Teiges Banda

London… Oh, how you desire my presence. I’m back in London for the weekend because I felt like I missed seeing it the week before when I got sick. Boy, am I happy I returned for a few days. I’m CouchSurfing with Terry, a CS friend I was able to connect to through Nick (My first CS host). After spending the weekend with Terry, I wish I could have stayed longer to talk more about life. He’s still young, but he’s been backpacking all over the world and done so many tremendous things. Though I didn’t get to tap into it all that much, his music knowledge is vast and I hope to exploit it as I travel to occasionally freshen my iPod J

My first night in town he took me to a back alley club for a very unique live music venue with a couple of his friends. Apparently, the first band had some visa issues at customs and was unable to perform, so we shot over to a local pub. When I say local here, I mean an indigenous experience. The four of us walked in and every head turned to look at us. No worries, it wasn’t in a Manchester United v Liverpool I’m going to kill you way. But when we ordered, even Terry was asked where he was traveling from. Nonetheless, it was a cozy little pub that had so much character. After we downed a pint, we cruised back to the venue for some music.

View from the door

View from the inside

Amazing! There is no way in hell anyone would ever find this place unless you knew someone that had been there. We’re still trying to figure out what kind of music fusion Teiges Banda was, but so far we’re pretty set on eastern European (Possibly Polish) mixed with Hebrew chanting. All I can say is whenever the band went on (3 sets) I was sucked into an intense state of hypnotic focus and became utterly useless to any attempts at conversation. I’ll see if I can extract the audio clip I recorded on my camera and make an mp3 out of it for everyone to experience. Terry, top notch evening good sir!

Teiges Banda