Bristol Boat Regatta
At the end of officially the "wettest early summer in the UK since records began" (and yes, I can actually quote that from BBC Points West), Bristol City Council decided to dump 800 tonnes of sand on the old dockland car park opposite the Seven Shed and Thekla, to create an 'urban beach'. Bevan had taken 3-year-old Josh there, and noticed there was a DJ in a bamboo booth, so he set about securing us a gig.
They agreed upon 2-4pm, on the Saturday of the Bristol Boat Regatta, for a trial run.
The day before the gig, I was struck down with a serious case of 'man cold' and wasn't sure whether I would be able to attend, but I had already suggested that my Sister should come along with the Nephew's so I decided I would battle on.
I was excited about Joe and Sam finally meeting Bevan & Rosie's little boy, Josh, but as it turned out they didn't exactly hit it off.
Since I was full of cold and surrounded by kids I decided to leave the DJing to Bevan and Jody, and spent my time building sandcastles.
By pure coincidence, Rich and Bruce were back in Town for the weekend.
OK so that's not Rich, but he managed to avoid my camera. All that training must be helping.
Jelfs, Nade, Chris & Em all came out to join us, and we popped over to the Thekla for a free afternoon performance from Bristol's favourite ukulele band, the 'Rinky Dinks'
Hope FC faithfuls Joe & Neil are both members (phnar phnar), and I have to say it was one of the most entertaining gigs I have been to in days.
Here they are performing 'Ring of Fire'
...and the Grande finale was a medley of Queen's 'Fat Bottomed Girls', into the Stones' 'Sympathy for the Devil', into the Beatles' 'Hey Jude', all performed on three ukulele's, a bass guitar, and a portable drum kit. I should get commission for this.
Pretty soon, someone mentioned the 'C' word...
That's 'Curry'.
That was Em's attempt to get Chris to smile for a photo. Here's how he did...
Finally, any Boat Regatta wouldn't be complete without fireworks....
posted by Andy @ 3:38 pm
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2 Comments:
An urban beach eh! Sounds exotic.
Did Bevan rinse out the DnB flava's for the beachgoers or was it a more chilled, reggae-infused eclectic mash-up?
And since when has 'man flu' been downgraded to a 'man cold'? Maybe it's the summer version?
I like the way Points West have called it the 'wettest early summer' as if hoping the 'late summer' will be any better. I didn't realise the English summer was so long it could be split into early and late bits.
Still, I hope it picks up soon, for the sake of an annual Pegs blog if nothing else (the rules must've changed for this season!). The first day of the Premiership looked sunny, although I was sure I saw rain in Bolton.
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