On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Stuart Gardiner wrote:
The music press are always going to stereotype B&S fans as being all the same, even though it's blatantly not true. It's the same as the way they make up genres and subgenres to describe what a band sound like, and lump in with them other bands who sound completely different. It's just lazy journalism. Get used to it...
How are they supposed to be?
For those of you who weren't on the list last summer, picnics were held every few weeks in London and elsewhere around the world. Everyone is invited (40+ people is not unheard of...), all you have to do is bring a bit of food. We then spend the afternoon meeting new people, chatting, drinking (normally well into the evening), playing football / twister / frisbee / whatever else anyone brings along, and rescuing kites from lampposts. And then progress to the pub later on. And there's always the possibility that you could end up lying on the ground in a park somewhere in South East London at 4am singing B&S songs... (for further tales, search for picnics in the archives for May / June / July / August last year)
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