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Cannabis Festival is POSTPONED

fair play - please don't tale it the wrong way, just attempting to give the benefit of experience. The park we operate in is an ornamental inner city park which has just finished a multimillion pound revamp, so i'm totally aware of the needs of working in an inner city park that cannot be trashed. Golden rule is no vehicles on the grass at all as if it rains they'll get stuck, and the park will look like a WW1 battle field. Our 2 day 6 stage festival finished at 11pm sunday and there was fuck all trace of it by 9pm monday, with all clear up & event management done by volunteers... anything is possible ;)
 
free spirit said:
...Golden rule is no vehicles on the grass at all as if it rains they'll get stuck, and the park will look like a WW1 battle field...
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Have you been to Brockwell Park or any previous cannabis festivals there? What you have just said basically means the festival can't go ahead at all. You would understand if you came down and saw the site and the lay-out of the festival. I know you are trying to be helpful but 99% of the stalls, tents and stages involve a vehicle driving across grass. Ban that and you have no festival. Hence Lambeth saying that park is unusable, whatever anyone else 'opinion'.

Again thanks for the attempt at being helpful, and I am sure you would be welcome to come and help out in the future. ;)
 
TeeJay said:
You want to sue them for the rain?

Well actually I think there's a hell of a lot of people who want to sue Lambeth council about the rain - but that's more down to the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of property damage sustained by Lambeth and Southwark residents because Lambeth can't maintain decent storm drains! If they got sued every time they fucked up South Londoners would be sitting on a Bill Gates' sized fortune and the entire council would have to be sold off at auction. I think what they really need is a nice big hug*.

((((((((((Lambeth)))))))))) - its not easy to be as special as you are! ;) :D

*and a cup of tea and a spliff. We know TonyB won't mind ;)
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nope not the rain just the every increased efforts they have put in to stop this festival tbh, this just seems like a gift horse to them the final swipe when all else has failed...

besides there is nothing to stop them provideing the type of ground cover which would illminate the problems such as they have at southampton balloon and flower festival, almost like big super size plastic swimmingpool mats, let face it if it had been crufts or the like then lambeth would have pulled out the stops to ensure it went on...
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
nope not the rain just the every increased efforts they have put in to stop this festival tbh, this just seems like a gift horse to them the final swipe when all else has failed...

besides there is nothing to stop them provideing the type of ground cover which would illminate the problems such as they have at southampton balloon and flower festival, almost like big super size plastic swimmingpool mats, let face it if it had been crufts or the like then lambeth would have pulled out the stops to ensure it went on...
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Hmm. I'm not sure I'd agreed with this. As I understand it Brockwell Park really *is* waterlogged. I'd also like to point out that the problems we've been having have tended to originate from councillors and very senior officers/suits in the town hall (although its not alwys clear which), but not really from any junior staff on the ground - ie the type of people who have to stomp around in the mud and decide if the ground is too wet. I don't know if it does us any favours to cry "wolf" and accuse Lambeth of obstruction over things where they *are* being totally fair, and doing so could just alienate the people who we actually do have a good relationship with (eg the ground staff at Brockwell Park), so I wouldn't really want to endorse what you are saying. You might have noticed the flooding in Herne Hill which made it onto the national news on Tuesday and Wednesday? A lot of that was water run-off from Brockwell Park, so it isn't really surprising that the ground there is extremely wet at the moment.
 
right pisser this-sadly, TeeJay & ShaneC are right, in that they plain ran outa options, and the park's a mire right now. I've made promises, so I HAVE to be at JayDay, but it's a bugger for everyone else! Ironic really, Lambeth top brass dearly wanted to stymie this, and the weather's done it for them!
Just one point re Lambeth Council; Aren't you Greens all in favour of alliances with the LibDems? I mean, aren't they - politically speaking - your nearest kinfolk?
just a thought, like.... ;)
 
Bump to spread the disappointing word of postponement ...

I think TeeJay was being just a little bit over prickly with Freespirit a little further up this page -- he was trying to be helpful after all!
 
anyone fancy a dyi-jayday meet-up on saturday to ease the disappointment a bit? a wee drinkie or two? :)
 
Well, just to piss people off, 5th is fine for me - couldn't make it up to Cambridge as I'm seeing the Pixies that night... in Brixton. Result! As people have said - no guarantee of weather tho'.
 
If it was pissing it down on the Saturday I would quite possibly have spent all day in the Hobgoblin anyway so I might go in there and pretend there’s a lot of people getting soaked and muddy at a free festival just down the road…
 
actually, just thinking out loud here, but - and I know this is cynical-but clouds 'n' silver lining an' all that....I'm sure we can use this debacle to bring pressure to bear on Lambeth council - espesh as it's so marginal, politically - to look after the park better, and to invest more in Brockwell's upkeep and facilities.
kea-what IS a 'dyi-Jayday'? :confused:
 
erm well what were we gonna do on jayday? meet up, have a few beers, chat and smoke right. so if people are up for it on saturday why not drown our sorrows by doing the same. ok it won't be the same without x-thousand other people, some stalls, stages, noise etc, but it could be a nice u75 meet-up :)
 
Cambridge Crushin Kru? What's that when it's at 'ome then Jezza? :D :confused:

btw - many thanks for info. It was really helpful. I'll reply soon when I've spoken to the young man in question. :)
 
Cloo said:
...I'm seeing the Pixies that night... in Brixton...
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The Pixies are playing Brixton on June 5th? Wooo - I wonder if any of them will pop down the park between sound checks? Someone should send them a VIP invitation (not exactly sure what that would entitle them to - but I am sure a "hippy bodyguard", a free cup of tea and a large spliff in return for a promotional photograph with one of the dancing marijuana leaves would be do-able :D ).
 
foo said:
Cambridge Crushin Kru? What's that when it's at 'ome then Jezza? :D :confused:

btw - many thanks for info. It was really helpful. I'll reply soon when I've spoken to the young man in question. :)
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If you remember, my previous name for your mob was the Cambridge Social Terrorists. This is an upgrade. nickname version 2.0 :D
my pleasure to help foo. if you need further info, or if the chap wants to discuss it personally with me, PM me and I'll send you my office details
 
TeeJay said:
Have you been to Brockwell Park or any previous cannabis festivals there? What you have just said basically means the festival can't go ahead at all. You would understand if you came down and saw the site and the lay-out of the festival. I know you are trying to be helpful but 99% of the stalls, tents and stages involve a vehicle driving across grass. Ban that and you have no festival. Hence Lambeth saying that park is unusable, whatever anyone else 'opinion'.

Again thanks for the attempt at being helpful, and I am sure you would be welcome to come and help out in the future. ;)
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um yeah, sorry about that, as i've never seen the site i shouldn't have stuck my oar in. I'm sure you all know what you're doing and have done everything possible to make it happen. :cool:
 
BTW some festival people will be doing a small (unofficial!) "stall" (or "people standing around with info" - whichever is strictly legal) at Kennington Park at noon, just in case people turn up because they haven't heard that everything has been postponed. I'm not sure how long we will be there, and it is more just to make sure noone gets screwed up by the change in date and just left standing there by themselves, rather than something we are encouraging people to come to. Once we feel that we have done the job there sufficiently, we will be going 'home' to the very close vicinty of Brockwell Park, so if you know roughly where (and when) you will be there I might well be there too - with any other ner'do wells we have collected on the way ... and presumably if the weather is bad then the Hobgoblin is kinda handy too. Hope to see some of you on Saturday. ;)
 
Bit miffed, but I suppose the weather will be better in June (fingerscrossed fingerscrossed fingerscrossed)
:eek: :confused: :)
 
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