to the extent that on lap 2 he mistimed a turn and ripped the front wing off when his car climbed over the back of Alonso’s. Nil points for Hamilton then. Meanwhile, up the front, Kubica had started from pole position, but the Ferrari brothers managed to drag him back down to third place by the finish of the race. Still, Doctor Who came back on our screens so all was not lost.
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