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Hey Guys,

If you weren’t at the meeting last night or if you were but weren’t listening, then we are looking at going to the Doctor Who Experience in London the weekend of July 8-10

Travelling down there is still being looked at but I’ve been doing a little research on the Greyhound buses. They depart from Buchannan Bus Station about 10pm and arrive in Victoria, London about 7 in the morning and the prices will be not more than £40 return. They only allow 3 months in advance booking online but if we most of us go that option we could be getting a return for as little as £20 each. Several people are already thinking of making their own way down so we will arrange to meet up in London in case you want to make your own travel arrangements.

Ticket for the exhibition will be no more than £20 and we can get a discount for a block booking but we’re thinking the Saturday.

We were also thinking of staying overnight on the Saturday, making a weekend of it, and returning on the Sunday night. So I’ve been looking at the cost of rooms. On the Sunday we are thinking of doing a Doctor Who themed tourist day. If everyone is in favour there is even a company that does this, although we may have a better time making it for ourselves.

If we get twin rooms and share then the big hoteliers (Premier Inn, Travelodge, Holiday Inn, Hilton) would be about £90 per room WITHOUT breakfast. So I’ve also looked at the B and B option. For double rooms per person and the average price is £45 per person per night, including brekkie.

Most of the places I’ve looked are in the Kensington area which is no more than 3 miles from the Olympia, where the Doctor Who Experience is.

It looks like a spend of about £90 plus whatever food and drink you decide.

We will leave all the travel arrangements up to yourselves but we want to get enough people to commit so we can get a discount for a block booking on the exhibition. To this end if you are interested we would need to get deposits by all concerned of £10 by the first April meeting so we can get numbers and get booking, as the sooner we book the cheaper it would be.

Let me know what you think

Barry

The last proper weekly meeting is this Sunday (27th June) at the CP, 7pm.
It’s Doctor Who finale weekend and I’m sure lots of you want to come along and say what you think.
No… oh well the usual question of who’s coming is valid again and there’s a little poll for a quick tally this time too.

Our next meeting will be the regular monthly meeting on 4th July (yes I know its next week but my brain says monthly… :p ) at the usual place, usual time and then our next meeting will be…

…18th July. You’ve asked for fortnightly meetings you’ve got them. The additional meetings are designed to start us doing other things but we’ll get to that in more detail as we go along.

So put this date in your diary, 18th July, Crystal Palace, 7pm.

Cheers the noo

Barry

Hi everyone!

Sorry I haven’t got round to blogging for a while. I’ve been busily beavering away, making sure by the time May comes around we give you all the best Doctor Who convention ever seen in Scotland!

And I’m now quite remarkably excited to be able to announce our 11th guest for this year’s event.

Quite probably the most popular producer in the history of Doctor Who, the man behind the first “Golden Age” of Doctor Who, none other than Philip Hinchcliffe has kindly agreed to join us in May for a rare convention appearance, subject to work and personal commitments.

Philip was producer of the show between 1974 and 1977 and oversaw Tom’s first three years as the Doctor, producing some of the show’s most iconic and popular episodes during that time.

Our guest list, subject to work and personal commitments, is now;

• Tom Baker - The Fourth Doctor
• Colin Baker - The Sixth Doctor
• Sylvester McCoy - The Seventh Doctor
• Sophie Aldred - Ace
• John Leeson - The voice of K9
• Richard Franklin - Captain Mike Yates
• Philip Hinchcliffe - Producer, 1974-1977
• Andrew Cartmel - Script Editor, 1987-1989
• Tom Goodman-Hill - The Reverend Golightly / The Vespiform (The Unicorn and the Wasp)
• Michael Cochrane - Lord Cranleigh (Black Orchid) - Redvers Fenn-Cooper (Ghost Light)
• Prentis Hancock - Reporter (Spearhead from Space) - Vaber (Planet of the Daleks) - Salamar (Planet of Evil) - Captain of the Guard (The Ribos Operation)

This event marks Tom Baker’s first Doctor Who convention in Scotland since 1993 and will be the first time a Scottish convention has ever had three Doctors on the same guest list!

