Apple, Pip and Alan by the bar
The 28th Norwich Beer Festival, St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich - 26th October 2005
The annual Brome Swan trip to the Norwich Beer Festival in St. Andrew's Hall occurs, in a chartered bus which takes us up from the pub right to the entrance. Luckily we have advance tickets and so skip right past the huge queue that creeps all around the corner almost to Elm Hill. As ever, the festival is faultless, although it's unusually hot and humid in the hall - outside was still around 13°C, compared to -2°C about eight years before. Much beer is consumed, and the Cawston Silver Band is in attendance again. It's also the first real test of a large-scale event with the new-ish super-wide-angle lens: it's always amusing what people will do for the camera if they think you're from the press.
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At the bar in St. Andrew's Hall
Russell and the SCC Massive
Russell tries to scratch off a Norwich quote
Russell, Dan 'Parrott', Russell, Nosher and Andrew B
Carol, Benny, Gerry and Gloria
The Cawston Silver Band get ready to kick off
Suey and Andrew
The other side of the bar
The Post-Horn Gallop
The post-horn guy heads off into the crowds
Crowd scenes
Paul wanders past
The Cawston's conductor does Jazz Hands
There's a load of singing going on
Wavy has a sing
Sarah and Wavy
The band takes the applause
Wavy licks Sarah's ear
Sazzle and Suey
There's a load of furious pint waving
Suey with a droopy roll-up ciggy
Wavy's in the zone
People with paper 'Nelson' hats
Andrew gets intimate with Wavy
Paul, Bindery Dave, Wavy, Twiglet Carl and Ping-Pong Peter
Parrott (40) phones his mum for a lift
Dave, Marc and Suey
Nosher (with beer-holster shirt) and Dave L
Wavy does a Michael Jackson-style crotch-grab
Ping-pong Peter grapples with Wavy's arse
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Apple, Pip and Alan by the bar
Apple, Pip and Alan by the bar
At the bar in St. Andrew's Hall
Russell and the SCC Massive
Russell tries to scratch off a Norwich quote
Russell, Dan 'Parrott', Russell, Nosher and Andrew B
Carol, Benny, Gerry and Gloria
The Cawston Silver Band get ready to kick off
Suey and Andrew
The other side of the bar
The Post-Horn Gallop
The post-horn guy heads off into the crowds
Crowd scenes
Paul wanders past
The Cawston's conductor does Jazz Hands
There's a load of singing going on
Wavy has a sing
Sarah and Wavy
The band takes the applause
Wavy licks Sarah's ear
Sazzle and Suey
There's a load of furious pint waving
Suey with a droopy roll-up ciggy
Wavy's in the zone
People with paper 'Nelson' hats
Andrew gets intimate with Wavy
Paul, Bindery Dave, Wavy, Twiglet Carl and Ping-Pong Peter
Parrott (40) phones his mum for a lift
Dave, Marc and Suey
Nosher (with beer-holster shirt) and Dave L
Wavy does a Michael Jackson-style crotch-grab
Ping-pong Peter grapples with Wavy's arse