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After the night out in the pub Bathgirl and I headed to Camden where we went to Inferno at The Electric Ballroom armed with much glowstickery in search of much EBM, Darkwave, Industrial and the obligatory goth that gets thrown in with that lot. Unfortunately there was a huge emphasis on the goth side of things (not a bloody goth) and bugger all in the way of industrial (one naff NiN song does not an industrial set make). On the plus side there was a fair amount of EBM so the glowstick were cracked open and I proceeded to bounce round the dancefloor like a loon

Me being me I was giving the glowsticks out left right and center (I got called ‘The Man With A Million Glowsticks” which is not entirely true as I only had 16 ) and handed some out to a couple of girls who wanted to know where I got them from. The cuter of the two then started dancing with me which was novel as by that point I must have been looking rather hot from being on the dancefloor for a few hours. The dancing continued, she had a few quick chats with her friend and then started dancing even closer.

Now I’m a bit strange: I go clubbing to dance. I work on the premise that you can’t hear anyone and I’ll be drenched in sweat within an hour or two of being there so I’m not exactly going to be an attractive proposition to women. Still, she decided my hair was nice (she told me) and obviously wanted to do more than just dance so eventuall, after she started looking very impatient, I bought her a drink and we found a quiet spot to find out things like names and other details like that I then discovered she was looking impatient as her friend wanted to leave. Personally this didn’t bother me too much as she wasn’t quite my type and I was quite happy dancing. We were saying goodbye and I gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek when she went for the full on snog. I was caught a bit unawares so it was a bit fumbled, but I think we can safely say that I kind of sort of pulled.. ish Anyway, it’s been over a decade since I’ve been able to say ‘Why didn’t you tell me I had lipstick all over my face’