Add in a rare convention appearance by one of the show’s most popular producers, Philip Hinchcliffe, and a Doctor Who convention debut for Tom Goodman-Hill, along with many huge names from throughout the history of Doctor Who, and it’s an event not to be missed!

Tickets are still available from www.glasgowwho.co.uk/aog4.html and the sooner you buy yours, the sooner we can tell how many more guests we can go for… and how big they’re going to be!

I think we have a truly great guest list shaping up here… it would be a shame for any of you to miss out!

Cheers!

Al.

Well, what a finish to Ten’s Era. I must say I really enjoyed it.
Don’t forget the next Glasgow Who meeting is on 10th January at the Crystal Palace, 36 Jamaica Street in Glasgow from 7pm onwards. Don’t forget also that Army of Guests 4 tickets are now on sale at http://www.glasgowwho.co.uk/aog4.html so get buying if you want to be part of our first 2 day convention!
Oh, one more thing.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Barry Stanton, Online Coordinator, Glasgow Who

Well,I know it’s been a while but it is time for a little update from me. Since the 15^th November there has been so much Doctor Who I’ve not even had time to breathe.
The Waters of Mars:- Well it was better than Planet of the Dead and I actually liked the last 15 minutes unlike most of the others on the forum.
Dreamland:- Good so far and Georgia Moffett has certainly been taking American Accent lessons from her mother
Army of Guests:- The “Four Who Rule” met up last night (23^rd November 2009) and apart from celebrating the birthday of our favourite show we have started on plans for AOG4. Yes, it’s public now and the publicity machine has started but I’m gonna say no more at the moment as it’s in the VERY early stages.
So, after a quiet Summer it’s about to start in earnest including The End of Time at Christmas and I’ll be there on December 6^th so I hope to see you all there.
BFN
Barry

Due to a visit to Glasgow by our good friend Clarkie and his chums from Aberdeen our November Meeting has been put back by one week.

So the November Meeting of Glasgow Who will now be

SUNDAY NOVEMBER THE 8TH 

Got that? That`s

SUNDAY NOVEMBER THE 8TH

Well, it’s started.

First up can I saying hello to Louie, Pauline and Christine and thank them for coming to the meeting. Sorry I didn’t get the chance to speak to you Louie but hopefully I will be able to chat more next month.
It’s nice to have new people and it just makes for a different atmosphere to the meetings and I hope this is the start of things to come.
Oh, the Fan Fiction section of the forum has to get into swing again and I’ve totally forgot about it! That’s what happens when other commitments take over and to be perfectly honest I do feel a little guilty.
As I said to Christine on Sunday the group isn’t just a monthly meeting, we have an online presence with the Forum, The Blog, Bebo, Twitter, MySpace, Meetup, Facebook and the website of course. Just because we’re a Glasgow based group doesn’t meet we have to be local in our activity, it’s something we should be getting involved with all the time all through the month and at the end of the day it will enrich the meetings help our events. We have a good group of people who are passionate about Doctor Who at the meetings and lets make a move use of all online sites we are at things and raise our profile, raise our self esteem and ultimately raise the enjoyment of the group.

Fan Fiction mods, I’ll be emailing you shortly…

Barry

Well, what a weekend that was!

Spent Saturday & Sunday @ Collectormania at the Braehead Arena. Not an experience I`d like to repeat anytime soon! OK so we got a free table but we were tucked away in a corner and were pretty much overlooked most of the weekend. There were quite a few people took flyers but we only sold two tickets for our Nabil Event. We really need to promote this event as much as we can over the next week as it`s going to be a cracker and it would be a real shame if we have to risk cancelling it. It`s really not enough for people to say to us that we can count on them being there, we need ticket sales in advance. Alan has put a lot of time effort and money into organising this and it`s going to be a cracking event so please get your tickets by this weekend at the latest.

On a brighter note, Sophie Aldred & Mary Tamm made brief visits to our table [Peter Davison was probably too busy] and there is just the faintest possibility we may be able to organise something if Mary comes to Glasgow on her book signing tour for her autobiography…

To quote the opening line of Dragonfire - you lucky, lucky people!

 Glasgow is awash with events and activities for the discerning Doctor Who fan over the next month or so.

