Bye bye Country Show (picnic on July 22nd?)

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Because we only pay our council tax for the country show

I was thinking about this last night and as much as people are pissed off with the council I strongly suspect it's an infrastructure issue with it being due to take place the weekend before the olympics start. I remember hearing something about the olympics on the radio months ago and they were saying that they were going to be shipping things like portaloos in from Europe as there weren't going to be enough to go round. And then there's stewards, police etc etc.

Of course, as we've already said, doesn't mean we can't have our own massive picnic though

You mean permanent toilets haven't been built at the Olympics grounds?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If it's good enough for Paula

 

[colacubes]

You mean permanent toilets haven't been built at the Olympics grounds?

I'm sure they have but they're likely to need many more temporary ones for the event itself given the number of people milling around outside the stadia.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm sure they have but they're likely to need many more temporary ones for the event itself given the number of people milling around outside the stadia.

So not only have they fucked up the Country Show, they've nabbed all of Europe's loos! What are all the European festival-goers going to go on? Outrageous

 

[colacubes]

So not only have they fucked up the Country Show, they've nabbed all of Europe's loos! What are all the European festival-goers going to go on? Outrageous

Fuck knows

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fuck knows

I'm sure Brixtonites are perfectly capable of digging some long-drops in the park

 

[editor]

Surely more people attend Glastonbury than the Olympic park?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Surely more people attend Glastonbury than the Olympic park?

The Olympics are stealing Glastonbury's loos so they figured on top of a mud problem, it could get very messy down there, so cancelled it altogether

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This boring Olympics is being used as an excuse for way too much.

Gonna be a massive anti-climax and I'm sure we're all gonna get on with our lives just fine. It's just this years Millenium bug.

Next my Teenage son will be saying 'I can't have a bath, dad, the Olympics needs all the water!'

 

[editor]

The Olympics are stealing Glastonbury's loos so they figured on top of a mud problem, it could get very messy down there, so cancelled it altogether

I didn't realise there was a finite amount of portaloos and none more could be manufactured. Ever.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I didn't realise there was a finite amount of portaloos and none more could be manufactured. Ever.

True, never heard such nonsense. Could create a few jobs as well or are all our loos made abroad and imported?

 

[Maggot]

The Olympics are stealing Glastonbury's loos so they figured on top of a mud problem, it could get very messy down there, so cancelled it altogether

The Olympics starts about 6 weeks after Glastonbury, so I'm sure the loos could be used for both events.

 

[colacubes]

The Olympics starts about 6 weeks after Glastonbury, so I'm sure the loos could be used for both events.

It was always due to be one of the fallow years for Glastonbury this year. Last one was 2006 and Michael Eavis said back before then that they would start having 1 fallow year after every 5 festivals.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Olympics starts about 6 weeks after Glastonbury, so I'm sure the loos could be used for both events.

I was joking about the loos. I have no idea what their excuse is. According to Big Chill though, they can't get the artists they want

 

[netbob]

I'm assuming Lambeth got a letter from the Met, Olympic Delivery Authority, central government, simular telling them this was not happening. If only there was a piece of legislation that allowed citizens to access such a potentual document.

 

[London_Calling]

It made me laugh when Tony Blair said he regretted passing the (above) implied legislation because of the amount of work and trouble it caused. Wonderful.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Let's just do it our fucking selves.

pity d-b isn't around any more.

we could have put him in charge of security for U75-fest

 

[London_Calling]

Surely more people attend Glastonbury than the Olympic park?

There are about 15 venues and numerous circuits - the road race goes down to Boxhill and back, all of Hyde Park, the 26-mile marathon route, most of Greenwich Park, Horse Guards, Woolwich, etc, etc.

 

[netbob]

Dear Lambeth Borough Council,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you provide
any documents from the Metropolitan Police, the Olympic Delivery
Authority or any part of central government regarding the
cancellation of the Lambeth Country Show 2012.

Yours faithfully,

memespring

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lambeth_country_show

 

[colacubes]

There are about 15 venues and numerous circuits - the road race goes down to Boxhill and back, all of Hyde Park, the 26-mile marathon route, most of Greenwich Park, Horse Guards, Woolwich, etc, etc.

My Mum's got a place volunteering at the Beach Volleyball at Horseguards D) and she did a test event last year where they needed tons of brought in infrastructure such as portaloos, It's quite important that people remember it's not all about the olympic park.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm banging on about this, but I really don't think this is a case of Lambeth cuts . Very annoying, but I think there are more important things to tun into a political issue at the moment.

 

[London_Calling]

Yep, I don't think people will understand the scale of what's going to happen in August until they see it. This is truly an immense national-scale endeavour. You don't see this level of mobilisation and coordination outside wartime.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Don't mention THE WAR!

 

[London_Calling]

"And now over to Claire Balding, who's aboard one of the Nazi barges in the channel ports... Are people getting excited yet, Claire?"

 

[Brixton Hatter]

First the cannabis march/festival, now the Country Show. Fuck Lambeth and their cooperative council bullshit.

We will have a festival anyway, we'll party all night, we'll take the park, block the roads off, weed will be legalised for the day, we'll squat the town hall and fill it with a 10k rig and 1000 people dancing, we'll have a tanker full of chucklehead transported from Somerset and parked up in the main road, Jay Rayner will be ceremoniously roasted on burning pyre in a blackcurrant sauce produced by the Suburban 75 forum, and Steve Reed be dragged through the streets to the Olympic Park where he will be locked in a room with Seb Coe for the entire duration of the Olympics.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yep, I don't think people will understand the scale of what's going to happen in August until they see it. This is truly an immense national-scale endeavour. You don't see this level of mobilisation and coordination outside wartime.

Pfffft - the Olympics can shit off. Massive waste of money. I wish Paris had got it.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

We need a first aider. I can wrap people in bandages

I am a first aider. Consider my services offered.

To be fair, even though I love the Country Show, I'd be a lot less annoyed if they weren't so antagonistic towards anyone else wanting to put events on in the park. They only allow their own event so if they aren't doing it that's it (OK, alcohol-free Green Fair aside).

Yeah, I helped some mates put on a festival in Brockwell Park a few years ago and Lambeth were a nightmare, imposing pointless expensive fencing at the last minute which ruined the festival and ensured we made no cash for the charity we were raising for. They then did their best to mess up another event we did on Clapham Common, with ridiculous complaints about noise and numbers, even though it was a quiet chilled out event. A few years ago the council were saying Brockwell Park was underused for events and should be used more for the benefit of the community, but they've made it bloody hard for anyone to do anything, apart from a few disasterous pay events.

 

[spanglechick]

First the cannabis march/festival, now the Country Show. Fuck Lambeth and their cooperative council bullshit.

We will have a festival anyway, we'll party all night, we'll take the park, block the roads off, weed will be lagalised for the day, we'll squat the town hall and fill it with a 10k rig and 1000 people dancing, we'll have a tanker full of chucklehead transported from Somerset and parked up in the main road, Jay Rayner will be ceremoniously roasted on burning pyre in a blackcurrant sauce produced by the Suburban 75 forum, and Steve Reed be dragged through the streets to the Olympic Park where he will be locked in a room with Seb Coe for the entire duration of the Olympics.

mmnn

i'd be up for a picnic.

 

[London_Calling]

Pfffft - the Olympics can shit off. Massive waste of money. I wish Paris had got it.

What's that got to do with loos?

 

[Orang Utan]

What's that got to do with loos?

Where did I mention loos?

 

[London_Calling]

It's the topic we're discussing.