Tunnel Inn Revisited

Well, there has been an impressive response from many blokes to the call to the brotherhood to return to the Tunnel Inn to sing on this coming Sunday at their Beer & Cider Festival and to help the process we have finally managed to get round to posting some new rehearsal material.

The audio tracks for Delilah and Dry Stone Waller's Song can be found at http://soundcloud.com/thetrulymagnificentak47/sets/tunnel_inn and the regular TMAK47 rehearsal material can be found at http://soundcloud.com/the-magnificent-ak47/sets/currentpracticematerial/

Other examples of BlokeFest audio can be found at http://soundcloud.com/blokefest.

Also available on request (just send us an email) are the Magnificent AK47 Songbook and the relevant BlokeFest pieces.  Please bring your own copy along.  Note that we will make a special exception from our usual stance of "no crib sheets whilst performing, learn the songs properly . . . " so that crib sheets may on this occasion be used for Delilah and Dry Stone Waller's song (but nowt else!).

Please note there may be a last minute Quality Assurance threshold applied to maintain our "reputation" (whatever that is) so don't be too disappointed if the pieces don't quite come together in time and get pulled at the eleventh hour.

Looking forward to seeing quite a crowd there and the weather is due to hold out . . . just!

BlokeFest is far

Wow, what an amazing weekend!

It's fair to say that the event surpassed wildest expectations of the organizers with the sheer quality and quantity of the singing, drinking, merry making and general all round great blokeyness - so many awesome Magical Man Moments in one weekend

• The warm up sessions before the singing
• The quite amazingly brilliant Caberet
• The team representing Ashton Keynes taking on "The Rest of the World" to become the very first Indoor Tug o' War championsThe hog roast in the pouring rain
• The "train" in the Daneway tunnel . . .

It's also fair to say that the feedback has been phenomenal and knowing the BlokeFest Inner Circle as we do they have asked us to thank all who have expressed their individual gratitude.  

Everyone has now been scattered across the country but plans are afoot to share some of the digital souvenirs from the weekend once real life gets out of the way!  A starter for now can be found at http://soundcloud.com/blokefest/sets/blokefest-2012-daneway-tunnel/ with much more to come.

Hurrah!

BlokeFest is near

Queens's Jubilee?  The Olympics?  Pah!!  These events pale into insignificance when compare with the inaugural BlokeFest. 

It is now only four more sleeps until the biggest gathering of singing, facial hair and dodgy T-Shirts since, well, since time immemorial quite frankly.  Suffice to say the Blokes of The Magnificent AK47 will be girding their loins as well as packing their camping kit.  And a fearsome itinerary awaits them.  

In brief, the weekend looks like this:

Friday – gather at The Tunnel Inn, coach trip to visit to Stroud Brewery, food, drink and singing then back to the camp overnight

Saturday – series of workshops for all things Bloke, singing, tug of war, hog roasting and other such activities

Sunday – more singing, some walking and a bit more eating, drinking and singing

It may surprise you to know that much more can be found on a website, aptly named
BlokeFest.net.

Let's just hope the weather holds off and all the facilities work!