friday night, dean's birthday flat party thing. basically.. was good and felt so rough at the end. don't have much to say about it really, was a good night, some good chats and dances and etctc, met some neat new people, blah blah blah. didn't sleep all night, standardly, went home at 1:30ish the next day and instead of sleeping just sorta bummed around for a few hours.

then saturday night was THE SKINTS

at borderline. sorta felt like i wanted to die the whole night due to lack of sleep, appetite was also completely gone (went to macdonalds pre-borderline, would normally inhale a meal deal but ate a couple of chips and threw the rest away - never happens). didn't do much for the 3 support bands: dirty revolution, anti-vigilante and i think mouthwash were there again too. what i found strange were the groups of people there who genuinely physically looked about 12 or 13. i mean, i am judging 100% on appearance as they were also dressed in the sorta h&m stuff i used to wear in year 7.. but a few of them looked very out of place. managed to pick myself up for the skints set, still dying at stood to the left side of the stage with rosie and izzy who were keeping me company during my downer, whilst steph and holly were off at the front dancing their asses off. set wo awesome as usual, getting people moving, including the teeny bopper gothic chick in front of me who was sorta grinding with herself, didn't really know what was going on there. wasn't really right in the head to be dancing but i got myself moving for channel and bright girl, couple of headbangs there for the mid bit of contemplations are always necessary. would loved to have joined the pit but probably would have passed out. people in the crowd sung back every word, was pretty surreal.. can't begin to imagine what the band were feeling. especially for murderer which is one of the more well known tracks of the album.

when the set finished, the crowd and i chanted for an encore song.. and our demands were met with sociopath. (i never understood why sociopath isn't played normally, i've been to a bunch of skints shows to this date and sociopath hasn't been played once that i can remember. maybe this will be something that is changed in future since everyone seemed to want sociopath to be played and everyone went mental for it). kids jumping onto stage, completely lost jamie k and jonathan d for a bit.. marcia r was arm in arm with some guy wearing a penny-tee.. joshua wr was pushed to the back as people took over aha. think something happened to his guitar at one point as well, oops. was just a crazy end to a wicked set. we've been told some new material might be on its way but for the next few months the skints will be in europe so might not be seeing them again for a while. however, i've been informed about some reggae and apparently also dubby fest in the country in august where the skints are supposedly playing. can't for the life of me remember what the name of the fest is but i'mma find out cos it sounds sweet.

took 4 nights to get to writing about this gig/the weekend, i've been super lazy recently.. went out to the pub on monday night in the south-west and caught up with everyone from home-home. was still sorta on a massive downer so wasn't the most amazingly fun person but whatever, i'm fully rested and looking forward to many more nights chilled or unchilled this easter break. back to e1 tomorrow..

see you on the other side, peace xx