The 48 Hour Party 2005 |
What |
: | Yet Another 48 Hour Party |
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Where |
: | "The Bordello", Yaldhurst Road, Christchurch |
When |
: | The 1st to the 3rd of July |
Why |
: | Because we're dirty, disreputable, and just no good |
Contact |
: | John |
Fri 1st July |
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10:00am: Setup 8:30pm: Easy Listening Music and Drinks, followed eventually by Hard Rawk, Kinesthetic Frenzy and Further Drinks 10:00pm: A Band With No Name plays in The Lounge for 1 to 2 hours. |
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Sat 2nd July |
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3:30am: Party Enters Snooze Mode. Some areas will be closed, and the
music will enter an ambient phase before the stereo of immense majesty
eventually falls silent. 11:00am: Interum Cleanup 1:30pm: Muster in Front of House for Battle! (Operation Mongoose) Proceed when ready to Holmes Park on English Street. 2:00pm: Operation Mongoose Commences! Battle may run anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on the enthusiasm of the combatants. 6:00pm: BBQ and Soup, Vegetarian Options Available. The commisary will be open for up to 2 hours depending on supply and demand. 9:00pm: Festivities Resume. Midnight: Viking Couch Funeral. |
Sun 3rd July |
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3:30am: Party Enters Snooze Mode Again. 11:00am: Monster House Cleanup including mopping, recycling and rubbish collection. 2:00pm Board Games. 9:00pm Dogs Released on Last Remaining Guests. |
The 48 Hour Party will be at "The Bordello", this year.
Yes! The Bordello! Friend of democracy and home of the Network Time Protocol!
Founded in 1783 by the Rev. Samuel Doak and stunningly located in the tranquil medieval mountain village of Les Posses, Gryon, the Bordello has played an important role in the scientific and literary life of Scotland in the years since its foundation and is famed for its many cattle ranches, extending for almost 1,000 miles (1,600 km), and covering 294,000 sqr miles (761,460 sqr km).
Features include magnificent panoramic views, ample parking, real-time syntax colouring and big comfortable sofa's. We take care to ensure that all our upholstery conforms to the British standard fire safety criteria, and this is how, in just three months, you could be speaking a language of your choice.
(If you don't know where the Bordello is, you should email John to find out)
Hi-de-Hi, campers!
From 10am: I expect we'll forage for the punch, keg, food, and so forth, move the furniture about, set up the walls and doors for the tarp corridor, and other such things.
8:30pm: Pre party warmup ambient music and drinks seguing into something more dancable.
10:00 - 11:00pm/Midnight: The band that Robin is in (currently unamed) will play a one to two hour set depending on how long the party is willing to tolerate them. I hear they're pretty good, actually. Afterwards, the usual nonsense continues. Probably a good time to do a quick recycling sweep.
3:30am: People are shoed out of the drawing room and halls and the doors to the hall from the lounge and kitchen are closed. The music will probably be turned down, will work it's way to the chill out stuff, and get locked up.
9:00am: Hosts are spontainously sadistic towards sleeping guests, if they can be bothered getting up.
11:00am: Cruel hosts make anyone who's crashed the night clean up the house, while John strides about delivering Tyler Durdenesque tirades to them via a bull horn. Sometime after this there will be a tank assembly class around at Holmes Park (see below).
Unless it rains, we'll muster at the Bordello around 1:30pm and from there march to Holmes Park (on English Street) at around 2pm, where we will proceed to wollop ALFs and each other with soft toy weapons.
We expect to field our collapsable tank, the HELS Jabberwocky, and several other outrageous special weapons. See the Operation Mongoose page for any further details or updates.
If it rains, we'll have to find something else to do.
6:00pm: BBQ and Soup! Vegetarian Options Available. The commisary will be open for up to 2 hours depending on supply and demand.
9:00pm: The Party resumes, because that's just the kind of crazy, mixed-up kids we are. Life's pretty cheap to that type.
Midnight: Midnight Viking funeral for one of the Bordello's mankier couches.
3:30am: Go home and let us sleep, you bastards!
11:00am: The monster house cleanup commences, including the mopping of floors, taking down of tarps, and sending the recycling and rubbish directing to the waste station.
2:00pm: Board games afternoon. A certain amount of talking rubbish is bound to occur.
9:00pm: Your hosts set the dogs on the last of the stragglers, and sleep the sleep of the satiated.