Hello everyone!
I intended doing this a little earlier, but I've not been well today
probably because I am as sick as a parrot for not having gone to the YMO gig as detailed above...
Anyway, here's an overview of what happened at the meetup. There were nine of us in total - at this point I hope no one minds me using their real names - me, Siobhan (Astronaut), Laura (Steerpike), Stefan (Suki), Paul (Karnsculpture), Paul's partner Tom, Sarah who was a penpal of Paul's back in the day, Sarah's friend Brian, and Kevin who is on Pioneers.
We went to the Japanese restaurant just as Paul Weller was leaving, which led to a lot of mirth along the lines of 'is he part of the group as well?'. Paul outlined the details of the virtual concert but was very modest saying it was just a 'daft idea'.
After that we went to Sister Ray record shop and then to a pub for lots of discussion, obviously! Some people had organised other things to do, and from about seven o'clock it was me, Siobhan and Laura - we've now christened ourselves the 3 JBK-ites
- till midnight.
On Sunday Siobhan and I walked the ENTIRE LENGTH of High Street Kensington as a kind of pilgrimage. Next time we'll do a bit more research into Japan-related locations though!
In all it was great to meet everyone, of course!
Some of us were talking about why people in the UK hadn't wanted to come and I think it would be very useful if people gave us feedback.
We wondered if some people thought that we would only meet for lunch and then that would be it, but it didn't happen that way, so I thought it was worth making that clear. People would have been welcome to bring their partners or friends and make a weekend of it.
Comments and questions are welcome...
Natasha