WELL - YOU WERE WARNED!!

Only 48 hours or so to go before the flaps open on the Big Tent for this year's Beer Festival and, unless you have your tickets in your hot sweaty hand (or have them waiting at Reception for you hip young things that bought them online!) you're going to have to get a wiggle on, and hire Sherlock Holmes to help you track some down! All this is because online sales for Friday night closed LAST WEEKEND, and we are led to believe that there are very few around in the pubs that were holding stocks (see poster on the left for a list of these)! Aside from the 200+ beers and other associated beverages that are available, the reason for this is obviously the attraction of D&C making their 7th appearance to bounce the marquee off its moorings, and we REALLY can't wait! Just one more little practice to be had tomorrow (obviously we want to keep our powder dry for the big day), and then it will be time to do the business!

The Great Escape will be on stage around 8:15, so be sure to give them a shout; we will close the evening from 10:00-ish until just before midnight. Not to give too many secrets away, we will have several "new" tunes in the set, and will be starting with a song that, I guarantee, very few people will have heard before but we think it's a brilliant way to kick off and, don't worry, there will be plenty more that you HAVE heard of before! As ever, we will be looking for plenty of audience participation, and the closer you can get to the stage, the better - I'm sure there will be barriers to stop things getting too rowdy, but talk nicely to Dutch and his mates on security, and I'm sure they'll treat you right!

So it just remains for us to get a couple of early nights (oh yeah!), and we'll see you on Friday!!