After missing them tour almost as many times as I saw Bluetip play, I finally managed to see Retisonic at the Barfly in Camden Town. They put on a good show and I managed to fire off a few photos from the front, but as it was pretty packed in there (the Barfly is fairly small) and I was bunched up against the right speaker, this meant two things: my left ear was ringing really fucking bad by the time their set finished, and I didn’t do too well on the photo front in terms of quantity. I did manage to catch this moment though.

Cursive headlined not long after that and I moved out of position in order to drink a few warm glasses of Grolsch somewhere near the back. They aren’t really the same band as they were when I saw them a few years back in Manchester (circa Domestica) so I wasn’t all that excited about hearing them play but I’m actually glad I did. They sounded good, put on a good show and played one or two tracks I like so I was happy. The beer helped as well though, I’m sure.

The tube journey back out of Camden was pretty much as interesting as the gig itself, with a championship greyhound gracing the presence of one tube station (or so the owner claimed - Scanman would have had to have been there to verify) and then some film school kid ‘entertaining’ the cabin of a tube I was on with a selection of slides he’d drawn for some project. If there’s one thing London isn’t, it’s dull….