Infest

Infest was, as ever, an absolute hoot.

I was (also as ever) terribly late on Friday, far more so than normal. I also arrived to find that they'd given my pre-booked room in halls to someone else. After 20min of prevarication from the friendly, helpful but rather stressed security guard, I left my bags with him and trotted up to the venue to grab a couple of pints of Saltaire Blonde, bump into an already-somewhat-pissed epistaxsis and bounce around to the last band of the night, Grendel, with miss_wonderly.

In terms of militarily-precise organisation, it all went downhill from there, really. I'm not going to attempt to chronicle events or list all the LJers I met, there were faahsands of 'em. I took my laptop - it is only a wee subnotebook - but never turned it on once.

Suffice to say that the ale was good (until it ran out on Sunday night), the food was good, especially leisurely brunches in the Love Apple., the music was good... oh, hell, it was all good. There were corridor parties until dawn every day, and some guys in D Block of Arkwright Hall had a complete pro sound system set up in one of the kitchens - mixing desk, mahousive speaker set with booming bass drivers, lighting rig, the lot. Got to spend more than a token 2min talking to _whitenoise for once, a significant bonus.

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