Sisters @ Royal Leamington Spa 03/08/2010

Being645 · 13 Apr 2010, 10:58

Hom_Corleone wrote:
weebleswobble wrote:might be possible-I'll google map etc laters...
If you need any local knowledge let me know.

Is there a campsite?

Debaser · 13 Apr 2010, 11:05

Hom_Corleone wrote:Ladies and Gentlemen

I have pleasure in announcing the 4th date on the global venture that is Summer 2010.

August 3rd - Royal Leamington Spa Assembly

But Leamington Spa welcomes The Sisters Of Mercy for the first time.
Let's rawk.

How fabulous, how wonderful, how typical - I'll be in the States

Eggi1 · 13 Apr 2010, 11:06

Flight,Hotel and Euro Star to Belgium is booked.

weebleswobble · 13 Apr 2010, 11:12

Eggi1 wrote:Flight,Hotel and Euro Star to Belgium is booked.

to Belgium? you'll be disappointed..

13 Apr 2010, 11:12

Eggi1 wrote:Flight,Hotel and Euro Star to Belgium is booked.

But Leamington Spa is in England.

_emma_ · 13 Apr 2010, 11:16

I take it Eggi is speaking about the journey to the next gig.

@ Hom - yes I intend to arrive to this one too. I have August off work anyway.

Eggi1 · 13 Apr 2010, 11:20

Hom_Corleone wrote:
Eggi1 wrote:Flight,Hotel and Euro Star to Belgium is booked.
But Leamington Spa is in England.

oh s**t....

but Lokeren is in belgium

Maisey · 13 Apr 2010, 11:23

Everyone knows Leamington Spar - but who's heard of Belgium?

Back in time · 13 Apr 2010, 11:37

Airconnection from my home is not so good, only to London (Luton). Anybody knows if any trains available or any other suggestions like horses, carriages, hot air baloons etc from Luton to Leamington ?
Help is appreciated.

Eggi1 · 13 Apr 2010, 11:43

Back in time wrote:Airconnection from my home is not so good, only to London (Luton). Anybody knows if any trains available or any other suggestions like horses, carriages, hot air baloons etc from Luton to Leamington ?
Help is appreciated.

check http://www.nationalexpress.com 26Â£ Luton-Leaminton Spa-Luton

Back in time · 13 Apr 2010, 12:01

Eggi1 wrote:
Back in time wrote:Airconnection from my home is not so good, only to London (Luton). Anybody knows if any trains available or any other suggestions like horses, carriages, hot air baloons etc from Luton to Leamington ?
Help is appreciated.
check http://www.nationalexpress.com 26Â£ Luton-Leaminton Spa-Luton

This means that you will be there also ? Or just checking ?

13 Apr 2010, 12:06

Back in time wrote:Airconnection from my home is not so good, only to London (Luton). Anybody knows if any trains available or any other suggestions like horses, carriages, hot air baloons etc from Luton to Leamington ?
Help is appreciated.

Isn't there flights to Birmingham?

Back in time · 13 Apr 2010, 12:54

There is, but I am trying to get there as affordable as possible. 500 EUR for a ticket is high.

13 Apr 2010, 12:56

Back in time wrote:There is, but I am trying to get there as affordable as possible. 500 EUR for a ticket is high.

Wow.

_emma_ · 13 Apr 2010, 14:33

Lemington / Lokeren confusion is nothing as they both start with an L.
But I recall a friend who once booked a hotel in Rome for the Sisters gig in Berlin.

13 Apr 2010, 15:10

_emma_ wrote:Lemington / Lokeren confusion is nothing as they both start with an L.

And end in N.

DerekR · 13 Apr 2010, 15:21

Hom_Corleone wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:
Hom_Corleone wrote: If you need any local knowledge let me know.
how far away from the train station is the venue?
About 1 minute.
There's about 6 pubs in 30 seconds walking distance of the venue.
Several restaurants and a rather nice park.

Well that's me sold

abridged · 13 Apr 2010, 15:39

Will have to find an upstairs room and a Nurse alone with her little soul...

13 Apr 2010, 15:44

DerekR wrote: Well that's me sold

Was it the park that was the decider?

Garbageman · 13 Apr 2010, 15:56

I can feel a major tour announcement coming soon.

godgirl · 13 Apr 2010, 15:59

Garbageman wrote:I can feel a major tour announcement coming soon.

no, i think you'll find that is a bowel movement you've got on the way!

13 Apr 2010, 16:01

Garbageman wrote:I can feel a major tour announcement coming soon.

Keep the (blind) faith brother.

abridged · 13 Apr 2010, 16:02

The Gals at the place of me fav John Bentjeman poem. Much better than Slough. I'm there!

13 Apr 2010, 16:05

abridged wrote:The Gals at the place of me fav John Bentjeman poem. Much better than Slough. I'm there!

A happy little number....

Death In Leamington
John Betjeman
She died in the upstairs bedroom
By the light of the ev'ning star
That shone through the plate glass window
From over Leamington Spa

Beside her the lonely crochet
Lay patiently and unstirred,
But the fingers that would have work'd it
Were dead as the spoken word.

And Nurse came in with the tea-things
Breast high 'mid the stands and chairs-
But Nurse was alone with her own little soul,
And the things were alone with theirs.

She bolted the big round window,
She let the blinds unroll,
She set a match to the mantle,
She covered the fire with coal.

And "Tea!" she said in a tiny voice
"Wake up! It's nearly five"
Oh! Chintzy, chintzy cheeriness,
Half dead and half alive.

Do you know that the stucco is peeling?
Do you know that the heart will stop?
From those yellow Italianate arches
Do you hear the plaster drop?

Nurse looked at the silent bedstead,
At the gray, decaying face,
As the calm of a Leamington ev'ning
Drifted into the place.

She moved the table of bottles
Away from the bed to the wall;
And tiptoeing gently over the stairs
Turned down the gas in the hall.

abridged · 13 Apr 2010, 16:09

Yeah tis not the most cheerful but damn fine for all that. Weirdly have always wanted to go to Leamington because of the poem so

gives me the chance.

Hopefully no death there though!