Neileo & Katiecakes

On Thursday myself and Jaymz went to meet up with our old pal Neileo for a pint and catch-up. Neil is the man who offered Alphino one of our first ever support support slots some 4 years ago when we were just starting out. His band at the time, the much-missed The Morning, completely blew us away and we were mightily chuffed. This led to a friendship that has carried on to this day, through Neil's most recent (and excellent) band Little Green, and even to Neil taking up bass duties with full-band Alphino when Gus left for Uni (see piccy below on right).

It's been a while since we last saw him, and he arrived with his new missus Katie, who is an absolute joy and a complete nutter (but in the good way, as far as I know she's not killed any babies or anything). For larks and the like we decided to enter the pub quiz that was happening that night. Now, we recognised the quiz dude as the same one that does the quiz at our local in Ringwood, which I've competed in a few times and been rubbish, so we held little hope of being any good.

However, thanks to Katie's knowledge of... well, pretty much everything, and the rest of us going "yeah, that sounds right" we actually managed a quite respectable 21 out of 25. Not too shabby.

But it was in the music quiz subsection that we really triumphed. Given only a few seconds of random songs, and being asked to identify both artist and song title, I was more than shocked to find that with Neil's handling the dodgy R&B, me tackling the 80's gay pop, and Katie knowing the songs the rest of us were too embarrassed to admit to knowing (even though we didn't) WE WON! As Katie said, we knew our music and that was more important anyway. Truer words never spoken.

Our prize? A free bottle of wine from the bar. The catch? It had to be ordered before closing time that night. So with Jaymz and Neileo driving, myself and Katie decided to share a bottle of pink wine (much to Jaymz's annoyance - he loves the stuff). Not only that but she decided to pour as much as possible into the huge glasses provided, resulting in us both having half a bottle in a single glass!

It wasn't long before she was hammered and getting funnier by the second, but I don't mean that in a mean way, she was genuinely funny, and they make a really sweet couple. Good times. Was great to meet up with an old friend and make a new one.