I Like The Way You Move

Gentrification, hey? To be honest, I'm surprised it took so long.

Have you been to the Duke? It's round the back of Waterloo, across the Millennium Park from the Old Vic. You may have been on a grim Tuesday night whilst waiting for a train or something. You might have walked in, then quickly left due to it seeming just a little bit intimidating. If this is the case then you probably won't understand why the mourning. Just another London pub that hadn't moved with the times.

If you've been at the weekend though, what a different place. It's karaoke armageddon.  What a stonker of a night. I've been going fairly regularly for six years now and I'm gutted that it's closing down at the end of the month (only for a refurbishment, but it's hanging hands, and I just don't see it being the same afterwards).  If you've not been, go there, you've got three 'oke opportunities left.

Last night was my last Duke. Ben sang Minnie the Moocher. Claude brought his own CD. Students made chants for all the singers. I sang Ms Jackson with a stranger. Everyone got very drunk. Standard Duke. A man at the bar said, "This is the greatest Friday night there is." He might just be right. Duke of Sussex, thanks for all the good times and here are your best bits:
 
Honest Dave * The really drunk Norwegian girl * New metal No Scrubs * Kevin Spacey * Funky Cold Medina * PK's 30th * Slurring Your Mother's Got a Penis at a bemused room * Anna Burns Burns Burns * The first time Dom sang * Hugging a tramp * Jump Around * "Jane"'s sister subverting She Loves You * The fight * But most of all, yeah, most of all, I like the way you move.
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In other news I saw the Noise Next Door this week.  The whole concept of a comedy, improv boyband filled me with dread, but they had been recommended to me, so I figured I ought to see them.  They were brilliant (if you ignore the maybe ten minutes where they drifted into the self-indulgent parlour game territory).

Last week I almost posted about going to Cambridge for a gig. I couldn't think of anything to write that did't make me sound like Clarkson, so I said nothing at all.

Here's a question for you, internet, why is Cthulhu so popular at the moment.  Lately, nary a week goes by without me seeing a Cthulhu reference - is there some kind of Lovecraft revival going on that I'm unaware of? Or is it just that I mix in circles pretentious enough to reference characters in fairly obscure, 1920s, sci-fi novels