Mega weekender

A few weeks after moving into London, Josh found a punk show on the internet that was going on a few miles from our house and we decided we should go. I Google mapped the route and had no fucking clue about where the venue was or how we would get there, but apparently there was a bus that went there from our house and we just had to walk a little at the other end. Despite this only being a few years ago, no one had internet on their phones and I didn’t know anyone with a sat nav. if you were lost, you were lost. The second we got off the bus in Stoke Newington, I was lost and I realised that all I knew about London was a handful of very specific routes from one place to the next. If forced to deviated from them routes, I was immediately lost. I might was well have been in Bumblecomethropplewaite in Norfolk*. I had this horrible unnerving feeling that I would never know my around the city or understand the bus maps and would constantly just need to follow Josh around and do whatever he did. That feeling lasted about 2 months.

Well the show was kind of strange, but Mega Games 2 played that night and they were pretty cool so we gassed with them a bit about playing shows and going to fest and all that shit that people with guitars and beards like to talk about and we sort of kept in touch and ended up playing some of our earlier shows with them in peoples houses and odd venues to people who quite often didn’t seem to get what we were doing. That all seems a long time ago now.

Anyway, The Mega Games 2 was really awesome, just a guitar and melodica and some rough recordings of great songs. They are now a full band though, with bass and drums and are just called Mega Games now. We’re doing a weekender of shows with them in September and I am stoked – it seems like we should have done this ages ago. Have a listen to their stuff, its rad. You can get a record free here: Killyourown.co.uk Or listen online here: www.myspace.com/themegagamestwo


The dates were playing are:

10 September - Hectors House in Brighton
11 September - 1 in 12 Club, Bradford (All day benefit show)
12 September - The Marquee, Norwich

Come check it out yeah?

Dan

*That place doesn’t exist.