I only did five days on call, but I got called three times. Not exactly getting away with it. I think I was working for about three and a half hours on the Monday, an hour on Friday maybe, and then got called again yesterday. We were just sitting down to play the new Catan 1 dice game and the alerts went off. Luckily this time it was a "normal" incident and I only got the call because the primary on call person didn't acknowledge all the alerts that came in. It was sorted by the time I got to it.
I can only claim for anything over two hours normally so will have to see what I can get this week. Then it might be added on to this Friday's pay day. Looking forward to that as I have the day off again! And Thursday! So no commute for me again this week. Then next weekend probably serious shopping.
I've been doing some more gig research while I was off, so adding some more content, some more pages. Found another gig I was at, Brian May at Virgin Megastore, and then if you click through to that gig you can see other adjacent gigs. I will add a bit more detail there too, but you can see in the same week I also saw Jack (the actual band) and Embrace. Hmm, they weren't all solid gold were they?
I also found PROOF, via an old Melody Maker gig guide of the date of a disputed Tripping Daisy / Smoking Popes gig, it was thirty years ago this very day. I thought it was the 24th, worked out via a process of elimination, but I was still out by two days. Turns out they did play Manchester between two London dates.
Interesting stuff.
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