Let’s start with Friday, I couldn’t resist the temptation to go out to JFK’s on Friday night, I was going to be good and stay home, but remembered that my brother owed me £10 from the previous week, which meant that I would only need to find £3 to get into the club, so it was a relatively cheap night out. It was an OK sort of night, not the best night I have spent in JFK’s, but it was better than sitting at home wishing I was out in JFK’s, and I even felt OK in the morning, so that’s a nice bonus as normally I feel like hell after a night in JFK’s although I had to skip the kebab, so that probably helped, beer and kebab is a bad combination the morning after. Last night was also a good night, I went to some pub (which I can’t remember the name of) in Cattedown, and watched a cover band (which I also can’t remember the name of; observant aren’t I?) with Stephen, and a couple of his work mates. The surprising thing was the quality of the sound that was engineered, the PA wasn’t very big, a couple of active 4-500w top speakers and a couple of active sub units, probably no more powerful that 1,500-2,000w in total, and it had plenty of punch and clarity, much better than the 7,000w the Phoenix PA ever had. The desk/outboard equipment wasn’t anything special, all Behringer stuff, an FX rack, 6 (one MDX2600, one MDX4600) compression channels, and a Behringer Eurorack mixing console. Although the acoustics were much better and a smaller area to fill with sound, but impressive non-the-less. The night itself was pretty good, didn’t spend a penny, Pete bought me my first drink and Stephen bought me two drinks, although that’s how he talked me into going as I knew that I didn’t have any money for going out when he called me up asking what I was doing!
Football has been pretty unspectacular really; Plymouth could only manage a scoreless draw away at Deepdale. Plymouth played well enough, and deserved to walk away with a point although Preston manager Billy Davies didn’t agree saying that the referee had a terrible off day. Romain Larrieu thwarted Preston’s strike force time and time again, so he was the true hero of the day for Argyle. At the end of the day Argyle need to start scoring goals, this is the forth game in a row that Argyle have failed to score, which isn’t good enough for a team that on paper should be a top third side in the Championship. Plymouth’s survival in the championship is all but assured with only six games left in the season, but a strong finish to the season would be nice, keeping the team in good mid table position, which would give a good starting base for next season. The other team I follow Liverpool had a better day winning the Merseyside derby against Everton 3 – 1 at Anfield. The match was certainly incident packed with each team having a player sent off; Phil Neville opened the scoring although not the sort of goal he would have wanted to score as it was in the back of his own net. Luis Garcia doubled the lead three minutes later, Tim Cahill gave the Evertonians some hope when he pulled a goal back, but it wasn’t to be as Harry Kewell killed off the game by restoring Liverpool’s two goal lead in the 84th minute. Liverpool provisionally move above Manchester United in the Premiership, but all that could change in about 2 hours time after Liverpool play the team that Liverpool beat 7 – 0 during the week, Birmingham City. I am going to watch that game on Sky Sports now, and will be cheering on Birmingham City all the way, although I doubt they can come away with a result at Old Trafford, but I’ll have my fingers crossed that it does happen!