"Kieron?"

It took eight years, but I finally met Kieron Gillen, fellow Kenickie-obsessive/videogame journalist/writer of comics/boy, he's a busy man. I was in two minds as to whether to go and say hello, but I decided to try and skip past the shy thing for once (possibly not helped by essentially wanting to be KG all through my university career, but hey, there are worse role models. And I didn't have the hair for Julian Rignell). And hurrah! We talked both before and after the Johnny Boy concert. There's more to come about that, but most of it will probably end up being part of the Static review that I'll be writing in the next couple of days. Suffice it to say that I think we're both completely mystified as to why 15 Minutes is not in its 15th week residency in the charts. I'm currently entertaining fantasies of breaking into the feed for the final TOTP and giving over their final few minutes to a performance of You Are The Generation… Still, maybe they'll garner some success in Japan.

Anyway, that was the end of the day, but the other parts were just as filled with happenings and crazy events, from the much-better-than-you'd-think combination of strawberry and beer to the consideration of how custard can affect house prices. Erm, yes. And pirates. Because no afternoon is complete without pirates. Arr. I met up with Forest Pines, his friend Miranda, and Kate from Shimura Curves at the Sun & Splendour in Notting Hill for a football-free afternoon of chat and drink (also joined by Ed a little later on in the day). From there, it was off! off! to the Shimura Curves concert, clutching our groupie cards that had each been kissed individually. You don't get that sort of detail from most bands, do you?

I have to say that I felt like a hipster in the Notting Hill Arts Club, Or more appropriately, an interloper in hipster-ville. But it was fun - 'Ver Curves combine the fun of 1960s girl-groups and dronerock. It shouldn't work. But it really does. I hope you'll all know the words to Noyfriend by the end of the year!

So that was a little round-up of my day in London. I would post pictures, but…er…I forgot to take any. Sorry. Perhaps next time!