A couple of years ago, me and my mate went to the local rock club. It had been a while since either of us had been out on a rock night and we were in nostalgic mood!
Some band had been playing before we got there, called 'Penfold Lovelife' or some shit like that (I can never remember) but we got there for the after gig club night. So we're giving it large all night bouncing around like 14 year olds (especially when 'New Noise' by Refused came on) in the pit and sinking Jack and Coke till it's sweating out of our pores!
Near closing time my mate bumbles over to me and tells me he's been chatting to the tour manager of 'Penknife Lovelight' and he's got some acid for sale (3 tabs for a tenner), now I'm absolutely battered by this point but without even batting an eyelid I'm fumbling in my pocket pulling out pennies, buttons, pieces of eight, anything to get £10 together. I think we managed to find just over 8 quid and I sent my mate to see if he'd take it?
So, my mate comes back and it's success, I stick the tabs in my wallet, we dance away to the last few tunes and head home. Now I'm at that stage of drunk where you feel it's your obligation to go up to random strangers in the street and impart your knowledge onto them. This results in my nearly being knocked out on about 3 occasions and turns a 15 minute stumble home into a seemingly endless (but more likely a couple of hours) endeavour.
About halfway through the trek home, I had the sudden realisation that I was no longer wearing my glasses and must have lost them flying across the pit!
We get home, put some tunes on and my mate says 'so we gonna do a cheeky one then?' at this point I'd completely forgotten about the tabs and got a drunken sense of giddy joy at knowing the fun was only just beginning !
So, we bosh the tabs and decide to go through my punk, metal and all other rock records tripping our tits off reminiscing like fuck about the times we discovered bands like Choking Victim, Fugazi, Nofx and countless others, this goes on for about 8-10 hours (through which we go through a tripped out hangover).
Then, for anyone who's taken trips will know, we went through the 'I think it's wearing off delusion stage, at which point we decide to go our separate ways. BIG MISTAKE!
No more than 10 minutes after my mate left, I got the next wave and I'm tripping balls 10 times harder than before, this goes on for about 5 or 6 long hours till I hear a knock at the door.
So, I manage to pluck up the courage to answer the door and It's another one of my mates, and by Jeebus I don't think I'd ever been happier to see anyone in my entire life, so I lay down what's transpired. He then informs me that it's bonfire night and that the firework display is on in an hour at the park.
We rock over to get my mate who we just find on his own in the house giggling his tits off, get a few bottle of cider and trip out to the fireworks!
And the moral of the story is?
TRIPS + FIREWORKS = ACE
