I spent most of Saturday morning in a daze. Popfrenzy’s xmas party at the Spanish club was responsible - a wicked combination of good friends, music and a bar tab. Somehow I managed to get to FBI in time to cover Anna Burns’s weekend lunch show, which I always enjoy doing, even a little bleary eyed.

Fortunately, the annual FBI xmas thing was also scheduled that afternoon (with just enough time between to get home and dump CDs). Like last year, it was at the best bar in town, and quite possibly a contender on a global scale, Opera Bar, where another drink tab got the ball rolling on all sorts of conversations, catch ups and new introductions. Boxes of the new FBI mag too.

As usual, there were prizes. Peach & Shag got the “Most Likely to Get a Proper Job” prize, to which Peach drolly said that all he could say was that they’d got the same award last year and still didn’t have proper jobs. Naked City got the “Best Show” prize again - though Dave Regos got the honourable mention. And Jon Valenzuela got the dark horse “Music Geek” of the year.

I really love that party. Mostly FBI cats pass like ships in the night - I thought it was just me, but everyone comments they only ever see the people on either side of their show - but when it happens, everyone gets along famously.

(*People who run things - more FBI parties*)