manchester central - 15 Dec 2007

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:45 pm**

Eckhard wrote:I think I will remember this gig for ever, because I got myself the mother of all flus. I'm still having about 39 C fever, but hey what a night

luggage lost on the way out,

get back home with a flu :oops:

are you always that lucky ?? :lol:

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:47 pm**

PADDYgoesDUTCH wrote:
Eckhard wrote:I think I will remember this gig for ever, because I got myself the mother of all flus. I'm still having about 39 C fever, but hey what a night

luggage lost on the way out,
get back home with a flu

are you always that lucky ??

Had I already mentioned that the elevator in the hotel had broken down on saturday and that my room was on the 5th floor? :roll:

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:57 pm**

Eckhard wrote:
PADDYgoesDUTCH wrote:
Eckhard wrote:I think I will remember this gig for ever, because I got myself the mother of all flus. I'm still having about 39 C fever, but hey what a night

luggage lost on the way out,
get back home with a flu

are you always that lucky ??

Had I already mentioned that the elevator in the hotel had broken down on saturday and that my room was on the 5th floor?

Well, look on the bright side. At least you didn't have any heavy luggage to drag up and down the stairs with you.

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:00 pm**

Please don't slaughter me for this but anyone know what the track is that they play before they come on.

Sounds like the Clash?

Saw the gig on Saturday night...excellent.

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:02 pm**

Anonymous wrote:Please don't slaughter me for this but anyone know what the track is that they play before they come on.

Sounds like the Clash?

Saw the gig on Saturday night...excellent.

"Straight To Hell" by, yes, The Clash.

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:05 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
Well, look on the bright side. At least you didn't have any heavy luggage to drag up and down the stairs with you.

Good point.

That's what the concierge said as well - when he was not trying to cheer me up with new assumptions where my luggage might have landed ( like Kabul, Baghdad, Shanghai, Pyongyang )

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:23 pm**

Eckhard wrote:I think I will remember this gig for ever, because I got myself the mother of all flus. I'm still having about 39 C fever, but hey what a night

Me too, although my fever was nowhere near as high as yours :shock:

So I took a lot of medicine the next day and dragged myself to the Brixton gig anyway.

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:57 pm**

strummercalling wrote:Me too, although my fever was nowhere near as high as yours

So I took a lot of medicine the next day and dragged myself to the Brixton gig anyway.

Wow! That's real commitment!

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:08 pm**

Eckhard wrote:I think I will remember this gig for ever, because I got myself the mother of all flus. I'm still having about 39 C fever, but hey what a night

Ah, you foreigners just cannot hack a mild autumn evening in good old Manchester!!
What you should have done was come a little earlier and got yourself acclimatised by spending some time in dear old Oldham - it's always a good bit colder up here than Manchester, even though we are only seven miles away!

Joking aside, it was bloody cold on Saturday night as we found walking to the venue coatless :shock:

Word of warning for Philip here - if you are coming to watch Forest at Oldham on Boxing Day wrap up well mate, it's not considered the coldest ground in the country for nothing, and hope it's not another 5-0 drubbing! :lol:

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:32 pm**

What always surprised me during these last three winterly trips to Manchester was large number of guys in T-Shirts and women in mini-skirts.

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:11 pm**

Eckhard wrote:What always surprised me during these last three winterly trips to Manchester was large number of guys in T-Shirts and women in mini-skirts.

yeah, amazing, saw the same in Belfast the other week

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:35 pm**

Eckhard wrote:What always surprised me during these last three winterly trips to Manchester was large number of guys in T-Shirts and women in mini-skirts.

It's de rigeur in Northern towns from Nottingham upwards. It's to show they're not big Southern softies. By Newcastle they're practically naked in winter.

I have a New York friend who finds it more absorbing than anything Manhattan has to offer and has been known to sit on a bench in Market Square (Nottingham) for hours on a Saturday night, casting disbelieving looks (and the occasional guffaw at a particularly unflattering "look") as the parade passes by.

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:40 pm**

I seemed to think it was a football thingy, but on saturday I walked round Manchester in just a tee-shirt. I assume testosterone and masculine pride kept me warm. Glad I did, hotter than the sun in the G-Mex.

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:04 pm**

strummercalling wrote:
Eckhard wrote:I think I will remember this gig for ever, because I got myself the mother of all flus. I'm still having about 39 C fever, but hey what a night

Me too, although my fever was nowhere near as high as yours

So I took a lot of medicine the next day and dragged myself to the Brixton gig anyway.

Erm, I think I may have been responsible for this.

Remember I had it a few days before I met you guys?

Sorry. :oops:

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:06 pm**

Heather wrote:
strummercalling wrote:
Eckhard wrote:I think I will remember this gig for ever, because I got myself the mother of all flus. I'm still having about 39 C fever, but hey what a night

Me too, although my fever was nowhere near as high as yours

So I took a lot of medicine the next day and dragged myself to the Brixton gig anyway.

Erm, I think I may have been responsible for this.
Remember I had it a few days before I met you guys?
Sorry.

So you're the one I caught this damned gunk from!

I keep hearing about these Internet Viruses, but this just seems to be going to far.

manchester central - 15 Dec 2007

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