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Thames Festival 15-16th September

Sunray

Its sunny somewhere.
On the same weekend as the open house is one of the last free festivals of the year. Its OK, its not that great either but its something to do. Looks like it would be good for kids.

There is a firework display on the sunday though. I love fireworks! :)

http://www.thamesfestival.org/
 
Sunray said:
On the same weekend as the open house is one of the last free festivals of the year. Its OK, its not that great either but its something to do. Looks like it would be good for kids.

There is a firework display on the sunday though. I love fireworks! :)

http://www.thamesfestival.org/

Good call Sunray. Had a great time at this last year....shed loads of good music happening on the sunday as well this year.
 
Got my Mum & her husband down for that weekend (:eek:) so will probably got to this for something to do!
 
Sunray said:
Its OK, its not that great either but its something to do.

Aww, I like it! I've been for the last 2 or 3 years and always had a good time, and the fireworks are great.

All we need is an urbanites meeting point, a few bottles of something and a few munchies, and anything's generally pretty good. :D
 
rich! said:
isn't FinFest on that weekend? Sunday, Finsbury Park?

Yes, which is great, because we're doing both! :D

Saturday: All day at the Thames festival, including this bridge feast which I really like the sound of:
http://www.thamesfestival.org/cn/whats_on/index.php?event_id=17&dayid=Saturday

Sunday: Start the day at thye Finsbury Park festival, then about 6 or 7 pm when it finishes, head over to Thames festival in plenty of time for some food and the fireworks, (hopefully getting a free PieMinister pie like last year!) :D

Don't worry, I have your life already organised, all you have to do is obey the commands. :p
 
That's my weekend sorted then. Offline @ the Alma Saturday, Thames festie the day after. Nice one!
 
I'll be there on Sunday. Always enjoy the illuminated procession which ends the festival - and the fireworks.
 
Sunray said:
Its OK, its not that great either but its something to do.

That's pretty harsh! I wouldn't miss it. There's always heaps going on and the procession is pretty spectacular. My only beef with it is that it's strung out along such a long strip.
 
Um, that's because it's the Thames festival! It's a bleedin river! :rolleyes: :D

Sorry, but I really love the Thames festival - the procession is one of the best community involved things I see every year and it's great.

The floats are fantastically designed, there's some brilliant monsters and moving sculptures, and the involvement of wildly different community groups and kids is second to none.

And it's a lot friendlier than Notting Hill.

And there's a great big fuck off firework display at the end.
 
Good post Dogmatique!

When I watched the procession last year, I saw a guerilla group of morris men stroll up and join in!
 
No but we should do. Trouble is i haven't had a look at what's actually going on yet, so I dont want to say 3pm on the patch of lawn in front of the little stage in the middle, in case there's something unmissable going on elsewhere.

If anyone does suggest anything, (as long as it's well after noon, :D ) I imagine people will go there.
 
Anyway...

Thames Festival?

We'll be there for 1:30 with any luck.

All I have to do is scrape the boyfriend off the sofa, wrestle the laptop from him, persuade him to put some clothes on, and we're nearly there.
 
I'm going up today and will be at the Green Man stage in Potter's Field Park (east/downstream of City Hall) for Dragonsfly at 3pm. No idea if they're any good but they've got a gurdy player so I've got to see them really.

Um, if it's a biggish sort of thing, then in front and to the left of the sound desk as you look at the stage.
 
the singer with dragonsfly has a lot of energy and passion (they do a lot of breton numbers tho - you gotta like droning!)
 
why is there so much to do this weekend in london that all conflicts
ITS NOT FAIR
wanna go to it all!!!!!!!
 
Well, we were a bit unimpressed yesterday...

There were no toilets whatsoever, and getting from anywhere to anywhere else was a nightmare. And we weren't allowed on the bridge of feast! What was that all about; had they reached maximum capacity on there by lunchtime or something?

And the Market Porter was closed for a private party! :eek:

We went home early but due lack of buses, by the time we got home it was late evening anyway.

Still, good bits were :
Seize the day at the beginning, a few small impromptu bands along the way, a pub we found that had a small bit of room upstairs and did Landlord ale, a great bread stall and a chilli sauce stall, a rare shufty through borough market, and some random chats with visiting strangers.

We'll be doing it again tonight, after Finfest has finished, but we'll just go straight for the fireworks, avoiding trying to traverse any actual bits of river, I think. (Might even just stay on the north side of the river!)
 
The best bit on Saturday - by miles - was along Southwark Bridge.

It was like the M41 protest had gone legit ('seaside' sand on the road, sofas, bands etc) and brilliantly done up.
 
Saturday: they had no toilets, and they weren't letting people onto Southwark bridge.


Sunday: FinFest was full of fine peeps. And straw.
Fireworks weren't bad, though.
 
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