I want to be anarchy

[venta]

Every so often, I encounter something that makes me happy to be alive and sharing the world with it.

Last weekend, ChrisC and I trotted down to the Luminaire on Sunday. That in itself isn't unusual; the Luminaire is a fine venue and well worth patronising. However! We went there in the daytime. Even (whisper it) in the morning.

Now your average club does not open at 10am on a Sunday. Mind you, your average club looks unutterably seedy in daylight, which the Luminaire does not. Just for the day its doors were thrown open, and for the princely sum of 20p you could go for a rummage in the recordstore.co.uk jumble sale.

Which was nice. I picked up a Chumbawumba album, a couple of DVDs, a Ministry of Sound top and some hardback notebooks (all brand new) for less than a fiver. But what had really drawn me out so early on a Sunday was the promise of a punk rock cake stall. Oh, and a tombola. But primarily it was the cake stall.

True enough, it was there. Best of all, it was fantastically cheap and sold genuinely punk rock cakes. They had fairy cakes with the anarchy A iced on them. And skull and cross bones cakes. There was a banana and walnut loaf sporting a fetching array of safety pins and a big pile of chocolate muffins, each with its own flaked almond mohawk. And cups of squash at 5p a time.

Hurrah for ridiculous, twee, unexpected and delightful ideas that take place in nice venues.

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Cake!

And they all sound awesome.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

That sounds wonderful; I'd love to see a photo of the bepinned banana and walnut loaf - which sounds like something out of, I suppose, Never Mind the Battenburg - but the others would have to do a lot to live up to my mental images of them. :-D

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I didn't take any pictures of them. But I can assure you that they tasted nice :)