Disappointing

What was supposed to be the best night out of the week turned into... well the opposite really. The highlight of the night was stopping off at McDonalds before we reached the O2 academy and scoffing a couple of double cheeseburgers. Several of my friends didn't make it out, still plagued by the effects of the previous nights beverages. That sort of defeated the point of the bar crawl before hand, if no one is wanting to drink too much then it's pretty pointless just walking round a load of bars.

The other disappointment of the night was the headphones. The basic premise of a headphone disco for those of you who aren't familiar with the concept is that you each receive a pair of wireless headphones with a switch that lets you chose between two different wireless channels. There are two DJs - one on each channel - and they compete for your attention, each playing different genres of music so that everyone's taste is met and everyone is happy. The other thing is that as the music is coming from the headphones, there is nothing audible without them and so if you take the headphones off, all you can hear is the rest of the crowd singing along (often not in tune) to the song or songs that are playing, which can also be quite amusing.

Anyway, for most of the bars, there was only one channel playing and therefore no choice of music which was a shame but bearable I suppose, logistically it would have been fairly difficult to put two lots of transmitters and two DJs in each of the four pre-bars. Then we reached Varsity. Someone obviously hadn't told them that it was a silent disco as they had the loudest music blearing out and someone had tuned the acoustics in such a way as to make it almost painful to listen to. It was kind of sharp sounding and the music that he was playing wasn't brilliant either. From what I managed to hear through the headphones, they were broadcasting outside (where they could smoke) but the signal was appalling and if you moved your head even slightly, it was lost. It did create some rather amusing remixes however, mostly pop tunes in a drum 'n' bass style due to the mixed signals. We were all hoping for everything to improve when we reached the O2 and were expecting great things from the 3D side of it as well. Turns out the 3D bit was just some graphical visualisations that you would expect to find on Windows Media Player but in 3D and wearing the glasses meant that you couldn't really see where you were going in the darkened room. We managed to stay for about an hour before giving up through sheer boredom, lets hope tonight brings better things.

On a lighter note, all the paperwork regarding module swaps has now been sorted and we finally received the new vacuum cleaner - a blue Henry vacuum which we are hoping will be a lot better than the previous upright Panasonic one. They are well known for being hard wearing types and any domestic appliance with a smiley face on the front will want to make you use it more often.