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Today me and Michelle went to see Murder in Monochrome at the Metro Club. We initially wanted to go Canary Wharf to take awesome photos but that got cancelled due to the shabby weather. Was going to goto spitalfields too but then the day was a bit too random to goto and all.

We instead planed to meet up at GBK where Michelle will give one of the veggie burgers a go. We turned up slightly late and met up at SoundControl in TCR. I also saw Shnigit, a long time muse messageboarder who was friends with Michelle. Twas the first time Michelle actually met him at SoundControl (usually he wasnt there when Michelle was about and all) and they had quite a nice chat. Hopefully I can get discounts there :p

We managed to find GBK in Soho pretty easily. Was quite a quick journey as well, bumped into ANOTHER nando’s along the way. It seems like every GBK has a Nando’s. Disturbing. Our seats at GBK were pretty shabby since we sat right next to the waiters haha. I tried taking photos of my classic burger but the waiters kept giving me looks haha, especially when I used flash.

Michelle ordered a falafel burger and had no idea what she getting into haha.

She tried biting into it but only managed to bite a bit of the burger haha. Was quite fun afterwards watching Michelle eat the top bun a bit and giving up on the burger hehe. Though these burgers are pretty hefty so I dont blame her for not finishing it off.

Mine was pretty good, had better before but it was still a good burger. After some banter we then headed off to Metro to see the gig.

The first band was… hmm… I’ll talk about Murder in Monochrome haha. Murder in Monochrome were pretty good. I managed to listen to a few tracks on their site before the gig and quite liked them. They were really good live too, the singer (Tom) had a Roland Keytar midi controller (bloody expensive these days) connected to some random synth and multi fx pedal.

I took quite alot of photos, did alot of settings fiddlage (still learning how to master the damn camera) and some of the photos turned out quite good (some quite bad but I’ve deleted them). Almost all of them were in focus (since I was just standing right next to the band haha) but some were bad in terms of what they were doing in the photo hehe.

I’ve submitted my photosets to the band on their myspace page and now they have uploaded it onto their profile page with one of my photos as their default picture. So pretty awesome I must say.

I quite liked using flash since the venue was pretty small and it lacked the lightings you’d get on a larger venue. It was either flash with some colours or just red and black haha. Though quite alot of people enjoyed the non flash photos.

After the gig we lounged about for a wee bit more and then went back home. Hopefully I’ll be able to get photo passes for Howling Bells when they play in Koko, would be awesome.