the state of my memory

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'another dense white fog which cleared off to cloudless blue and brilliant sunshine at 11.'  so reports kilvert from this day in 1870.

meanwhile horsemouth has been up to the wen to see the charlie parr gig - so how did it go? 

he was due to meet mike in the cock tavern at 7pm. anxiously horsemouth peered in the windows but couldn't see him at shortly after 7 myk rolled up (having walked up broadway market that hell of gentrification). they went inside and there was mike - they stayed for one and then headed over to the venue the moth club. 

the support act was two white cranes. she had a great voice and a few songs about grand designs.  she had a great voice capable of doing a variety of things horsemouth thought. and then before horsemouth could get to the toilets it was charlie parr and somebody whose name horsemouth didn't catch playing percussion. 

horsemouth has to admit it was a great set - there was the hit (cheap wine) and a robert johnson ('here comes the blues walkin' like a man'). with a solid stomp on it people actually danced. there was a lot of audience chatter that seemed to spontaneously rise up after the fourth song but horsemouth wasn't too bothered, the soundsystem was good (at least at the back where horsemouth was). 

he bumped into jo and a friend (they had won tickets or something). before they were all turfed out to make way for a northern soul night after the gig himself and myk went up for a chat. mike was outside already so they met up briefly. horsemouth (by this point) had recovered from yesterday's hangover and was calling for more beer but the others were more sensible. mike had stuff to do the next day, horsemouth headed off in search of a falafel wrap, myk got the bus back with the first two rows singing psychokiller. 

the title of the blogpost comes from horsemouth's inability to remember charlie parr's name when jo asked him who the band were. 

here the weather is warmer than it is back home. in a bit horsemouth will go for a quick wander to patrol the neighbourhood and then he's away back off to the wilds.