Sold out?

Look liek the rest of Manchester also knows about the comedy festival. Tried to get into the City Life comedy finals last night in Deansgate, only to be told to sod off as we had no pre-reserved tickets.

In Rich's desperate attempt to see some comedy, we then headed to the Frog and Bucket. Just 2 people from the front of the queue, we now get told they're sold out too. Bollocks.

Ended up in Dry Bar with some live music from unknown indie bands. It turned out that these were a comedy experience in their own right. One band consisted of two bearded men, one of which had an uncanny resemblance to Bernard Black from Black Books. They then played a 20 minute song of guitar noise and primal screaming similar to a rhesus monkey escaping from their lungs.

Apart from another one who played no instruments and just waved hands around in front of a TV while changing the demo track on his keyboard every 30 seconds, they wern't too bad. I even bought a couple of singles to "support indie music" or some guff like that.

I'm going to regret it.