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Black smoke!


5co77ie

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Grrr - as usual returning from Reading has led to slowly feeling more and more like crap every day until yesterday a stream of black gunk issues forth from my nose and i get the Reading flu.

Now, i feel awful, my deadline at work has slid, my reviews of Reading sunday night still haven't been written - thankfully i took a huge wedge of notes and I've been in work half an hour and feel a mess.

We've got Folkfest at the weekend - and metcgheck has it as one of their events - which i think is quite cool and we're all looking forward to seeing Dragonfly again. Our first free festival of the year and we're hoping it'll be at least as good as Strawberry Fayre.

I've also managed to sort out with Granty somewhere to stay for The Celtic Beer Festival in the vaults of St Austell Brewery!

Here's last year's info:

St Austell Brewery Celtic Beer Festival

The 7th annual Celtic Beer Festival at St Austell Brewery takes place on Saturday, December 3.

Now firmly established as a key date in Cornwall's social diary, the festival is one of the county's biggest and best parties of the year and is expected to attract hundreds of real ale and music fans from across the South West.

This year's event promises to be as atmospheric as ever, set in the unique surroundings of the old wine cellars and vaults beneath the Victorian brewery.

The festival is organized and staffed by volunteers from the brewery, together with suppliers, with all money raised going to local charities in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset through the St Austell Brewery charitable Trust.

As well as the opportunity to sample St Austell Brewery's own award winning ales, there will be a great range of real ales donated by local and national brewers across Cornwall and the British Isles and St Austell's head brewer Roger Ryman has been busy working his magic to create more than a dozen special beers just for the day.

More than 80 brewery staff will be on hand to run the day and make sure guests have a brilliant time. This year for the first time all food will be provided by a team of St Austell Brewery's pub managers led by St Catering Development Manager, Paul Drye – all using fresh Cornish produce and some using beer in the ingredients. The team will be putting in all their efforts for free and all food profits will go to local charities.

Music is an important part of the day and the line up includes a combination of local and in-house bands offering a mixture of rock, dance and soul. The line-up features:

12- 2pm Cunning Old Celts

2.30-3.15 SOS

3.30-4.00 Save from Oblivion

4.15-4.45 Paris

6.00-8.00 Horseband

9-11 Sex Slaves from Hell

St Austell Brewery Head of Marketing Jeremy Mitchell said: "The festival is always a fantastic event, with an unbeatable atmosphere and something that everyone at the Brewery is looking forward to."

The St Austell Brewery Celtic Beer Festival takes place on Saturday December 3 from 11am to 11pm in the vaults below St Austell Brewery.

Tickets £5.00 per person - includes free commemorative glass.

The vaults are huge and there's stages and bars all set up underground - old school cornish style like they would in the old Smuggler's caves. Live music, local food and great beer. Green light for 02 December 2006

It's £5 again this year! :P

A lot of these click are also there! Yummy!

More pics here!

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PMSL as I sit here, sipping a honey and lemon, quaffing paracetamol. You have given a name to my pain, and the name is... batman. Ooops no, got carried away there, 'Reading Flu'. I thought it was just me that got firemans lung, blocked nose, sore eyes, aches and pains. Plastic burning mo-fo's :lol: Pass the hot water bottle :)

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Yeah during Pearl Jam the big gang of guys behind us burnt all their inflatable chairs and sofas - bastards! You may have seen them all on their sofas and chairs all weekend.

It's been known as Reading flu for some years now.

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It's been known as Reading flu for some years now.

I'm not down wit' the kids as usual :lol:

It always makes me laugh at festies 'yay, greenpeace', followed by 'yay, throw your sh*t on the floor' and 'yay, burn plastic'. W*ankers. I have to take a massive handful of alergy pills, which I don't even use the rest of the year!

But saying that, why is it that only Glasto has decent bins and seating, and why don't more adopt the Guilfest idea of 'hippo bag' type thingy's in the crown to put your sh*t in?

*slopes off feeling like an aging, preachy hippy t*at as usual*

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Interesting you take allergy pills too - wonder if Reading flu and allergies are related. I mean there wasn't a lot of grass there was there?

Ha ha, no bless you, but I'm not allergic to grass, I have a really bad allergic reaction to burning f*cking plastic! They're anti-inflamitory anyway, so will reduce any irritation like this (I'm told). Try it, you might like it!

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Guess what........ The Reading flu got me on Monday as soon as I got home! Felt like rubbish ever since a;lthough it seems to be clearing up now..... :)

St Austell in December looks fantastic and accommodation is sorted! :)

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