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Post by carolinec on Nov 10, 2008 16:49:26 GMT
Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere in the Vault. I had a feeling I'd seen it somewhere, but then I'm currently forgetting things, so imagining things is probably next!  Anyway, here 'tis, from Guy Adams the lovely new BFS boss: THE BFS CHRISTMAS OPEN NIGHT
5th December, Ye Olde Cock Tavern, London
The British Fantasy Society invites members and non-members alike to join us for pre-Christmas cheer at Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AA from 6pm onwards...
Come along and help raise buckets of cash in the most agreeable company north of the River Thames!
The British Fantasy Society's Charity Raffle Spectacular for the St. Mungos's Homeless Charity. www.mungos.org/
Dave McKean very graciously signed copies of this years FantasyCon Souvenir Magazine along with a very nice poster for Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book - two sets will be handed out to the lucky ticket holder on the night. Extra special gifts for your tree also include books donated by PS Publishing, Gollancz, Tasmaniac, and Nightshade Books to name but a few.
For that X-tra Special Christmas thrill Tim Lebbon offers and is indeed more than happy to kill one raffle winner in his next dark fantasy novel for Bantam Spectra, ECHO CITY FALLS.
In his very own words '...Thing is, in Echo City, dead isn't necessarily forever... they might end up modified, brought back as chopped humans to serve as purpose-bred fighters, or scopes, or sex slaves. Who knows? Only me. And I'm not telling 'til I know who the winner is...'
So Remember, Remember the 5th of December... it certainly beats an evening at home with the In-Laws!
THE BFS CHRISTMAS OPEN NIGHT
Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AA
Time: 6pm onwards
Nearest Tube: Temple (0.3 miles), Chancery Lane (0.4 miles), Blackfriars (0.4 miles)
British Rail: City Thameslink (0.3 miles), Blackfriars (0.4 miles), Farringdon (0.6 miles)
Unfortunately, I won't be there as London is too far from Yorkshire at the moment!  |
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 10, 2008 16:52:22 GMT
i'm hoping to make this one.
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Post by lordfroggy on Nov 10, 2008 23:20:01 GMT
Thanks for posting this here Caroline... I've been a bit under the weather this weekend and have not been posting as much as I'd like to.
Plus I've been trying to obtain more raffle prizes for the event itself to add to the goodies we have already received.
I'm sorry to read you can't make it, if anyone else is attending from the Vault and we have yet to meet, please come and say hello on the night!
Cheers,
Martin
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Post by Scott Wood on Nov 12, 2008 9:22:28 GMT
I'll be along, I went to the last one on my own, felt a bit of a tool for a little while, but everyone was friendly.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 12, 2008 10:06:07 GMT
^we'll have to wear special one eye grey badges...
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Post by Scott Wood on Nov 12, 2008 12:03:50 GMT
I'll, no doubt, be pimping a few copies. Thay's me on the left, look out for the bloke with the leering Victorian iguanodon looming behind him.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 12, 2008 12:18:18 GMT
WILL DO!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2008 11:15:53 GMT
Bumped as it's tomorrow! Much as i'm tempted, yesterday i noticed all these posters have sprung up in Aldgate to the effect that "if you get drunk and vomit in public you'll be fined £80"- thanks much the Mayor for murdering my social life. Anyway, i'm sure it will be fun and should anyone wish to give us a report ....
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 5, 2008 12:09:52 GMT
The posters in Tooting say 'Great party you must have had last night. It was a party, wasn't it?' and then there's a photo of my weekly recycling bucket full of gin bottles. I hate these Xmas hate campaigns. It almost made me fall over on the way back from the off licence
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 5, 2008 15:15:16 GMT
Yes, the world has changed. My intuitive response is to crayon a couple of spliffs and tabs on the poster an extra crate or two of Guinness, some laudanum and a comatose chorus girl or two and then mark in a resounding YES. Does anyone feel that Britain is slowly losing any credible sense of fun?
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Post by carolinec on Dec 5, 2008 18:26:48 GMT
i noticed all these posters have sprung up in Aldgate to the effect that "if you get drunk and vomit in public you'll be fined £80"- thanks much the Mayor for murdering my social life. With a mayor like you guys have got in London what do you expect? We don't have any such restrictions/penalties up here in Yorkshire!   Ooo, those of you who are going to this open night, by the way - you might see Troo there as I think she's going. |
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2008 22:13:41 GMT
You'd get ten years minimum if you did that in our fair city. Bloody Tories ruin everything. When Red Ken was mayor nobody bothered you. You could drink on the underground, sniff glue in the park, take your sex life to the cemetery, swamp the City in a tidal wave of vomit and still have change from a fiver. And now we've got this clown with his morbid aversion to bendy buses and normal people quietly going about their depravity. I'd moan to my MP about it were it not for the fact that i just remembered he happens to be George Galloway.  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 6, 2008 4:34:22 GMT
I was playing in Dusseldorf tonight, in the Aldstadt. People tottering around like dodgems, some cocaine-demon-eyes, carrying beer bottles; some were smoking spliffs outside, smoking in the pub, drinking ludicrous cocktails, knocking back endless Kilkenny and Guinness then tripping outside with bottles, dropping them in the street, spewing up.
All felt quite comfortable. No trouble, no violent gangs; just a bunch of young people out getting mindlessly smashed. I'm not saying I'd like to do it myself - well past all that and more suited to a pint of mild and a quiet cigarette- but it just looked so...comfortable.
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