Camp Sparkle 2012, tah dah!
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nopseud and I have had swift and to the point email discussions following trumpeterofdoom's post about the NKOTBSB tour, and conclude the following.
Camp Sparkle at the 1908 Lodge in Portsmouth should take place on 27th April - 4th May 2012. (It is slightly cheaper than we expected so the cost per person for accommodation only will be £127.)
There should be a Field Trip to the O2 Arena on Saturday 28th April to see NKOTBSB in concert.
All in favour?
We will deal with official sign-ups for Camp whennopseud has a bit more time available, but can you please comment to this post with a more-or-less confirmatory YES, I WILL BE THERE (or a woe-filled negative), so that we have some assurance that we won't have an empty house.
However, if you want tickets for the O2 concert, they go on sale on 27th of this month, so we need to get ourselves co-ordinated to buy tickets—assuming we'd like to go in groups rather than individually, which I reckon is more fun. My understanding is that fanclub members can buy up to six tickets. So please comment to say if (a) you want to go to the concert on the 28th, and (b) if you are willing to buy a bunch of tickets for other people.
(Incidentally, it seems we can park a minibus all day at the O2 for a prearranged parking fee of not too much, so I propose that we go up to London in the morning and spend the day doing… whatever people want to do in London. Anyone who is doing the Meet & Greet thing will therefore be handily located, and the rest of us can visit Greenwich Observatory, or the Globe Theatre, or go shopping, or whatever. I'll have to figure out the fuel costs for the trip, but it should be much better value than going by train or limousine. Unless you would all prefer to travel by limo, in which case I will obtain quotes!)
nopseud and I have had swift and to the point email discussions following trumpeterofdoom's post about the NKOTBSB tour, and conclude the following.Camp Sparkle at the 1908 Lodge in Portsmouth should take place on 27th April - 4th May 2012. (It is slightly cheaper than we expected so the cost per person for accommodation only will be £127.)
There should be a Field Trip to the O2 Arena on Saturday 28th April to see NKOTBSB in concert.
All in favour?
We will deal with official sign-ups for Camp when
nopseud has a bit more time available, but can you please comment to this post with a more-or-less confirmatory YES, I WILL BE THERE (or a woe-filled negative), so that we have some assurance that we won't have an empty house.However, if you want tickets for the O2 concert, they go on sale on 27th of this month, so we need to get ourselves co-ordinated to buy tickets—assuming we'd like to go in groups rather than individually, which I reckon is more fun. My understanding is that fanclub members can buy up to six tickets. So please comment to say if (a) you want to go to the concert on the 28th, and (b) if you are willing to buy a bunch of tickets for other people.
(Incidentally, it seems we can park a minibus all day at the O2 for a prearranged parking fee of not too much, so I propose that we go up to London in the morning and spend the day doing… whatever people want to do in London. Anyone who is doing the Meet & Greet thing will therefore be handily located, and the rest of us can visit Greenwich Observatory, or the Globe Theatre, or go shopping, or whatever. I'll have to figure out the fuel costs for the trip, but it should be much better value than going by train or limousine. Unless you would all prefer to travel by limo, in which case I will obtain quotes!)
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Date: 2011-10-17 11:54 am (UTC)Not a fanclub member, though.
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Date: 2011-10-17 12:32 pm (UTC)Whoever is thinking of doing BSB VIP, past experience tells me that the London soundcheck will be quite crowded, just as an FYI.
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Date: 2011-10-17 01:46 pm (UTC)I am quite interested, but there is no way I can commit or buy tickets at this time, since I have no idea what will be up with my mom's health. (She's having another bone marrow biopsy on Wednesday to help them decide when they want to do a stem cell harvest and if they want to do a transplant sometime in the near future, etc.)
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Date: 2011-10-17 12:35 pm (UTC)I'm thinking of staying for the weekend. Portsmouth is way too far to be driven to Heathrow, so is there a handy train station near the house?
a. I will be at the concert and will be buying my own tickets. :)
b. Unfortunately I will not be able to help people buy tickets as I'm helping a couple of other friends buy theirs.
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Date: 2011-10-17 12:45 pm (UTC)Re: the concert - not sure yet, does anyone know how much the tickets will cost? (I've looked at their site and didn't see anything.)
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Date: 2011-10-17 01:04 pm (UTC)(Might be a bit too expensive for me.)
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Date: 2011-10-17 01:35 pm (UTC)Taking a minibus to London sounds good. And if for some reason I can't get the Friday off work I can come straight to London on Saturday and continue with you to Portsmouth after that.
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Date: 2011-10-17 02:04 pm (UTC)I'm not a fan club member but would love to go see the Boys with you all, so if anyone wants to obtain my ticket stress for me, have at it! Still, I won't be heartbroken to "just" spend a day in London either, if the ticket is not to be.
Camp! I'm excited. :D
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Date: 2011-10-17 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-17 04:56 pm (UTC)As I have plans to change my employer some time beginning of next year all holiday plans have been post-poned until further notice. :'(
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Date: 2011-10-20 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-17 07:00 pm (UTC)I'm skipping the concert though, not really my thing these days :-)
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Date: 2011-10-17 09:15 pm (UTC)I'll probably skip the concert, though. But if you're going to London on Saturday and since I'm planning to fly in on Saturday again, maybe I can get back to the Camp house with you after the concert? Depending, of course, on space in the minibus, my flight times and the concert/minibus arrival times.
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Date: 2011-10-17 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-17 10:21 pm (UTC)I'm not sure on the concert. In any case, not a fanclub member, woez.
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Date: 2011-10-17 11:43 pm (UTC)I hate to be a pain, but they've changed fanclub presale dates to THIS Thusrsday 20 Oct at 6pm. It wouldn't be tour without a clusterfuck of monkey proportions.
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Date: 2011-10-22 05:38 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2011-10-18 01:09 pm (UTC)I'll hopefully have a new job by then, but it shouldn't be too hard, as I should be able to get a week of unpaid vacation, and since it's not in the summer it should work out fine.
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Date: 2011-10-19 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-19 02:28 pm (UTC)Can't afford much of anything at the moment (ie won't be doing VIP this time) so this works out great!
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Date: 2011-10-19 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 03:39 am (UTC)ANYWAY, I am all for Camp this year!
I, um, THINK that I would love to go to a NKOTBSB show, but obviously I'm running more than a touch behind here, so I can't be too upset if I've missed everything. (Also, I saw them on the Never Gone tour with Kevin, so I can't pout too much if someone else gets to see them this time!)
*edits flist to make sure he doesn't miss any more SparklyUK posts*