The post PLAY thread

Hey! Just dropping by to say WOW!! The Play festival was amazing.. I enjoyed every single second! It was so inspiring to see so many great people spinning their toys, the workshops were a brilliant idea..
The atmosphere was perfect, chilled out and fun! Fun fun fun!!! All the people were groovy and friendly..
Can't wait until next year!!!!!! *Bounce bounce*

hee hee

go play

spanner - i've had exactly the same problem...so yeah i'll just post on here instead. hope thats ok...

im having that prob too

I've left this thread open as I completely understand that we need a 'wow that was cool!' thread here as well - seeing how many HoP people were there.

If you do have an suggestions then please PM Dunc or use the Contact form on the Play site if you can so all the info goes towards the fab Play team.


Oh, and... "wow that was a cool weekend!"

i miss everyone already!
people in the real world don't hug as well as hoppers do!

I had so much fun. It was the best weekend ever and i wish it had lasted longer.

hey play was fun! Im glad I went now it was touch and go with my job . but I got there and had fun and im being shouted to go so byeeeeeeee

loved the festival fav moments were definatly

contact fire wheel barrow
durbs body popping
and 12ft contact fire staff on stilts

can't wait till next year

Hi everyone!

Thank you all for making the first PLAY so amazing. I can't thank Dunc enough for thinking about, planning bossing me about. Everyone needs a massive hug!



Let us hear your comments and feedback, please use the PLAY site though, as it'll keep all the ideas and comments in the same place!

i am going to post this on the play site too but i thought others may see it too.
first i seem to have someones purple and black stiped sock poi.
second thanks to everyone at play for being really cool and many of you teaching and entertaining me, and thanks to dunc and sym and all the others for making it happen

on a side note i have a great anti tan of an eye patch

hee hee i bet you do miss frogette - post us a pic

Hello everyone!

I'm almost lost for words, it was just sooo amazing! I'm really fulfilled to hear how happy everyone was with PLAY as a whole. We've learned a massive amount to understand what will make it a success again next year. We will be making many improvements, hopfeully so subtle you guys won't even notice you'll be having so much fun


The hugest of thanks to everyone who helped me over the weekend, each person helping was as much of an integral part of it's success as the idea for play itself. From gate crew to artistic direction from those in the know. I love you guys from the bottom of my heart
SYM I love you dude! You've been key almost since day one, I'm proud to call you a close friend and it's all thanks to PLAY fest. Dan, Matty and Rossco....you know I couldn't have done it without ya, the best slaves I could hope for Rob (bluecat) you have been an inspiration! Your input for the show with Dror on Saturday made it what it was. It wouldn't have had half the impact it did have without you To all the crew who helped out from Tuesday till Sunday, from those who I grabbed to run a quick errand for me to those working the gate for hours and making sure everyone ran as smoothly as possible.
And a big shout to Dom, the excapades on saturday morning were much better dealt with thanks to your knowledge, experience and calm temprament. Thanks for helping to resolve a very difficult situation and hopefully making one persons life much better in the long run And not to forget, the media crew who were busy all weekend and I'm sure got some awesome footage (Remember if you have any videos or pictures to send in send make them avaiable online or send to 2bags on the address on the play DVD thread on the play forum)

I can say that I've probably never been hugged as many times in my whole life as I have been during the last weekend at PLAY. There was just sooooo much love and happines over the weekend I was left (almost) speechless!

Thanks to everyone who came, everyone who contributed behind the scenes and every performer for their fantastic shows, they were so unique, proffesional and inspiring how the hell will I improve the show for next year?!?!?!

Remember the dates for next year, all going well it'll be over the weekend of 23rd/24th/25th June 2006 (no Glasto you see ) so plans are underway for a site that doesn't have the noise limitations we experienced in Shrewsbury after middnight, I'll try not to goof up the electrics so we don't lose our lights again (a very silly error by me caused that on Friday I'm afraid ) still has lots of space to play in and explore, lots of facilities to make your time there as enjoyable as possible and still be easy for folks to get to. Which reminds me, sorry about the crappy directions, blame multimap not me Oh we're also hoping to let everyone onsite on Thursday evening with hometime on Monday.

I've booked the sun again but you may have to dance for the poi gods a few more times to make sure we get it

Thanks you thank you thank you all


p.s. I'm never getting my arse out in public ever again

p.p.s. please let us know everything you were happy with and everything you weren't happy with from the weekend. It's the first time I've ever done anything like this and we want to be able to improve this year on year and can't without your comments so let us know on the play forum or by any other means you know how to use. You all have my phone number too so feel free to use it

and before I forget, thanks to HoP supremo Malcolm for providing the prizes for the games session (except for our own poi and staff of course) and helping us get our fire staffs made, we sold out of them completely!

Does anybody know the link to the actual 'play' website?

(Sorry, I had to... )

Ah,it was a great weekend indeed,there was a nice balance to it,didnt make as many workshops as I would have liked,but met loads of friendly people and had a lot of fun. Will defenitly come to the next one too!

I posted on the Play website, but couldnt not post here too