"a family fun day out" indeed

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  1. Freedster

    Freedster Registered User (2002)

  2. Freed-
    I can't get the link to work.
     
  3. Freedster

    Freedster Registered User (2002)

  4. Freedster

    Freedster Registered User (2002)

    looks like the link is too long and the forum is putting a couple of spaces in the middle. Try this:

    <A HREF="//icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/">Clickme</A><BR>

    Link is near the bottom of the page right now. Story was from the 20th.

    - Freed
     
  5. Nailheaded48

    Nailheaded48 Well-Known Member

    Those crazy Druids...
    I bet the PowerExchange in SF is more fun though :Brow:
     
  6. KEN COTRONA

    KEN COTRONA Well-Known Member

    Local news



    Pagan bands fornication plea Jun 20 2003




    By Shahid Naqvi


    A pagan band has demanded a "quiet area for fornication" during a Birmingham summer solstice celebration attended by Druids and billed as a family fun day out.

    The event, to mark the longest day of the year at Digbeth's Custard Factory on Saturday, was condemned yesterday by the Church of England.

    Headlining the night of revelry is to be a Gloucester-based band Inkubus Sukkubus, who take their name from male and female demons.

    Managers at the Custard Factory confirmed a "quiet area" would be provided for the group, fronted by female vocalist Candia who is known to get into a state of near hysteria during her performance.

    A spokesman said: "They said they needed a quiet fornicatorium. They say it is a fertility rite. The singer goes into a trance-like state. We don't quite know what will happen once the frenzied activity begins."

    Druids from across the country will descend on the Custard Factory - Birmingham's hub for creative and media companies - for the celebration which goes on until 3am Sunday.

    The fertility festival will centre on a 40ft high Green Man sculpture made from real plants at the site.

    Daytime events start at 3pm on Saturday and include stalls selling Druid and pagan craft, music and rhythm from harp and drums, incantations, invocations and a bouncy castle.

    Billed as a "perfect day out for the whole family", the evening pagan service begins at 8.30pm when druid priestess Emma Restall Orr will lead a special renewal rite to mark the progression of life. That will be followed by live music from Arctic Sun, before Inkubus Sukkubus take to the stage at about 10.30pm.

    Rhiannon Biddulph, of the UK Pagan Association, said: "There are certain festivals were we celebrate the creation of life where you have to have sex. "Most pagans have a fairly relaxed attitude to sex."

    But a spokesman for the Church of England in Birmingham said: "It is difficult to believe that anyone, pagan or otherwise, would include a sex show as part of a 'family day out'.

    "It seems the Druids have overdosed on the magic mushrooms when arranging this event. It beggars belief that this kind of tackiness and tawdriness is being promoted as a cultural family
    event."


    FORNICATORIUM I think i have a new favorite word!!

    " excuse me ladys, would any of you like to tour the fornicatorium?"
    Seems like a fun time. found a pic of the lead singer, who would not what to see her rollin' in the fornicatorium ?
     

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  7. KEN COTRONA

    KEN COTRONA Well-Known Member

    here is a pic of the opening musician.
     

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