With Reference to TOP SECRET MISSION: CODE NAME /BCB SPACE INVADERS AT STANDON: Roger roger. for reading eyes of Boutique control only. destroy upon reading. over. top secret mission accomplished...book club boutique space invading invaded with gusto....world order of books back on... boutique newspapers delivered in dawn raid to camp sites....over...poetry and paper and trees may reside together again in peace once more halleluiah! for now we may sleep safely in our bunks... Hurrah for Standon and Book Club Boutique Space invaders!!!! It is a magnificent blur of gunfire and rockets and starlight and FEMI KUTI and SUN RA and PALOMA FAITH and BARBARELLA and SWIMMING POOL...and GALILEO and BIG RED BALL IN THE SKY...and TUNING FORKS....and BONFIRES and stop that kid singing OASIS aound the camp fire someone PLEASE...and the pumping Tipi...always pump up the volume...pump up the voume...pump...pump...Good work Captain Kelly Davitt for the backdrop and Sargent Sally Dunbar for the visuals and of course Field Marshall General Captain Dan Carrier and his troops for pump up the jam was pumping. clearly. The Tipi looked like a sack of cats tap dancing in a bag of mice from the outside. Brothers and sisters, i can tell you this much and this little, already the trenches where we once fought have been powdered over with seeds and poppies have been planted there...there where you did laugh and dance and raise your hands in the air like you just dont care and cartwheel and handstand and wee... and put boys in an inflatable ball and push them down a hill ha ha... Alex and Juliet and all at Standon we LOVE and salute you and all that fought so valiantly, there where we once rose together from the left bank and charged and where ponies raced and cavorted and jaegermeisters were slugged...already poppies grow there...and innocent children jump on skipping ropes singing your names as though you were folklore. We raise a salute to the BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE heroes and heroines who fought so hard and long: Corporal Kiss and Tell glitterball Paula Varjack, Ground control to Major Murray Lachlen Young, Officer silver bum Annie Brechin, Captain Cockney Tim Wells, Irish Leiutenant Aoife Mannix, Field Marshall Nicholas Hogg, General Gold lame Karen Hayley, The Marquis Andreas Grant, lunatic leftenant Roddy McDevitt, Brigadier Colonel Rachel rock-solid Rayner and not ever forgetting to be thankful to Australia’s lesbian vegan army, who provided transport and cover during a raid of rain at oh one hundred hours when gin and lime was administered by Australias finest, Major Melania Jack and Private Patty Bom. Major Max Doray, your kiss of life kept up troops morale like no other and we salute you too Max, good work soldier, good kissing keeps a good army fighting fit, warming up the lips and tongues so good poems may come forth. On Sunday the sun came out and we were about to drop parachutes with more poet bombs when the Czech’s came on board and sent in allied troops with Captain Katus. Good work solider and thanks for introducing us to the wicked Jamaican man who sang our sunny afternoon away with such beautiful songs. Throughout our campaign we had valiant back up from our very own Janis Joplin, lady laughing trousers, with a machine gun laugh that could be heard most anytime and anywhere, Colonel Claire Nicolson. For highest security reasons and passport control our in-house Oliver Reed, Marcus Downe was on board for general chaoic crowd control, terrorist attacks of saxophone solos should the need arise and it did, often, very very often. This is a letter, written from my private bunker, this is a letter of thanks and gratitude for all who partied so bravely at Standon Calling...such a glorious festival, utterly unforgettable...i give thanks to those who gave the lives of their brain cells and ear drums for the sake of boutique and book and club...thanks to all at Standon Calling.... Next mission the banks of The Big Chill, to campaign the stages of the Words in Motion tent and The Crap Stage...i have a fist full of poems and a truck full of BCB newspapers to deliver.... i will see you there, bring your words mightier than the swords and let us have it, have it, have it...i say anyone seen my other welly? over and out roger roger in out in out shake it all about General Godden beep.beep...
BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE NEWSPAPER OUT NOW PICK UP A FREE COPY IN THE FOYER & BAR OF OUR BASE CAMP DICKS BAR. 23 ROMILLY STREET. SOHO. During the summer of 2009 THE BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE left the safety of cocktails and Dicks Bar on planet Soho to take books, booze and boogie-woogie to party and perform in England's green and lush fields of Albion and to rock and roll in hay bales at music festivals, and kick ass in Tipis and on literary stages at Kimberly, Latitude, Camp Bestival, Port Eliot, Standon Calling and The Big Chill. This film features magic not-to-be-missed moments such as Salena Godden's 'Imagine If You Had To Lick It' live at Latitude Festival and 'Keith Richards' live at Standon Calling by the fantastic Murray Lachlen Young...among a great many other golden captured snaps of summer carefree bliss for all the family to enjoy! Why go to a festival at all when you can have the essence of festival spirit here and in your very home and all for free! Starring: Paula Varjack, The Marquis Andreas Grant, Murray Lachlen Young, Roddy McDevitt, Annie Brechin, Claire Nicolson, Melania Jack, Patty Bom, Salena Godden, Max Doray, Cobalt Stargazer, Karen Hayley, Tim Wells, Aoife Mannix, DJ Dan Carrier, Sally Dunbar, Kelly Davitt......and many more...and most probably you! Woop! Now show us your wrist band and sit back and relax. Perhaps drink a warm cider out of the tin in your wellington boots with the shower head sprinkling all the family. Then take a sly wee wee up against your neighbours car wheel and slip in a puddle of sick in your flip flop as you enjoy a front row seat at the main stage of...
