After an action-packed weekend, my telephone interview with MyEmployer this morning went really well I think. With a bit of luck I should be heading to their office in Winchester for an office interview soon, fingers crossed! The job seems really interesting, a Graduate Developer role in their Smart Devices division mainly doing Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60 development.
After last minute dramas with their tickets, Special and Katie managed to make it along to the Astoria to see Chicane on Friday with me and Georgie. In pretty small & raw venue, the crowd gradually grew and the atmosphere with it. Support from Futureshock got most of the crowd going but we weren't particularly enamoured with them. The fact they were using a Powerbook to part-power their set was cool though. Chicane took the stage at about 9ish and performed a mixture of old classics and new songs from the forthcoming 'Easy to Assemble' album, which was due out before the gig but has been put back to a 2004 release. The Bongo dude was pretty amazing and the new Mark Morrison-lookalike vocalist gave a good performance. Most of the female vocals were drowned out by the rest of the musicians which took the shine off the performance. Only a handful of the songs really got the crowd going crazy, including the encore of Don't Give Up, and the overall performance wasn't up to the exceptional standard of Faithless at Brixton in April '02, our previous venture up to London. Overall, an enjoyable night and good music, and we're now looking forward to Moloko at Brixton Academy on November 22nd.
After crashing at my brother's flat near Tower Bridge, Saturday afternoon we hit the shops of Oxford Street where Georgie completed her foxy outfit for the Netball social on Wednesday, and Special found a rather nice coat for those cold winter walks to work! The weekend was topped off with a bit of a sparkie reunion in Woking at Emily & Gerald's new house, where Jimbo, Justin and Simon and I enjoyed a fantastic spread of home-made Chinese food. Mmm :) A pub quiz with Georgie's pals in Walton was the icing on the proverbial cake, and if it weren't for a couple of career-quiz teams we would have stood a pretty good chance of grabbing a top spot.
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