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So yesterday, at a gig, I discovered that my last LJ post tagged "gig" was January 2016. Err... Last year was a weird one, on account of not being able to walk for much of it, but I managed more gigs than that. I think my post-fu has been weak.

So! I'm attempting to lurch back into it. Not least because I won't have the least what bands I've seen otherwise.

( So, to Whitby to see the Goths! )

Argh. Blogging has fallen out of the to-do list again. I went off to Whitby, like I do in April, and forgot to write about it. This time it was a double-length affair to celebrate the festival's 21st birthday.

Today I've been trying to produce the sensible, grown-up reviews which I (along with mrph) promised to davefish for some mysterious web project of his. Sadly, it's a long time since I've tried to write sensible, grown-up reviews and I've left it too long. (Also, I made notes only on opinions, assuming I'd be able to look up details like line-up after the fact. Bloody hell, bands write a lot of crap about themselves, but rarely give you the actual facts. One band had a Wikipedia page (I checked!) when I was in Whitby, but now does not. Bloody disappearing curated free encyclopediae with standards.)

Anyway, for my own reference in future, here is a table in hyper-abbreviated form:

( Review Table. Not printable. )

The list of text messages I sent and received in Whitby seems to divide neatly into two categories. First, logical information indicating which pub, cake shop or location someone was or was not in. Second, non-sequiturs about cheese.

This probably sums up the weekend quite well.

It's that time of year again. At least, it's one of the many times of year when I bugger off to Whitby. This one was goth flavour.

( Friday. No cheese at all. )

( Friday's bands )

( Saturday. Just enough cheese. )

( Saturday's bands )

( Sunday. Too much cheese. )

Still, in summary: brief but fun, good company as always, some decent bands.

( footnotes )

So, another Spring, another Whitby Goth Weekend...

( Friday )

( Saturday )

( Sunday )

( Elephants, Geodes and Poncing )

And so, to Whitby once more. Because I like a challenge, I left my phone at home and decided instead to rely on serendipity and my psychic powers to find people and, indeed, locate the extremely well-hidden house I was sharing with davefish, keris, ceb and damerell.

(This is not true, of course. I left it behind by mistake. I'm not quite sure how far away from London I'd have to be before I decided it wasn't worth going back for my phone, but can provide as a data-point that north of Coventry is too far.)

( Friday )

( Saturday )

( Sunday )

I was away up in Whitby last weekend, playing with all the little gothlings. As well as my usual Spa-ing partners, keris and davefish, I was sharing a house with ceb, damerell, waylay and Ian (WIVPOLJ). In my new-found capacity as Goddess of Domestic Disasters[*] I managed to cause one of the showers to leak into the kitchen and the dishwasher to blow a fuse within the first day or so.

With a few exceptions, I didn't do a very good job of catching up with people this weekend, so the rest of my write-up is ( all about the bands )

Been to Whitby for the goth weekend again...

( Bands )

( Cake )

( People )

The briefest of reviews presented in the form of an awards ceremony:

( The WHITBYS )

Once again, I'm back from Whitby goth weekend. I seem to have managed to do even less of significance than ever this time: talked to some people and listened to some bands. Which was all rather nice, actually. WGW contains some lovely people whom I only see twice a year.

( The bands - a summary which covers all the important angles but contains no information )