I just found what I think is my first bit of published writing - a gig review in @feliximperial in 1997. It's really not very good.
Billy Abbott
Michael Smethurst
@fantasticlife Certainly did - I escaped in 2000.
Billy Abbott
@cowfish i hated that place. still do. get the shivers every time i walk past the blackett laboratory
Michael Smethurst
@cowfish spotty twats nicking other college's spanners in ridiculous clown cars, yards of ale, college ties, the smell of baked in vomit
Michael Smethurst
@cowfish rugby players who couldn't drink a pint unless their mates had dipped their cocks in it first. oh christ it was horrible
Michael Smethurst
@fantasticlife I was a barman who mainly avoided all that kind of thing, but will admit to having a pot and once riding on a toy fire engine
Billy Abbott
@cowfish a pot! not a bloody morris dancer. you can see the disappointment in my eyes? :-/
Michael Smethurst
@fantasticlife it was the real ale society, which might be worse...
Billy Abbott
Michael Smethurst