Well, I *was* going to the Essential Festival, but might actually go up and see 808 State Live in Manchester that day... And it's free!! For more details, check out http://www.808state.com or http://www.gpercussion.co.uk/ (808 State will be there)... Now to find a hotel in Manchester for the weekend! l8rs, Nick ;-)

Gutted about Ezzie Fezzie. Am gonna go to Big Chill's festival in a castle instead though ("gee- is that a genuine British Castle"- I can hear you Americans cry- yes it is). Would be well up for doing an Orbular event- it would go off, big time. Have got a fair bit of event organising experience under my belt, but am off to Costa Rica for a couple of weeks, so I'll see whatago'on when I return. Peace y'all

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From: Jonathan Wakely <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: orb@mailman.xmission.com To: orb@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Orb] Essential Festival IS cancelled :( Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:27:33 +0100

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:34:38PM +0100, billy.b wrote:

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Re: [Orb] Essential Festival IS cancelled :(

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I have absolutely no experience in organising a music event

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and will be happy throw myself into a project like this.

:)

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A bijou BadOrb gig sounds like heaven. Does anyone have the ear of BadOrb at all to get a feel for this or are they secretly planning something themselves (we can only hope).

I would recommend top of Silbury Hill as the venue, very trippy place.

now _that_ would be a good venue! easier to get at than stonehenge, which is fairly inaccessible nowadays, unless you're a "licensed" pagan, in which case you can approach stonehenge once a year, to within a distance of 20m. Or something like that. I still resent being followed round the stonehenge site by a security guard jobsworth type a few years ago because he thought we looked shady and were going to steal one of the stones or something. twat.

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