4/25 - Success Kid
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4/25 - The real reason for visiting the Newarke Houses and Museum, Daniel Fucking Lambert. At the time the fattest man in England. Now just a slightly overweight American.
Leicester Legend.
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4/25 - Gas Mask
Newarke Houses and Museum - Leicester, UK
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4/25 - Tiger head snuff box WTF
Newarke Houses and Museum - Leicester, UK
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4/25 - Tell me having a silver drum kit like this wouldn’t rule? You might not be able to tell but there are all of these royal crests and characters embossed into the silver all over these drums. When I get crazy rich I’m having a kit made like that.
Royal Leicestershire Regiment drums (click here for source of better pic) - Newarke Houses & Museum - Leicester, UK
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4/24 - Frankie Boyle Live
Dan our guitarist first showed me some YouTube clips of this guy and then we watched this over at Anna’s. Filthy, brilliant, no-bullshit ginger. The kind of thing we need on TV in the states. Too great for the BBC and the fragile sensibilities of weaker humans.
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4/23 - 4:04am - St.George’s Day
Platinum Lace Gentleman’s Club - Leicester UK
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4/23 - JUGS of FILTHY GRINGO or PASSION PUSSY CAT are only £9.50! Sounds good to this filthy gringo. And they call them JAM Donuts instead of JELLY Donuts over here. Gotta wonder if that shot explodes in your mouth.
The O Bar - Leicester UK
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4/23 - My friend Summer. She’s a Katy Perry impersonator. Couldn’t you tell?
She also introduced me to curry dipping sauce at McDonald’s. I wasn’t planning on hitting it up at all but it was the only thing open at 4am when the strip club closed.
Gotta tell you, Platinum Lace in Leicester had Budweiser longnecks 2 for £5. By far the best deal since I’ve been to England. The strippers were the b-squad because it was St.George’s Day and they ignored us. Maybe because we initially pretended that I was Summer’s gay bf just so we wouldn’t have to pay to get in.
This is when I decided that Leicester can be a pretty fun place if you’re with fun people.
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4/23 - You sir, have a cat on your head.
The O Bar, Leicester, UK
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4/23 - The O Bar - Leicester, UK
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4/23 - THINK ELECTRIC
The O Bar - Leicester, UK
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4/23 - “I’ll go wherever you will goooooooo!” - Cover band in the basement of The Exchange Bar - Leicester, UK
The bass players son was actually at our show the night before at the O2 Academy. Leicester is a small world. Reminds me of Lincoln/Omaha, Nebraska.
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4/23 - FREEDOM Hand-crafted English Beer @ The Exchange Bar - Leicester, UK
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve NEVER seen anyone in England actually drinking water. I think they get all of their fluid from pints of beer. And they drink a lot of it. In the time it takes them to drown a pint of Kronenbourg, I’m only about half-finished with mine. I kinda hate beer. Whiskey is much better, but they suck at pouring booze here. They are, I think by law, required to use a 25mL “Jigger” to measure out a shot. The typical AMERICAN shot is 44mL. This makes enjoying whiskey very hard and very expensive. You’d think being this close to Ireland and Scotland they’d be a bit more generous with the sauce. The good thing is that JAMESON is typically the same price as Jack Daniel’s.
Now don’t get me wrong, Beer can be good and refreshing at times, but after the first beer it’s kinda gross. And making me fucking fatter.
But then I had a couple FREEDOM lagers at the Exchange Bar thanks to my awesome friend and Leicester caretaker Anna who let me stay for a full 3 days at her place above the bar when I thought I would only be in Leicester for the show.
This was probably the best beer I’ve tasted in England. Maybe one day we will get it in the states.
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4/23 - Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower at night
Leicester UK
