Fri06Jul - LANCS - Rodriguez in Burnley & on BBC Radio

[Pikey]

http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/cal_lite.php?id=461&mode=display

William will be completing his tour of NW England tonight at Burnley after a very successful event at Grange over Sands, Cumbria last night.

In view of the extensive and remarkable coverage on BBC Radio Lancashire of the Burnley event today (aired on their news item every hour) together with a selective interview with William it really promises to be a well attended event.

Sadly the Radio interviewer kept up the usual BBC biased stance using words like "outspoken", "conspiracy theory" and was aiming questions at William which would lead to the listener to believe that William was suffering from some sort of post traumatic stress disorder as a result of his experience.

[Lou_Swire]

On Friday 6th July I happened to be in Burnley so I looked up and down Clough St (both sides of Accrington Road) and couldn't anywhere that looked like a meeting hall. Hence I didn't show up for the talk.

Next time we host an international speaker can we select a decent venue rather than a slum clearance area?

Thanks, Lou

[paul wright]

Yes. Apologies.Though from the organising group I hadn't been in the least involved with the organisation of this one, and took a full hour myself to track it down. As you say, the most part of the address consists of boarded up houses.
The other little part of the street on the other side of the road had what looks like a furniture warehouse, in fact is, which is where the event was held. Actually a great venue, if you can recognise it for what it is, which was difficult.
I believe some other people couldn't find it either.
An A-board was put on the main road pointing to the spot, but you had to have approached from the right direction to have spotted it, and then you might not have done
A lot more must be done next time with identifying the location, if it is somewhat obscure.
So once again, I'm sorry you missed out
I did too really. I was so pissed off by the time I reached the place, I left pretty soon after, so can't really say how it went other than enough people had found it to fill the room
Paul

[AYEM]

Excellent work Pikey and to all in the group for a great talk at Grange-over-Sands and Burnley.

I know what an effort goes into organising and putting these talks together and I just want to say 'Thanks' to everyone involved for their effort and for their contribution towards making it happen. AYEM

[Sixy]

Ayem, also a big thanks to you for your efforts too! It's about all of us pulling together to make things happen.

I just want to take this opportunity to publically thank and give great praise to Penny for, more or less, singlehandly organising the amazing event at Grange. A huge success, so many thanks to Penny, William and everyone else involved.

[xmasdale]

[Sixy]

Hi Noel,

The Grange event was held at Victoria Hall which went smoothly and was a huge success due to the energy, efforts and organisation of Penny.

The hotel which banned William was where he was intending to stay and not the event venue. I hope this clears this up.

Also, it may be of use to read this forum thread where Mick gives a link to an article written about this subject (found here) and Pikey gives some more insight into the issue.

I hope this is useful.

Lou.

[paul wright]