2012's TGE attempt

We didn't have tickets, although we had a plan, we had the will; we were well excited about the Great Escape! Instead of paying for tickets this year and ending up queuing instead of watching bands our plan was to watch the secret gigs, the street gigs and some bands from the unofficial Great Escape. You all must agree that this sounds like a great idea? Just as much fun, but for free!
It started up well, we meet up at James's new place, massive garden, great company and Pimms - what more can you ask for on a sunny Saturday afternoon?
A couple of drinks turned into a few more, 'we will leave in a minute' turned into 'we will leave in an hour', being able to see five gigs turned into being able to see one gig, maybe to at a push...And so on...All of a sudden it started to get dark and we finally started our venture towards town and the Great Escape! We walked past the Wick Inn on the way, and instead of continuing in to town we somehow decided to stop there for dinner? Dinner combined with a few more drinks and inappropriate conversations ended up with us together coming up with a brilliant idea. LUCKY VOICE! Karaoke is always a good call, right? What we apparently forgot at this point was that we were supposed to watch gigs, not sing along to cheesy boyband hits. Never mind, instead of free gigs I got a lovely afternoon in the garden, Thai food for dinner and topped the evening off with karaoke.

E x