Festival focus
Success for first Pirate Day on Eastbou
O
rganised by Drop In The Ocean (Pub On The Pier) in Eastbourne, a successful Pirate Day took place on 14 August in aid of St Wilfred’s Hospice, an independent charity providing palliative care to local people. Also benefitting from the event’s piratical activities was the town’s Bonfire Society. Eastbourne falls between Bognor Regis and Hastings as the sunniest town in England and the Pirate Day didn’t disappoint, with good weather for visitors,
who had dressed up to enjoy a variety of free entertainment and down a drink or two in the open air at the Rum Bar (Pimms Bar for the wenches). During the morning, lusty buccaneers were treated to a performance by Cherry Dance Studio, which holds dance and fitness classes at its premises in Wish Road, Eastbourne, and they were followed by an earnumbing broadside from the Pentacle Drummers. At noon, The Shamolies, a fun-focussed festival band, struck up the music, followed by The Jackals, who play
Pirates were on hand to save performers from the Cherry grave under Eastbourne Pier (picture courtesy of Rob She
blues with bite, but the evening belonged to The Captain’s Beard, who played to a packed pub
until the sun went down beyond Beachy Head. Those who attended Pirate Day on Eastbourne
A ‘marriage’ on the fie
The Military Odyssey held at the Kent Event Centre in Detling spans a vast period of global conflict from the marching legions of Rome to the battle tanks of modern warfare. The 200acre site is promoted as ‘the most flexible and versatile event space in Kent’, with over 7,000 square metres under cover, but it almost never hosts weddings. As mentioned in the feature on Sheppey Pirates in the previous issue, the
crew would be returning to camp at the Military Odyssey at the end of August and decided that two of their members deserved to be wed on the battlefield. Tim Jones and Lisa Bradley have been attempting to tie the knot for three years, but have been constantly scuppered by the plague from Far Cathay and Lisa’s Father becoming seriously ill before passing away. So, it was planned to hold
New venue for Germa
Following a successful pirate festival at Zülpich in 2019, Winterhoffs, the German organiser of Pirate Rendez-Vous, was forced to postpone in 2020 due to the 12 12 1 2 Pirate Plunder ● May 2019
effects of the plague from Far Cathay. Then, following protracted negotiations, had to cancel its participation with Seepark Zülpich GmbH this year.
