The slow and inexorable passage of time yields strange things. Babies are born, people die and those around me continue to show signs of growing up and getting sensible.

Case study 1.

Von Klap, who put on a killer performance on Saturday night. What started as a band with the goal of “being the drunkest band in town” grew tight and learned to play to a crowd that was drunker than them. Still hitting the scrumpy and red wine before gigs in the past they often needed to be scraped off stage at the end of a set and poured out into the laneway.

Then, before Saturday’s gig, a moment of surprise, Von Klap approached me and asked for five glasses of water.

The times they are a-chanin’.

Case Study 2.

Sweet As James has been my friend for more than a 15 years, during which time we have drunk over a million beers together. Him and I used to be demons on the drink and would not go anywhere without frontloading at-least a dozen first. Then… on Saturday night, he had a vague glow on - not enough to be close-talking and spitting in your face, but enough to think he is funnier than he is – and I ceremoniously shouted that he was to lay back on the bar and I would pour tequila down his gullet. And do you know what? he said “no”.

The times they are a-changin’.

Here’s some photos from Von Klap. Can you find Aine in the second image?