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On Friday 2nd November, Peggy will celebrate a significant birthday at Birmingham Town Hall.
tickets for the gig are not yet on sale but anyone who is considering travelling to the celestial city to join the party, might be advised to think about making an early hotel reservation, there are some good deals available.

At the moment for example;
Premier Inn £37 for a double room, close to the town hall
http://www.premierinn.com/

Premier Inn
Birmingham City Centre
3-6 Waterloo Street
Birmingham
B2 5PG
Tel: 0871 527 8074

Done. Though the price went up from £37 to £42 while I was looking at it!

The etap is cheap but no frills hotel, failing that you sleep on my settee for a fiver  ;D

Is that a fiver as in £5, or in the local vernacular for doing someone a good turn (as in "Me mate lent me his van as a fiver")?

Wow. Have you started a stampede? Prices over £50 now. Glad I got in when I did!

Let's hope the hotel is full of Fairporters, then we can have our very own after show party  ;D

Might take you up on that Addie :P

No problem mate, just send a deposit through the post  ;D

Sounds more Brummie than Black Country to me Macademis  :P

His 60th bash was great fun. I might try and do this to make up for missing Crops.

etap is showing £31 for the Friday night.

Premier price back down to £42 right now

Pity it's on a Friday though...

Tempting................

Why? What's the problem with Fridays? Travel?

Nothing... If it was during school holidays...  

I thought his 60th was a "big birthday bash"? He can't possibly be 70 already?? ???
WKWTTG??  :-\

65

Was that really five years ago!!??

Yes, we thought that! My birthday is about seven weeks after Dave's (same year - 1947), so I have no problem remembering how old he is.

DC

Hotel booked!

Tickets supposed to be available for this from today but no sign yet. In fact it doesn't even show up in BTH's calender.

As Al says, it's not on the BTH events calendar yet but the gig is advertised on the website http://www.thsh.co.uk/event/dave-pegg-1112/

 

Tickets now on sale at https://tickets.thsh.co.uk/Online/mapSelect.asp?BOset::WSadmissions::admission::performance_id=D0B784AE-23E0-4622-A60A-7C76AE2A7D14

Event described as "Dave Pegg's 65th Birthday Concert, Featuring: Fairport Convention, The Dylan Project & annA Ryder".

I'm down the front (8-)

Tickets booked ;D

Thanks for the tip off. I'm booked.

Booked, row C. I'll see if I can leave the pub earlier this time  ::)

Addie I am shocked.....late for a Fairport related gig due to staying longer at the pub? Why, I am apalled sir!  ;D Somebody I met at Cropredy told me a story last year about a group of people hanging out at a pub near the Fairport gig in Edinburgh. One of their group was getting a little antsy and said..um gig is starting now, shouldn't we be heading over. To which they pointed to a certain Mr. Nicol standing nearby and said, we don't need to worry until we see that man heading for the door! I'm sure you lot have similar stories as well

Yes, Stafford in March.

"Simon's just left, time for another 3 or 4 then". Cue missing the first half a dozen songs  ::)

Thanks Dad!

tickets ordered

Just had a look, no standing. Are these seats the standard theatre legroom? If so don't think I'll bother.

The seats and space do seem better than in most venues (and the seats are apparently acoustically  like a person).

You do get more legroom at the front of the stalls (still only half of row A sold) but may get a crick in your neck.

Phone the box office and ask about seats with legroom?

Also row C, 12,13 & 14

17 & 18. Pity the poor buggers in the middle  ;D  :P

;D ;D ;D

D9 and 10 (behind hte miscreants)