 We kick off with the next meeting of the local Torchwood fan club this Thursday evening, run by the lovely Leigh. Just pop along to the Crystal Palace from 7pm and look out for people talking Torchwood at the comfy couches by the window. Beers will be imbibed, chat will be partaken of and a good time will generally be had by all comers. Lovely!

Then, a little over a week later, the sheer loveliness of Collectormania Glasgow once more descends upon those of us lucky enough to be in the vicinity of the Braehead Arena over the weekend of 29 August. Doctor Who guests confirmed to date include Peter Davison, Mary Tamm, Sophie Aldred and Dave Prowse… (I’m led to believe the latter has also appeared in some film series or other but I wouldn’t know about that. Star Warts or something. I think it’s the shocking story of celebrities in space contracting a variety of disfiguring carbunkles.) It’s well worth popping along as, apart from anything else, your very own local Dr Who group will once more have a table at the event, plying our wares. (That’s us, by the way, in case you hadn’t guessed…) We should hopefully have some exciting news by then so please pop over and have a chat!

Meanwhile, over in Edinburgh, there’s still time to catch the lovely Katy Manning in her one woman show at the fringe, hot on the heels of the wonderful event Martin and the Edinburgh group arranged at the start of the month.

Then we high tail it into September (already?! It feels as though May’s Army of Guests were only yesterday…) And week one, as always, sees our triumphant return to The Crystal Palace from 7pm onwards on Sunday 5 September. I’m sure uncle Bryan has been slaving away in his meetings lab, concocting something exciting for us all to partake in amidst the booze and chatter… but I shall leave it to his good self to reveal the results of his dabblings…

And, of course, the end of September (the 27th, to be precise) sees our next event of our very own, The Whole Shaban - An Afternoon with Nabil Shaban, between 14:30 and 19:30 at Trader Joe’s on Hope Street. Amidst the traditional blend of interviews, autographs and photographs, we have one or two very exciting little additions… which we can’t tell you about just yet! And all this for just a tenner! Bargain! Buy your tickets quickly or you will miss out on a fantastic day!

And, not wishing to go too far into the future just yet, but fans of the recently released Delta and the Bannermen will be interested to hear that Agent Hawke himself, Morgan Deare, will be appearing in The Stripper at the King’s Theatre in the first week of October. Ticket prices for the play start at a very reasonable £14.75.

So keep your eyes peeled for even more Dalek-table goodness and we’ll see you at one (if not all!) of these fabulous events!

Cheers!

Al.

Yesterday 

Well that was fun last night wasn`t it? I`ve posted my thoughts on last night`s meeting in the Forum so head over there and check it out!

The Crystal Palace was like an oven last night and they really need to do something about it. I was sweating like a pig, never mind the nerves of having to be Bamber Paxman for Whoniversity Challenge and hoping that the whole thing didn`t fall flat on it`s arse! Luckily it didn`t.

Bit disappointed that John Hughes & David Cherry weren`t there you naughty,naughty boys tsk tsk - but great to meet Clarkie and his missus. Let`s hope we get to see some new faces next month!

Today 

Well my copy of The War Games arrived bang on midday today so as soon as I finish this I`m off to watch all ten episodes! Really looking forward to this and a bit surprised that only me, Clarkie and Raymond were looking forward to getting this today. I got mine from Play.com for only £12.99, which for three discs is a bargain and a half!

Unlike the previous three-discer Lost In Time, WG is in a normal sized case with the two discs covering the story either side of one of those hinged flippy things. [Ok a poor description I know, but you`ll know what I mean when you see it]. The great thing about this is it means you are saved the hassle of taking out one disc to get to another, a great layout idea so bonus points to 2E for that. Don`t forget you can post your reviews over at the Forum.

Tonight

Torchwood: Weans O` The Errth is oan the nicht oan BeeBeeSeeWan at nine o`cloak. Mind and tell ua a` whit ye think oh it ower oan thu forum, ken.

 Next Time

The next meeting is Sunday August 2nd, same time and place as usual. Under discussion will be :

• The Edinburgh Katy Manning event earlier in the day
• Torchwood: Children of the Earth
• War Games/Remembrance of the Daleks on DVD
• The start of filming for Series Five
• Matt Smith in costume
• The name of Karen Gillan`s character
• Whatever is in the latest DWM
• Anything else we can think of!