17 again with "Heaven 17"

I'm not really one for the posed photo. I find it really annoying when people start with the "right, all stand over there, watch the birdie, hold it, hold it, smile" so I never subject others to it - hence the photos I've got here of our friends Sue and Pete are surreptitiously obtained! Dan would say 'unauthorised'! They're both looking off to the right, where a group of people old enough to know better were getting so blathered that by the end of the night, 2 had fallen off their chairs into the picnic table, and one had fallen headlong into the bin!

What was the occasion for all this raucousness in so many 40-somethings? It was the "Back to the 80's" party at Tatton Park.

SUPERB! An excuse to remind yourself that you know all the lyrics to 'Circle in the Sand' by Belinda Carlisle, and an opportunity to fall in love with Martin Fry (from ABC, as if you didn't know) in his silver suit, all over again.

5 bands/acts were on the bill - Heaven 17, Go West, Belinda Carlisle, ABC and topping the bill were the Human League. Really superb.

Each band came on and did their top 4 or 5 songs - the ones you remember - and then off again! It started at 7 and ended about 10:30 with some lovely fireworks over the lake.

We had 'priority parking' which meant we were only about 10 cars from the entrance to the event, brilliant for not having to carry the pic-nic gear very far, and therefore almost the 1st back in the car at the end. Unfortunately, this meant that we had to weave our way through the largest crowd of absolutely mega p*ssed people I've seen in a long time, on their way back to the pleb carparks or out along the track to the Knutsford entrance to the park where taxis and lifts were awaiting their wobbly arrival.

A really superb evening and thanks to Sue and Pete for inviting us! Who's up for next year?