Slam! Bam! Thank you... Grantham?!

by Dom Gourlay [Edit this content] ▾ 19 comments 15:14 August 16th, 2007

Not going to V this weekend? (Um, fuck no – Ed) Then why not head to the usually sleepy confines of Grantham.

This coming weekend looks set to be the defining moment of the year in the town of Margaret Thatcher's birth, as on Saturday (August 18th) G-Fest hits the Market Place in the day and the Playhouse at night, playing host to some of Grantham's finest, culminating in some late night revelry courtesy of those loveable scamps Das Disko.

The real action kicks off on Sunday (August 19th) though, as The Black Dog plays host to Summer Slam, a 12-hour extravaganza kicking off at midday. Featuring both an indoor and outdoor stage, admission for this is a mere 5 pounds with the confirmed line-up as follows:

Outdoor stage
I Was A Cubscout
Tonight Is Goodbye
Public Relations Exercise
Rolo Tomassi
Meet Me In St Louis
Cross My Heart
Scared Of Sharks

Dog (indoor) stage
Nightvision
Root
Less Than Nothing
Dead Sentils
Street 45th
Pennyless Ben
August Underground

+ closedown party tunes courtesy of Das Disko.

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OMG

It IS PimmsOclock

HeartbrokenStar | 16 Aug '07, 15:16 | X | Reply

Margaret Thatcher

Invented Mr Whippy-style soft scoop ice cream. Fact.

Part_of @HeartbrokenStar | 16 Aug '07, 15:25 | X | Reply

!!!

I've heard a rumour the stage is a wrestling ring. Is this true?

tiernan @HeartbrokenStar | 16 Aug '07, 15:25 | X | Reply

someone...

please tell me that is true!!!

Des-T-Roy @tiernan | 16 Aug '07, 15:32 | X | Reply

Grantham

has a train station which is a hub of GNER activity. fin.

chuckbarris @Des-T-Roy | 16 Aug '07, 15:39 | X | Reply

How come when I lived in Loncolnshire there was fuck all to do?

And no it's all la-di-da let's watch Meet Me in St Louis and feel great....

Rantrantrantrant etc...

UncleMonkey @chuckbarris | 16 Aug '07, 15:48 | X | Reply

I think that

Mutiny On The Bounty are playing this as well now

bsmrocks | 16 Aug '07, 16:21 | X | Reply

Ditto.

thisGirl played Lincoln a few times though = amazing-o!

chuckbarris @UncleMonkey | 16 Aug '07, 16:36 | X | Reply

YES IT IS A RING

it will be built on saturday.

I cant believe Grantham is being discussed on this site!!

carpet @Des-T-Roy | 16 Aug '07, 16:59 | X | Reply

haha me niether!

how bizzarre

should be good though :)

will126849 @carpet | 16 Aug '07, 17:19 | X | Reply

can we have

a reading of a list of all the wrestlers who have died in the last five years at the start?

Jordan_229_2 @carpet | 16 Aug '07, 18:43 | X | Reply

Yay!

Grantham is famous!

Kayleia | 17 Aug '07, 08:54 | X | Reply

DiSappointed..

I thought this was about Leslie Grantham.

congaeel | 17 Aug '07, 09:20 | X | Reply

issac newton

also went to school in Grantham

heres the winning fact tho:

while visiting the Grantham to visit his grandmother a certain lead singer of a band called Blur payed a visit to the toilet at the train station where upon resting on the "throne" saw some grafitti which then led him to write charmless man.

i joke you not.

carpet @congaeel | 17 Aug '07, 10:32 | X | Reply

I hear

Grantham's full of charmless men

domgourlay @carpet | 17 Aug '07, 11:51 | X | Reply

dom who else u no

apart from me and whit???

were so funky and charming we cant even sleep with ourselves

carpet @domgourlay | 17 Aug '07, 12:13 | X | Reply

no Prince quotes

please

Kayleia @carpet | 17 Aug '07, 12:27 | X | Reply

Wham Bam Thankyou Mam

One of the worst songs the Small Faces ever did record.

wrightylew | 17 Aug '07, 14:10 | X | Reply

Here's the running order & times:-

DOG 12.00-12.20 Less than nothing
SLAM 12.30-12.50 Scared of Sharks
DOG 1.00-1.20 Dead Sentinals
SLAM 1.30-1.50 Cross My Heart
DOG 2.00-2.20 August Underground
SLAM 2.30-2.50 Pictures
DOG 3.00-3.25 Pennyless Ben
SLAM 3.35-4.05 Meet Me In St.Louis
DOG 4.30-4.55 Street 45th
SLAM 5.05-5.30 Rolo Tomassi
DOG 5.40-6.05 For No Reason
SLAM 6.30-6.55 Public Relations Exercise
DOG 7.05-7.35 Dark Satelites
SLAM 7.45-8.15 Mutiny on the Bounty
DOG 8.25-8.55 Root
SLAM 9.05-9.35 I Was A Cub Scout
DOG 10.05-10.40 Nightvision
SLAM 10.50-11.20 Tonight Is Goodbye
11.20-12.2. Das Disko