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This has been a busy week of going out for me. After hardly going out during the week at all for the last few months I've been out almost every night this week. Last night I went to the Oakford to see The Limes. The Limes are my little brother Pete's 'Winchester Band'. He went to uni there and had The Limes in Winch and The Pirates in Reading. Which was nice. I went to Winchester to see them once a few years ago and they were pretty shambolic but ok. Last night they were really good though.

It seems like The Limes is a bit of a musical collective. Pete hadn't played with 3 of last night's Limes before although they'd gigged together without him. Last night's line-up featured bongos, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, Anthony from the Hot Silk Pockets playing a snare drum resting on a coat, a tambourine and a couple of shaky bell things. One Lime, far right of the picture, was employed soley to shake a bell thing at a microphone. I was speculating that maybe on some other Limes songs he's the main guitarist and lead singer, but they just didn't do those songs yesterday.

The main 3 Limes seem to be Pete, The Legendary Jimmy Fish and Jez and musically they remind me a little bit of how Pete and the Pirates were when they set out. Chilled, folky, a bit country but with poppy vocals and long rambling instrumental sections that lazily drift in and out of time but somehow do so in a cool manner rather than a crap one. Last night they played a song they'd written 2 hours before the show which seemed to involve Pete leading the other band through the verse and chorus in a jam before they started playing and an audience member bringing the book with the lyrics to the front of stage for Pete to read in the verses. It was all great fun, really relaxed. A random party of office workers took time out from their cocktail and champagne consumption to bust some of the most incredible dad dancing moves you'll ever see! PaulC (Joey Ultra guitarist) and I made a pact to hang out more and just jam for fun.

So much to talk about going on today. It's Josaka's 8th Birthday at South St Arts Centre featuring The Race, Rebus, Audio Runway and What is: Protocol. A great line-up and I'm really looking forward to it. It's also Club Velocity at the Rising Sun Arts Centre has Libor Spacek, November Five and The Enigma Project. Every year they clash and it's always a tough choice to know what to go to. One year we (Sonic Undermind) were playing South St for the birthday party and Velocity had Bloc Party at the Arts Centre.