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Tickets for Cropredy 2013 have gone on sale for a limited time, perfect for those awkward Christmas presents!!  ;D

http://www.fairportconvention.com/cropredy_news.php#news1



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Not yet.

Tickets will go on sale from 9 December until 10.00 on 20 December with guaranteed pre-Xmas delivery to all UK addresses.

We'll probably wait until next year as there's no financial incentive and Xmas can be an expensive time of the year.

We shall also be announcing some top acts to go with the sale!!

This is the bit that grabbed my interest  :)

TOP acts, eh?

ZZ ???

The Spinners  ::)

No chance of Basement 5 then...

A bit early for the "Who Would You Like To See At Cropredy 2013?" thread, though.  It's not even Advent, let alone youknowhatmas!

For the first time since '96 I can't make it due to a change in the start of the school hols, in previous years a 2 week holiday would have given me a weeks gap before Cropredy, but the schools are closing on a Tuesday effectively moving the starting Saturday a week later. >:(

Can't you feel a dose of influenza approaching?   ;)

Unfortunately not as the holiday has already been booked!

I rather like the sound of that!

Absolutely! Mind you, unless purchasers are sworn to secrecy on pain of death, don't you think the information might just leak out to the rest of us?  ::)  Just a thought.  :P

I think they mean they'll make a general announcement, Shirl, rather than just telling buyers.

Just got the November/December issue of that splendid magazine Rock'n'Reel (or R" as the call it now).

My eye was caught by the FC winter tour ad, and I perused the list of venues, just in case The Swan in High Wycombe has somehow forced itself into the list. It hadn't.

I then saw an item headed "Cropredy Christmas Special". it starts "Knowing how many of you love to gift Cropredy tickets at Christmas...."

Look chaps, GIFT is a noun. We are in England. We have a verb that would fit neatly between the "to" and the "Christmas" above. The verb is "give". Please use it next time.

Thank you.

Gift is also a verb...

Indeed.

http://grammarist.com/usage/gift/

Sounds pretty clunky to me. Though I did have a moan about this sort of thing to my Mum once, and she said "Look, any noun can be verbed".

Did you see what she did there?? Old smarty pants.

it might be technically right but it is just plain wrong
they should have said "many of you love to GIVE cropredy tickets for Christmas". it just sounds better

We shouldn't be too harsh, I doubt they meant to annoy people. I intend to gift them the benefit of the doubt.

This sounded dubious to me so I did some looking around. Whilst it WAS in use as a verb in the 17th & 18th centuries "gift" had fallen out of use until the 1930s when the newly introduced gift tax prompted accountants to talk of gifting money to people. It was used nearly solely in this context until (believe it or not) a 1995 edition of Sienfeld where someone was branded a "re-gifter" - a recycler of gifts.

So it  is American.

And therefore, as Jim says, WRONG!  ;D

The People who talk about "gifting" are the same people who talk about "remitting  monies" rather than just "paying".

Almost as annoying as 'pre-ordering?' ....... I'll just leave that out there and make a hasty exit!!! ;D

Oh you've started something now.
How about 'can I get a coffee?'.
No, you can have a coffee, the person behind the counter will get it.

Do you want to make that large?

This topic is starting to sound like English as taught by Victorians, who believed that the rules were rigid and must be beaten in to children.

In that context 'gift' as a verb seems to have a very specific meaning, that is subtly different from 'give'.

Whatever this has swerved wildly off topic, so will be clipped back soon.

Anyway, It was probably hard pressed Gareth thinking quicker than his typing finger!!  Give the boy a break!!   ;)

 ::)well if anyone wants to gift or give me cropredy 2013 tickets for Christmas  :D.. please i.m. me for address  [;-) {:-)

First acts announced  ;D

http://www.fairportconvention.com/cropredy_news.php#news1

Very chuffed re E2 and 10CC!!  ;D ;D

Will still get tickets at some point because we loyally attend the festival, however, the acts so far announced are disappointingly dull and almost predictable imho.