weltshmerz pop

we re-entered the unique experience that is the bryn y mor pub last night (see earlier posts for a more in depth explanation of this swansea land-mark). it had been quite a stressed day for both of us. lisa had an exam and i had to try to knuckle down to another essay ( which i still haven't started and probably why i'm writing this blog entry). it had started off badly when some guy knocked on our door at 8.30am. not this front door-the inside door. he said " jean (our crazy landlady) sent me round to fix the door- shall i come back in 15 minutes so you can get sorted". yep not only had she not told us anyone was coming, she also just gave them our frontdoor key. so yeah then they came a-bangin and a-fixin and ruining any chance of getting work done.

anyway back to the bryn. we went in there for the first time since before christmas to see who was about and soon got chatting to various regulars as happens there. i tell you the amount of strange characters that came in, sat down and went in the next 2 hours was extrordinary. first in were 4 guys mostly wearing cowboy hats apart from a robert smith lookalike (from The Cure) who had quite a bit of eye make-up on and long black hair spiked out to the side. as they came in i said to lisa that they had to be in a band and sure enough they were. they came to sit down and it turned out the robert smith guy was a german by the name of daniel colletti who plays some mad music described as Weltschmerz pop on his flyer. He's playing at a local pub tomorrow along with another german band called Spreemohn who apparently play songs from the 1920's in a reggae,punk and ska style.

so these guys in their cowboy hats stayed around for awhile "proclaimed that swansea was a great place" then annouced they had a gig in neath in two hours and must leave. so off they walked (in the wrong direction) to neath. the other thing that was funny was when a whole themed group of people dressed head to toe in cowboy gear walked in and sat at the table next to ours so the guys in our group who just happened to be wearing hats looked like they were part of the other group. what are the chances of going to the pub and 10 people wearing the same hat as you?

in other news rocky discovered she could swim today. neither rocky nor ourselves knew she had this skill untill we chucked her in the water and our local beach. it wasnt that cruel-she had been running through it after a ball before, she just didnt really know what to do when it got deeper. so i kind of made her find out. it was kind of like the kid on the cover of the nirvana album....but a dog.