It’s a great little shop crammed with cool stuff and the main man, Bill, was nice enough to give me some goodies in exchange for the hush-hush cd’s and videos I’d brought them. I slept late, walked round Hampstead for awhile then went off to the outskirts of London to visit Minus Zero Records, home of all things pop. Pat Fish, Max Eider, chins, Lotion shirt. My surviving notes begin the day before the festival… I’d been to London a few days back in 1993 but this time, I had more time to see some sights, hang out with Comes With A Smile‘s Matt Dornan (above), meet Pat Fish and Max Eider after a fantastic Jazz Butcher duo show ( click for JBC tale) and wander a bit. I’d never seen a hands-free phone device before and I thought he was nuts for a quick second. We went out to dinner my first night there and Josh excused himself to make a phonecall, then proceeded to go to a corner and talk to himself. Off I went to London, where I stayed in Hampstead Heath with olde highschool friend Vivienne and her husband Josh. It was summer so it definitely wasn’t the trip there where I saw snow fall for the first time at age 28. Judging by the few photos I took in New York, it appears that we went cd shopping, ate at Tom’s Diner and saw Detroit Rock City. So I finally planned a trip to England and Scotland with stops in NYC on the way to and from. While the lineup wasn’t as amazing as it had been through most of the decade, there were still plenty of favorites on the bill plus bands I’d never heard of with names like Doves, Orgy and Coldplay that I might learn to love….or not. #Some friendly charlatans rar file how to#As a lifelong Anglophile, I’d always wanted to go to a British festival and be in a sea of people who knew how to jump and sing in unison to bands most people in America didn’t know or care about. She came to visit San Diego first and soon we were trading off turns visiting each other in between long phone sessions. In 1999, I was looking for any excuse to get out to the east coast, as I’d started dating Katie, who I met online while she was attending Columbia University in New York City. Looks like there’s quite a bit missing. Let’s see how my memory is…. The notes were scrawled in a daily planner a few days after the festival while I was in Scotland. I recently came across some handwritten notes I wrote about going to the 1999 Reading Festival in England and thought it might be fun to share.
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