HALLOWEEN

Wednesday 31st October. 'Siberia' in Bury. Bury is a good old Lancashire town proud of it's 'World Famous' market, it's industrial history and it's local delicacy-black pudding. Lying stranded at the northern end of the tram network, it feels like not much has changed since the early 90's. Anyway, Siberia is located at the end of The Rock, the main shopping street, and it's friendly atmosphere and cheap drinks make it quite a busy place on weeknights and at the weekend for young people across the area.

My good mate from Cornwall came up, we were both amazingly skint, so we decided to give an expensive might out in Manchester a miss, and headed for Bury instead. Wednesday at Siberia usually means Rock Night. Halloween and Rock Night all rolled into one meant that every emo kid in town was dolled up for a drunken, Halloween mosh. Bizarrely the floor was coated in leaves and cheap Halloween decorations hung around the bar. The music was a bit of a let down, as most of it was impossible to dance (or mosh) to, but after a while it soon picked up with 'Mr Brightside' and of course the 'Time Warp' being my favourites that night. Picked up some good old northern chips, and headed for the taxi rank. Quite a good (and relatively cheap) night.