Vastly inflated commercial event in P Rye Park

[Sue]

Is Mr Scruff going to be there?

That's worth the ticket price alone :)

I have some Mr Scruff oven gloves. And a mug :)) :)) :))

Oh and some music, somewhere :))

[peckman]

Indeed sue . And horace Andy on Monday apparently at the regaee festival . That will get the keyboard warriors spurting horlicks over their laptops . Come on people we live in Peckham bring it on .

[Sue]

But will there be Mr Scruff merch?

I need to add to my collection :))

[peckman]

Just don't tell anyone else he plays this stuff

T

[Angelina]

so there are two separate events? one on Sunday and a different one on Monday?

[DuncanW]

http://thisisgala.co.uk/information/about-gala/

https://www.kerbfood.com/jamonrye/

[cella]

Tractorlad Wrote:

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> I have no issue is people having some well earned

> fun but cant help worrying the surrounding roads

> will be gridlocked. From the event website.

>

> "Peckham Rye and Nunhead Stations are CLOSED on 28

> May, please take this into consideration when

> travelling to the festival....There is no parking

> permitted within the festival site. We take no

> responsibility for your vehicle on the surrounding

> roads"

There are trains advertised from PR on 28 May and I am planning to use. Is this correctly advertised?

[jim_the_chin]

Can?t we all just slag off the tories? They?re to blame for destroying council budgets and forcing these sorts of measures - and once again they?ve got us all arguing amongst ourselves?

[JennaAZ]

There is no service between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction the whole bank holiday weekend (Sat-Mon). Replacement buses are running.

Additionally, I'm a local resident who utilizes the park to walk my two large dogs on a fairly regular basis and enjoy the space. While the festival is not my thing and I won't go, there is absolutely NO reason not to allow this. It's a public event for the public on public land.

For those who are wholly opposed - you have options - get out of town for the weekend, use another park, buy ear plugs (see where I'm going with this?).

At the end of the day this is a good lesson in tolerance, which many people need to learn more of.

[first mate]

dresswaves Wrote:

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> jimbo1964 Wrote:

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> > > Does anyone know why they are using the Park

> &

> > not

> > > the Rye?

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> > That would make more sense. Guessing the extra

> > fencing?

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> That?s what I thought but having seen the site

> today they have put solid fencing round the whole

> site even where there?s park fencing.

Southwark website says the promoters had other choices but they especially liked the "pretty" backdrop of this venue and wanted the visual impact of the trees and park for their ticket buyers. The common has no trees. They also said that on the common sound would be harder to contain, the trees act as a sound buffer.

[MrsP]

It's not a public event - you need to buy a ticket http://thisisgala.co.uk/tickets/

[JohnL]

JennaAZ Wrote:

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> There is no service between Surrey Quays and

> Clapham Junction the whole bank holiday weekend

> (Sat-Mon). Replacement buses are running.

>

> Additionally, I'm a local resident who utilizes

> the park to walk my two large dogs on a fairly

> regular basis and enjoy the space. While the

> festival is not my thing and I won't go, there is

> absolutely NO reason not to allow this. It's a

> public event for the public on public land.

>

> For those who are wholly opposed - you have

> options - get out of town for the weekend, use

> another park, buy ear plugs (see where I'm going

> with this?).

>

> At the end of the day this is a good lesson in

> tolerance, which many people need to learn more

> of.

Maybe we can have Jeremy Corbyn next year as his event at White Hart Lane Rec isn't selling to well :)

https://action.labour.org.uk/page/content/labour-live-faqs/

[fishbiscuits]

I mean... I'm all for the festival, but looking at the lineup, it is mainly people playing records. Is that what happens at "music festivals" these days?

[uncleglen]

jim_the_chin Wrote:

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> Can?t we all just slag off the tories? They?re to

> blame for destroying council budgets and forcing

> these sorts of measures - and once again they?ve

> got us all arguing amongst ourselves?

The government gives money to the local council but the local council are free to spend the money on whatever you voted for...many Labour councils will withhold money from the front line services and spend more on admin at the Town Hall....YOU have given them carte blanche to do this and do it they will- with impunity if central Government is Tory...so suck it up for another 4 years.

[rendelharris]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> The government gives money to the local council

> but the local council are free to spend the money

> on whatever you voted for...many Labour councils

> will withhold money from the front line services

> and spend more on admin at the Town Hall....YOU

> have given them carte blanche to do this and do it

> they will- with impunity if central Government is

> Tory...so suck it up for another 4 years.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep on repeating it, people will eventually believe it" - Joseph Goebbels

Don't know why that just came to mind...

[dbboy]

Not just anybody playing sets, Norman Jay will be partaking, well worth seeing.

[flocker spotter]

lol

[fishbiscuits]

dbboy Wrote:

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> Not just anybody playing sets, Norman Jay will be

> partaking, well worth seeing.

Do records sound different when he plays them?

[dbboy]

It's the selection and mixing of tunes

[taper]

Didn?t Jimmy Saville pioneer that technique in the 60s?

[adonirum]

You should all have gone to Glastonbudget...........great craic

[green ranger]

One fifth of the park

One week in 52

That?s about 0.4% use of the park

Some nimbys need to get a life

[TheCat]

I know right. I went to Dulwich park this weekend, and did you know, there's a caf?!!!???, right in the middle of the park!!!??? in the exact spot I wanted to sit and listen to my wireless. And all these people(probably out of towners) were in there eating, drinking and enjoying themselves. I don't know why the council didn't think of the local residents who can only use that 100sqm of park space, and couldn't possibly just sit somewhere else.

[Abe_froeman]

Can hear the music inside my house from over a mile away! (Windows open, obviously, given the weather). Must be pretty bad for any one who actually lives close to the park.

[Heva]

Lying in my garden listening to the music drifting over from the Rye . Norman Jay Mr Scruff Horse meat disco Horace Andy bring it on... and I?m 59