Loading up Jo's van
The BBs On Tour, Gatwick Copthorne, West Sussex - 24th November 2007
The BBs play their biggest gig ever - Caterham Racing's annual dinner-dance, held this year in the enormous Millenium Rooms at the Gatwick Copthorne Hotel, at which there are nearly 400 guests. It's a huge venue, with a decent stage surrounded by several rather nice Caterham Sevens. To get there, we meet up at the Youth Centre in Diss and load up a couple of vans for the trip down the A12 and M23.
next album: The BSCC Christmas Dinner, Swan Inn, Brome, Suffolk - 8th December 2007
previous album: Isobel and the Science Park Fun Run, Milton Road, Cambridge - 16th November 2007
Rob's car is unloaded
Jo hangs around outside the youth centre
Max arranges stuff in the van
Rob's stuff, and some PA
Rob checks his special amplifier case
Max looks at a flyer
Henry arrives with more gear
Rob gives his Mesa Boogie flight-case a trundle
Max's van gets filled up too
Jo's van heads off down the A140
On the M25
Derelict house on the A12/M25 near Brentwood
The rest of the band head off to the shop
The QE2 bridge on the Dartford Crossing
The frenzy down to the toll gates
Jo's liking the middle lane of the M25
Motorway traffic
We stop off again
The M23 through a rainy windscreen
Rob hauls some cases into the venue
Nosher's keyboards are all set up
The view from Henry's drum kit
Rob sets up some monitors
Another view from Henry's kit
Hundreds of wine glasses laid out
Rob adjusts a microphone
Henry's kit
Jo mills around behind a couple of Caterham 7s
Max takes a camera-phone pic of Nosher
Rob twiddles around on the desk
More Caterham Sevens
A table full of trophies
Rob adjusts lights
Max pretends to be the emcee, to check spotlights
A Caterham dude tests his speech-shortening crook
Max and some keyboards
We hang out in the bar of the Gatwick Copthorne
The band hang around outside the bogs
Hanging around by the bogs
Henry and Rob
Life in the Green Room
Henry and Rob again
Jo and Max
Jo checks her lyrics
In the 'Sports Bar'
Jo pours some wine into a pint glass
Next day, we check out and head back to the vans
Back at Max's van
The rotunda of the Millenium Conference centre
The PA is ready to go back
Chairs stacked in the middle of the venue
The melee at the toll-booths at the Dartford Crossing
A ventilation funnel above the Dartford tunnel
Cars in the Dartford Tunnel
A new Beetle with flowers on it
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Loading up Jo's van
Loading up Jo's van
Rob's car is unloaded
Jo hangs around outside the youth centre
Max arranges stuff in the van
Rob's stuff, and some PA
Rob checks his special amplifier case
Max looks at a flyer
Henry arrives with more gear
Rob gives his Mesa Boogie flight-case a trundle
Max's van gets filled up too
Jo's van heads off down the A140
On the M25
Derelict house on the A12/M25 near Brentwood
The rest of the band head off to the shop
The QE2 bridge on the Dartford Crossing
The frenzy down to the toll gates
Jo's liking the middle lane of the M25
Motorway traffic
We stop off again
The M23 through a rainy windscreen
Rob hauls some cases into the venue
Nosher's keyboards are all set up
The view from Henry's drum kit
Rob sets up some monitors
Another view from Henry's kit
Hundreds of wine glasses laid out
Rob adjusts a microphone
Henry's kit
Jo mills around behind a couple of Caterham 7s
Max takes a camera-phone pic of Nosher
Rob twiddles around on the desk
More Caterham Sevens
A table full of trophies
Rob adjusts lights
Max pretends to be the emcee, to check spotlights
A Caterham dude tests his speech-shortening crook
Max and some keyboards
We hang out in the bar of the Gatwick Copthorne
The band hang around outside the bogs
Hanging around by the bogs
Henry and Rob
Life in the Green Room
Henry and Rob again
Jo and Max
Jo checks her lyrics
In the 'Sports Bar'
Jo pours some wine into a pint glass
Next day, we check out and head back to the vans
Back at Max's van
The rotunda of the Millenium Conference centre
The PA is ready to go back
Chairs stacked in the middle of the venue
The melee at the toll-booths at the Dartford Crossing
A ventilation funnel above the Dartford tunnel
Cars in the Dartford Tunnel
A new Beetle with flowers on it