A text conversation between myself and an ex work collegue; who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons, not even going to give away the sex of that person!
“U misd it 2day m8 dots gne crazy”
Me: “I’ve seen this happening for ages. The wicked witch has been dumping all the shit on Dot, it was only a matter of time before she imploded.”
“Na its self made dot ad go at chris bout sumat that wntis fault then she claimd e told er fuck off which e dnt alana erd it al n tld dot e dnt. So they ad masive shotin match in frnt of customers n chris n alana ended up in garys office. Nwt apnd 2 them bt dot went hme n got tmz of on full pay”
Me: “Yeah I was thinking of popping in today, wish I did now. But it does come down to stress, it does strange things to your perception after a while.”
“Yeah dots nt rite she was cryin this mrnin ad a go at the guy that replacd dan 4 nwt she trn pot wash off at alf 4 yestad bt loads a people r goin t leah wen she gets bk 2 complan”
Seems that the place has gone to shit since I left, and judging by this, many more will be leaving soon, either voluntarily or not, oh and I haven’t bothered correcting the txtspeak, hope you could understand it? but it made me chuckle how quickly its going downhill!
Now for something completely different, you’ll always hear me banging on about the Phoenix and how great it was, and until now I haven’t been able to show you, but now thanks to youtube I can, you can find one of the final gigs I engineered before the venue closed its doors, but it’s not one for the faint hearted, extreme sludge metal (sort of death metal slowed down). Don’t take any notice of the sound quality, camcorder mics are not keen on 7,000 watts from 8 feet away; but it sounds reasonable enough considering!
Finally watch this space… a small wind up for my good friend Tomas.