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We went on our very own Daniel Robson's recommendation to see Bo-Peep at the Dublin Castle last night.  Don't fall for their  ‘butter wouldn’t melt’ looks this is a very dynamic, furious and frantic Japanese trio. More vicious riffs than a pack of starving polecats. Their Ramones back to back style delivery is giving us speedy three minute slices of rock gold. Bo-Peep won over the audience easily, and even in this low-key Camden support slot they were the stars of the evening.

‘What I like about Japanese bands is that they don’t have normal arrangements’ one of the new Bo-Peep fans in the house said. Damned straight. Right up on stage there were the oddest arrangements of very fast chunks of guitar. The songs often twisted their mood half way through, or was that a different song? I have no idea I am ignorant, but ignorance is bliss. Bo-Peep are bliss.

So out of the Dublin Castle and into the fire. The Boogaloo was between me and home so I decided to pop in, hoping to catch Gemma Ray Ritual who had been playing. Alas a full house and happy band were packing down. The landlord Gerry O'Boyle was waiting to shut down the shop and was headed into to town with Shane Macgowan. ‘Fancy coming along?’ Gerry said.

10 minutes from going home and having an earlyish night, I definitely turned the wrong way out of the door, or was it the right one? In the taxi down to Soho we received a text, pointing us to the Key West hotel in Shepherd’s Bush as there was a knees up underway. I have no idea what kind of shindig beyond a hotel lobby there was, but the band celeb count was definitely higher than civilians. I stood out as being someone who was not a public figure. 'Er, I need to find someone to talk to so I can talk without thinking I am talking to them because of the decades of influencial music they have released'. Ok this guy. ‘what do you do?’ ‘we are all down here on a hairdressing competition’ he replied.A Fife hairdressing competition team’s booze stash and a couple of £12 Gin & Tonics later…