The First Big Weekend-Arab Strap

[ti:The First Big Weekend] [ar:Arab Strap] [al:The Week Never Starts Round Here] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap [00:09.17]So that was the first big [00:10.15]Weekend of the summer [00:10.73] [00:13.92]Starts Thursday as usual [00:14.84]With the canteen quiz and again [00:16.50]No-one wins the big cash prize [00:18.09] [00:19.38]Later I do my sound Bloke routine [00:20.85]By approaching Gina's [00:21.97]New boyfriend to say [00:22.85]That he shouldn't feel that [00:23.83]There's any animosity between us [00:24.98] [00:25.57]Then I even go and make peace [00:26.72]With her Shouldn't have bothered [00:29.60] [00:34.20]Then on Friday night we [00:35.08]Went through to the Arches [00:36.28] [00:46.27]There was only one car going [00:47.19]So some of us had to get the train [00:48.44] [00:49.32]We got through quite late [00:50.08] [00:50.91]Then we went to a pub to take the gear [00:52.35] [00:53.35]There was no problems getting in [00:54.42]We saw some others waiting down [00:55.40]The front of the queue so [00:56.42]We skipped in [00:56.86] [00:57.74]It was a good night - everyone [00:59.35]Was nutted and I ended up [01:00.53]Dancing with some blonde girl [01:01.45] [01:02.68]I thought she had been [01:03.50]Quite pretty until last night when [01:04.76]Matthew informed me that she had [01:05.83]In fact been a pig [01:06.87] [01:13.92]When the club finished [01:14.58]We wandered the streets [01:15.52]For a while until we got to [01:16.70]This 24-hour cafe [01:17.68] [01:18.68]I didn't like the look of it [01:19.81]So we left and got a taxi [01:20.88]Back to Morag's flat [01:21.44] [01:22.78]I couldn't sleep so [01:23.45] [01:24.29]I sat about drinking someone else's [01:25.36]Strawberry tonic wine and tried [01:26.69]To keep everyone else up [01:27.79] [01:43.61]Then at ten o'clock in the morning [01:44.80]We went downstairs to [01:45.56]Buy some drink [01:46.29] [01:46.83]We had intended [01:47.35]To watch the football in the afternoon [01:48.77]But we'd passed out by then [01:49.83]And slept right through it [01:50.98] [01:51.50]Awaking to find that England [01:52.44]Had won two-nil [01:53.17] [01:55.06]Then we went to get the train [01:56.22]Home and had a few in the [01:57.25]Station bar [01:57.58] [01:58.23]We had some stuff left from [01:59.20]The previous night's supplies [02:00.16]So when we got home we decided [02:02.54]To go down to John's indie disco [02:03.89] [02:05.20]Same story as Friday [02:06.09]Lots of hugging [02:06.99]Lots of dancing etc etc [02:08.24] [02:09.16]I couldn't sleep again [02:09.83]So went to the park [02:10.69]To look at the toon [02:11.56] [02:12.21]Taking a detour through [02:13.07]The playpark [02:13.57] [02:14.36]To get in we had to climb over [02:15.77]A ten foot steel fence which resulted [02:17.14]In severe bruising of our hands [02:18.49]Legs and groins [02:19.07] [02:20.15]But we had a good laugh on the stuff [02:21.40] [02:21.92]Especially the tube-slide [02:22.62]Which probably doubles up [02:23.73]As a urinal for drunk teens [02:25.03] [02:26.57]Then we walked through the woods [02:27.57]To have a look at the toon [02:28.73]Big disappointment [02:29.71]But the mist on the lake was cool [02:30.88] [02:35.50]Sunday afternoon we go up to [02:36.70]John's with a lot of beer in time to [02:38.25]Watch the Simpsons - it was a [02:39.73]Really good episode about love [02:41.02]Always ending in tragedy except [02:42.28]Of course for Marge and Homer [02:43.30] [02:44.28]It was quite moving at the end [02:45.32]And to tell you the truth my eyes [02:46.44]Were a bit damp [02:46.98] [02:55.20]Then we watched these young girls [02:56.20]In swimsuits have a water [02:57.35]Fight in the street [02:58.25] [03:01.24]We went up to the pub about ten [03:02.55]It was busy for a Sunday night [03:04.51]Lots of people we know [03:05.39]Including my first ever girlfriend [03:06.49] [03:07.73]Who I still find very attractive [03:08.88]Quite frankly [03:09.38]But I didn't really speak to her [03:10.52] [03:11.49]She's probably still a b**ch anyway [03:12.49] [03:14.89]Her friend Gillian was there [03:15.72] [03:16.72]I had a chat with her [03:17.60]She was still quite pleasant [03:18.73] [03:19.49]At the same time I watched Malcolm [03:20.80]Make some terrible attempt to try [03:23.85]And chat up a girl we know called Jo [03:25.18] [03:26.86]He made some remark about her [03:28.00]Skirt that was barely there the [03:29.23]Previous night or something [03:30.00] [03:33.05]I couldn't sleep again that night [03:34.05] [03:35.23]Thanks to some seriously disturbing [03:36.49]Nightmares Matthew says [03:38.86]I should cut down on the cheese [03:40.46]"Went out for the weekend [03:41.55]It lasted for ever high with [03:44.03]Our friends it's officially summer " [03:45.98] [03:46.58]"Went out for the weekend [03:47.98]It lasted for ever high with [03:50.42]Our friends it's officially summer " [03:52.54] [03:53.16]"Went out for the weekend [03:54.61]It lasted for ever high with [03:56.91]Our friends it's officially summer " [03:59.01] [03:59.66]"Went out for the weekend [04:01.24]It lasted for ever high with [04:03.67]Our friends it's officially summer " [04:05.57] [04:06.79]I got some sleep eventually [04:07.99]On Monday afternoon [04:08.69] [04:09.52]It was a beautiful day [04:10.52]And later that evening Malcolm [04:11.87]Introduced me to the [04:12.67]Power of Merrydown - £1 79 a litre [04:14.92]8 2% - mmmm [04:18.13] [04:19.61]Judith and Laura came round later [04:20.88] [04:21.50]And we sat in my back garden and drank [04:22.93] [04:24.27]Then Matthew came round [04:25.04]And we went up the town [04:25.82] [04:32.22]It's officially summer