| Start: | Jun 20, '09 8:00p |
| Location: | The Two Brewers Pub, Hadlow, Kent (Nr Tonbridge) |
A couple of mates' (covers) band "The Maniacs" are playing charity gig (for Breast Cancer Research) in Hadlow, Kent.
I'm going, and if anyone else would accompany me, they'll be more than welcome - I'll have an empty car, and I'd rather not go alone - I'll drop you home after the gig - and if you to my place by around 1830 I'll bring you, too.
There is a theme: Pink (I don't have anything pink I can display openly, so I'm not sure what I'll do)
http://www.themaniacs.co.uk/Gigs-2.htm
http://www.themaniacs.co.uk/News-2.htm
Venue:
The Two Brewers
Maidstone Road
Hadlow
Tonbridge
TN11 0DN(see map ^)
Telephone:
+44(0)1732 850267
(A great little friendly pub)
About 24 hrs too early for me. Hope you have a fab time.
ReplyDeleteTaking my beloved out to dinner.
ReplyDeleteThough a pint does sound nice..
Aargh!. 40th Birthday of a friend necessitates nostalgic pub-crawl.
ReplyDeleteHave a good one!
The whole "coloured ribbon for charity X" thing is getting just a tad tedious. There are about two dozen coloured ribbons you're supposed to know about. I can't wait until the chapity-obsessed idiots run out of wrists and lapels and shit and start wearing tight rubber bands around their necks.
ReplyDeleteWell, all I can say is just about everyone in the pub wore something pink. One chap dyed his grey-hair pink!
ReplyDeleteI think everyone knew what they were there for, and will remember the cause in the future. And that's what it's for.
Was it a good gig? Were you sorted for your own pink?
ReplyDeleteAs far as coloured ribbons and stuff, I don't mind the breast mob having their pink ribbons and whatever - they've been doing it for ages. I sometimes feel a little gripe because bowel cancer doesn't seem to get quite the same publicity (a brown ribbon doesn't seem to fit the bill), and it really is a pain in the arse (but then again, breats cancer really gets n your tits).
(slight digression)
I was (am!) incredibly proud of my wife - she ran the 5k 'Race for Life' in Glasgow at the start of June. The event is run by cancer research uk, but it's very much aimed at women and was originally a breast cancer event that was then rolled into cancer research as a whole.
There were 17000 odd runners al decked out in pink. It looked like a hen-night of armageddon proportions. Glasgow had the best turn out in the UK be a country mile. This fact was lauded quite a lot through the tannoy on the day, and while this was great for the charity, I couldn't help but be struck by the slightly more sinister interpretation that Glasgow (and the West of Scotland) has such proportionally high rates of cancer.
Yes! I thought it was a very good night. The pub was so full we had to sit outside.
ReplyDeleteI wore a black jumper (feigning "Dark Side of The Moon"), but topped it off with a pink bandana.
It was a great night!
ReplyDelete{Smirk, I saw you hovering there}
ReplyDeleteRock and/or Roll!!
ReplyDelete//I couldn't help but be struck by the slightly more sinister interpretation that Glasgow (and the West of Scotland) has such proportionally high rates of cancer//
ReplyDeleteIs that a fact? I hadn't read anything on the subject, so I did a quick net rummage and found the link below. Scots have a 15% higher likelihood of contracting some form of cancer than the rest of Britain. That's not a good stat, or one that's mentioned in this article.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr27/en/