Some good stories are trickling in as we clear out venues and get buried in invoices. The couple who met while Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan wailed in the background. The metal fan from Telford who went to Until The Light Takes Us and ended up returning to the festival every day. The gentleman at the same screening, reading Folk Tales of the North York Moors (see above). The Flatpacker who locked her keys in the car and had to smash her own window so she could pick up Stuart Braithwaite from the airport. And the woman with two bags of heavy shopping who mistook Julien Maire’s Digit performance for an information desk. She asked where the computers were. Julien paused for a moment and then swiped his finger across the paper in front of him, leaving a line of text in its wake. The woman’s bags plunged to the floor.
Thanks to the very helpful people at The Ticketsellers, booking for Flatpack is a breeze. As you probably know many of our venues are pretty intimate, so if you want to be sure of seeing something – or take advantage of the 4 screenings for £20 deal – then sort your tickets in advance. Things which are selling particularly well include…
SUNRISE
ODEON BUS TOUR
SEPARADO!
THE SECRET OF KELLS
BELBURY YOUTH CLUB
BURNING
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
– If you’re planning to see the latter, you might like to know that there will be a pre-screening black metal warm-up session at Scruffy Murphy’s in Dale End beforehand. (Details for facebookites here.)
– The Odeon bus tour got a mention on radio 4 this afternoon when the Film Programme took a tour of the Electric; should be on iPlayer soon.
– As noted by Created in Birmingham, colourful stripes are appearing all over various festival shops and venues. David Hurley is also in the CiB shop over the weekend installing his strange family of mannequins.
– Finally, we end this disjointed and maybe slightly frazzled blog post with a doffed cap to our hero of the week – Adam at Aquila TV, who has been holed up in their edit suite all week compiling the shorts programmes.
Have a lovely weekend, and we’ll see you next week….
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