Tickets bought - thanks for the link Jarvgirl. I had it in my head (prob from DocFest website) that tix went on sale in early May which I was obviously totally wrong about!
Hm, I could get a "cheap" flight from Cologne to Manchester on Friday, 6.6.2014. Is there anything faster than a bus (more than 2 hours) to Sheffield. I don't understand the page with the trains.
But this whole effort would be rewarding (I don't know the right formulation for this, sorry), if I could met some people here from the forum. Otherwise it would be too much, "just to see a movie.
in my experience of Q &Aas with Jarvis he just tends to get a bit bored (rightly so) and people ask stupid questions. At the Shuffle fest in Mile End he took the piss out of one woman for asking a ridiculously long and boring question.
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They seem a lot more animated when there's several of them together, they witter much more between each other in a rather endearing way. The quality of the Q&A probably depends a bit on how it's organised. There was one on 5live where they seemed to have got people to submit written questions beforehand, then the producers chose a couple that fitted their preconceptions and it was exceptionally dull (did anyone know there was once an incident with a very famous American pop star??). But then if a gaggle of uber-fans ask really nerdy questions about something that happened in 1984, the rest of the audience will probably start chucking things, so there needs to be some happy medium. Maybe you need a leading question like, "Can you demonstrate your funny little dance?".
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Exactly right, Fran. I agree with all that. I was wondering about the Q & A on the tube on the way home from work and thinking how dull it might end up if not handled well. There needs to be some originality in the questions but not so much that it alienates large chunks of the audience. I always think they should ask Candida more questions than they do because she has a unique position in the band, being female. I haven't ever read much about that, have you? I bet there are loads of stories she could tell that would be really funny and interesting.