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General Chat => Events => Topic started by: Grant Goggans on 12 October, 2006, 03:51:17 PM

Title: 30th Anniversary Party...?
Post by: Grant Goggans on 12 October, 2006, 03:51:17 PM
Has anyone heard anything concrete about a 30th anniversary in February or March?  I have not been to the UK since 1995 and I am seriously considering getting a passport and coming if there will be one, but I need to start budgeting for it if I am to come...
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?...
Post by: thinky on 12 October, 2006, 04:49:10 PM
i'm looking forward to a concrete date being announced sooner rather than later - it's hard enough getting "time off" from the family for nights out, so i'll want to stack up a lot of bonus points well in advance ;)

thinky
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?......
Post by: Buddy on 12 October, 2006, 08:20:29 PM
Yes, sooner the better.

I've flights to book, holidays to book off work, childminders to book, kennels to book and the sooner I start organising this lot the better.

It's gotta be as close to the publication date of prog 1 as possible, 26 Feb, a tuesday so I'll guess the weekend before that, Saturday 23rd.

But I could be wrong.
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: Large48 on 13 October, 2006, 08:58:42 AM
Still prefer the idea of hiring a gallery and hanging some decent artwork for the 30th get together in a similar fashion to the one that was held in London....

Rufus you da man! ;-)
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: Wils on 13 October, 2006, 09:15:16 AM
So rather than a party, it'd be a 30th Anniversary Stand-in-a-Gallery-All-Day? No ta. Although having something like that as *part* of the celebrations would be great, having that as the *sole* event would be a bit dull and possibly extremely smug-festish.
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: Large48 on 13 October, 2006, 06:47:12 PM
Wils gues it depends on your definition of a party...... ;-)

I quite like my fetish parties but would hazard a guess most of the 30/40 somethings that are likely to go might not feel the same!
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: DavidXBrunt on 13 October, 2006, 07:30:59 PM
Speaking solely for myself I'd much. much prefer to have an event like the previous Dreddcons than the, I'm sure wonderful, art exhibit.
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: Trout on 14 October, 2006, 12:14:39 AM
I'd love some advance warning, too.

Will it be around the time Dreddcon is usually held, or around the actual anniversary?

I need to plan ahead, to come all the way down from Jockland.

Oh, and let's get pished.

- Trout
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 14 October, 2006, 02:02:54 PM
Well I want to go. I've been reading 2000ad for years. I will be 4 years older than it and have long regarded it as a younger sometime misguided brother who's heart is in the right place.

Being conscious of this, why should I let detracter both within and without the 2000ad camp make me feel unworthy of appearing at such a fastidious event?

Your money is no good here is a bit effing late as my truck driving dad worked very hard to pull a little out on said pamphlet. I will be going to honour him as much as any of the creators and fans.

We may not all speak the same language but all said and done that was the idealism of 2000ad in the first place. Understanding beyond the the back wall of our little shelters.

I could go on and it will probably start sounding like a eulogy.

No offence meant. I can't do what everybody else does but I try to do what I do, well to the best of its potential.

I would like to also add arguements on the board stay on the board for. They have no place in the real world as I have no place in the higher echilons of the 2000ad camp.

I am just a reader. I want to see how my little brother grew up.


Footnote; If you don't agree that this needed to be said, you could possibly ignore it. Just want people at Rebellion and those concerned, I was stolid defender and believer in this rag of the galaxy. And it is evident that some readers and creators are staunch defenders of their points of view. It will not break the belief in myself and my reasons for attending. Which may not line up accurately alongside yours. However, any problems contact me at smoketabs@hotmail.com
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: nick-is-at-home on 14 October, 2006, 07:36:05 PM
Eh?


As long as Carlos is there i will be!
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 14 October, 2006, 08:29:04 PM
"Oh, and let's get pished."

Now that, right there, has the makings of a plan!

Especially since it seems that BrumShed is no longer on the cards.

Cheers!

Jim
Title: Re: 30th Anniversary Party...?.......
Post by: Trout on 15 October, 2006, 12:47:51 PM
Ah, Jim, I knew we'd get on if we were to meet!

- Trout