17/11/23 Zara @ The Birds Nest - Spooky Night

Friday night finds me taking the long trip down to Deptford. I don't do it that often, but I do enjoy the occasional trip on the Dave Lee Roth. I love being able to sit at the front and pretend to be the driver! 🚂

I also like it because of the way it twists tightly and ducks steeply up and down - it reminds me of going on the ghost train when I was a kid. 👻🚂 It's nice to be able to have fun on the way to a gig for a change! 😁

Kind of appropriate that I was thinking of ghost trains as the event I am going to is labeled Spooky Night - I guess tonight was the closest date the venue was available to actual Halloween. 👿👻💀🧛🦇

I miss the first couple of bands but the DLR drops me at Deptford Bridge near the Birds Nest pub in time to see Zara. They are an alt-rock band with grunge and strong Goth influences.

So naturally they are dressed in black. 🦇 The standard of musicianship is high and their songs are interesting.

Just to confirm their Gothness to anyone who might not have noticed, they drop in a long cover of the Bauhaus classic 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'.

There was another band on after Zara, but I couldn't take any pictures or anything as I was otherwise engaged... 😉

Then back to the station to catch the ghost train. 👻🚂