PopEx ≫ 2003 ≫ Love on the roof

With some sort of rice!

Partook of a truly historic barbecue this evening, on the roof of a record shop of all places. I started off with some vegetable kebabs, huge chunks of aubergine, courgette, onion and something suspicious. At first it looked like fish, but then Mrs Pauly established it was Haloumi. It's a wacky kind of cheese, as it seems not to melt, so I managed to pick it off the skewers. It didnt' taint the rest of the vegetables which were jolly enjoyable.

As an accompaniment, I chose some sort of cous cous salad affair, with beans and other things. A bit like rice salad, but with cous cous (or perhaps some other kind of grain) instead of the rice. Also on the side I had a spectacular potato salad, halved new potatoes, still in their skins, in a vinaigrette dressing, it was historic!

Of course, being a barbecue, there were meat options. The burgers looked to be hand made and were apparently, it was "very nice", though the bun was a little dry. Also there was a chicken, possibly a thigh (though that seems unlikely to me) cooked to a suitable crispiness. There was salad too, but it was just salad, nothing special.

We didn't brave the puddings, though there seemed to be fruit salad, some sort of brownie and a summer pudding, a fabulous spread.

Calm down dear, it's only a review! I'm actually a very good gig goer! The Darkness 1 blew the roof off Oxford St Virgin Megastore for Kerrang 2 day. Apparently there were Kerrang award nominations read out earlier, probably you can see them at kerrang.com 2.

  1. Removed old thedarknessrock.com link here.
  2. Removed old kerrang.com link here.

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This content originally from my very popular (in the late '90s) website popex.com. Parts were written by other people, so mainly originally created by me. I moved the content here here when the website eventually shut down at the start of the noughties. Hopefully this ignites memories if anyone sees this.