The gig in Kew was actually quite hard work, a fun lovely crowd, but my vague comedown/hangover sleepiness couple with shit sandwich hunger meant I wasn’t on top form. But I opened to a lovely crowd and perked myself up a bit with what turned out to be quite a good (yet very vague) set.
But then made my excuses and left.
I’d managed to use the Silverlink train service form Caledonian Road to get all the way down to Kew for free. The ticket machines at Caledonian Road were bust, and the gates were open at the other end. I was hoping to repeat the trick on the way home.
The silverlink is officially the shittest of all train things in the world ever (shitter even than those wooden ones you get in the windows of an Early Learning Centre) so despite getting to the station 5 minutes after the train was supposed to have left I found myself having to wait a further twenty for it.
I sat down on a bench, as is my wont.
Then an Australasian got off a another train. He had sandals on and one of those big hair wigs, and was drunken. He’d been to see the rugby. Sat next to me on the bench was a kiwi, and on the bench to the left was a drunken British person.
I know fuck all about rugby except that it’s watched by idiots. Three of these were surrounding me now, not in a violent way. But just in a having a conversation way, of which I was stuck in the middle after being said “hello” to and me responding, I couldn’t just get up and walk off. So then ensued these three cunts talking about rugby and everything for the full twenty minutes. Me thinking I ought to pitch in, but having nothing t say and feeling awful.
Then one did that hilarious thing of looking at me and saying, “shut up” (the joke being that I wasn’t talking, so telling me to shut up was actually redundant…I heart Australians). I felt squirmish, only half an hour ago I’d had a room of forty people hanging off my every word and being rewarded with laughter. Now three twats were making me feeling like I was nine.
The train came, I ran down the other end and fell asleep.
But got home for free.