Saturday August 3rd 2024
Today we’re off to Colchester in Essex for the ‘80’s Calling!’ festival.
Castle Park is a large, scenic and well maintained Victorian park in the heart of Colchester’s city centre. As well as being a perfect location for a spot of fresh air, quick walk or picnic the park also provides a perfect setting for a huge range of events including shows, festivals and concerts.
We’re all up early today as we have to be in Colchester for 2.
I’m on the train…
Carl & Peter are in a cab…
Roy got dropped off…
And Keith was already there in the ‘Team Mullin’ motorhome…
Today we are in the gold bus…
With a few snacks to munch on…
And maybe a nip of this later thanks to Roy…
There’s a good 4 and a half hour journey ahead of us…
So time for a video…
We enjoyed the film and also these excellent cloud formations…
After a while we decided to stop at a services…
Newmarket…
Lunch was now very much on our minds and Peter had found a pub in Great Henny, very near to where we played our gig the other week in Sudbury…
Just time for some daftness…
Can’t be long now…
At last…
Four pints of your finest ale please landlord…
We took our drinks outside while looking for a table…
The pub backed on to the River Stour…
It was a great pub and pint…
Time for some food…
Just time for another pint…
We finished our drinks and headed outside where Quinnie our driver for the day was waiting for us…
Still a way to go…
Some beautiful scenery…
Eventually we arrived at the festival gates…
And pulled up inside…
We collected our passes and headed over to the dressing room…
We inspected the rider…
Here’s the running order…
Keith had watched The Christians earlier on…
We managed to have a quick chat with them before they left…
Time to go out front and have a look around the festival…
Straightaway we bumped into huge Farm fan Jon…
The festival was busy and especially the bars…
Eventually after 20 mins!!!
Carl arranged to meet up with former colleague Sophie…
Next we went to watch Hue & Cry…
We were on stage soon so we headed back to the dressing room…
Last minute preperations…
On we go…
Fantastic crowd…
What a gig!
After the show backstage…
Alex’s mum Liz with Aunty Emma…
Just time for one more picture…
Then back to find the bus…
It’s going to be another long journey home…
But what a fantastic day!
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Another entertaining and interesting Sipadvisor with excellent content and informative description of each beer . Here’s to the next one Steve 🍺🍺👍
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