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British Members of the Nation! How was the CBG Festival?

Thought about you folks all day yesterday! I'd have come if you all did not live so far away.

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Permalink Reply by Tres Seaver on October 4, 2009 at 4:24am

They're probably all too hung over to get back here and comment. ;)

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on October 4, 2009 at 5:26am

Well...some of us are just about able to post a few lines. As organiser I've got a bit of a biased view, but I reckon it went pretty good. We had a small intimate venue which was just right for the workshops, and we had nice lively crowd for the evening performance. Not many complaints, and lots of praise..so we'll chalk it up as good one!!

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Permalink Reply by BigBadDom on October 4, 2009 at 7:42am

John did a cracking job organising the event and as MC on the day. It was great to be in the company of like-minded folks. Some great instruments and playing. Roll on UK CBG Festival 2010!

From small acorns...

My mind is buzzing with ideas for guitars and amps!

Dom

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on October 4, 2009 at 9:41am

My head hurts, Im tired, my throat is sore and Im stoked with a million ideas that I just cant wait to start building! :o)

In a word.... AWESOME!

The atmosphere was buzzing all weekend, and I think everyone learnt something. Personally, if there was time to organize another for next weekend, Id be there!

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Gallagher on October 4, 2009 at 11:24pm

Having not even know that this forum existed until then, it was fantastic, thanks to everyone that made it a great event. I enjoyed it and walked away with three new guitars. Greedy???

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on October 4, 2009 at 11:46pm

Greedy?? Nope..... just addicted like the rest of us :o)

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Permalink Reply by Sherb on October 5, 2009 at 12:15am

It was a superb well run event from what I saw .....informal cozy and bloody good fun.
Maybe we should re-title the "Brits are coming" group to "The Brits have arrived" the standard of some of the CBG builds was impressive going to have to up my game. Any one posted vids or pics..... can't seem to find any.

Sherb

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Permalink Reply by One String Willie on October 5, 2009 at 2:41am

Congratulations to all of you!

I don't really have a feel for where everyone in the CB Nation is located in the UK--are most of you close to Birmingham? Riding on the wave of this success, does it make sense to start thinking of organizing another one 4-6 months from now in another location so you will have a spring and autumn festival going (the idea is to repeat this one next autumn)?

Best regards, and keep on playing!

Best regards, Willie

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on October 5, 2009 at 2:52am

Birmingham is pretty much in the centre of the the UK....and there were a few people from nearby who came, but we had folks travelling from all over the UK - from 400 miles north in Scotland, from the West in Wales, from down South in Devon and from Lincoln in the East. It meant quite a lot of travelling for many people, but this didn't seem deter them!

We'll see what the general concensus of opinion is...but I think there will be another one. Because of the way friendships have been forged at this first fest, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are some smaller get-togethers, now people have met up and realised that there are like-minded folk living fairly close.