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Hip hop karaoke
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| What: Hip Hop Karaoke |
| Where: The Social, Little Portland St |
| When: 16th July & every Thursday |
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Is your flow impeccable? Find out tonight and let it flow...
let it flow... at the Hip Hop Karaoke night at The Social.
Don your best B-Boy togs, step up to the mike and put your inimitable stamp on wordy ditties such
as Me Myself & I (De La Soul), My Name Is (Eminem),
Like a Pimp (David Banner), In Da Club (50 Cent), and It
was a Good Day (Ice Cube). All rappers get a free cold beer and there's
the chance to win some pretty fly prizes. Remember, 8-mile style: 'You only get
one shot, do not miss your chance to blow/This opportunity
comes once in a lifetime yo.'
While you're there: Perfect your pronunciation while browsing
the BBC shop at Broadcasting House (Portland Place).
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Snail racing
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| What: World Snail Racing Championships |
| Where: Congham, Norfolk |
| When: 18th July |
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Ready. Steady. Slow! It's time for the World Snail
Racing Championships! As organiser Hilary Scarse says: 'Congham is to snail racing
what Newmarket is to horse racing.' Last year Heikki-the-snail won in three minutes
28 seconds, but the bar was set by Archie in 1995 (two minutes). Anyone with a
willing snail can take part, and local farmer Neil Riseborough keeps order, tests
for drugs, starts the races, and ensures there's no cheating. The prize? A
tankard of lettuce. It's all part of the Congham summer fair, so if your snail fails you can
always console yourself with a go on the tombola.
Poke your nose around nearby Sandringham House, the Queen's country pad.
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Keep on trucking
| What: Truck |
| Where: Hill Farm, Steventon, Oxfordshire |
| When: 25th & 26th July |
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Truck is a family-run festival on
a working farm, which just happens to be starring Ash and
Supergrass, plus eclectic acts ranging from Vieux Farka Touré
(son of Ali) to Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei).
There are six stages, one hosted by the velvet-voiced
Bob Harris, another in a manure-scented barn. The local
Rotary Club provide the food and the vicar sells ice-cream.
Weekend tickets are a sweet £70 and last year the
truckers raised over £50,000 for good causes.
Truck fact: the name doesn’t come from the flatbed trucks
serving as a stage, but from a compilation CD
called 'Trucking Greats'.
Hang out at fantastical Blenheim Palace,
and recharge in Capability Brown's rolling seas of parkland.
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Donkeys & the dying city
| What: Tonna di Bagnoregio |
| Where: Civita di Bagnoregio, Lazio |
| When: 13th September |
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Forget Siena's famous Palio (horse race), and head instead to a far
more enticingly obscure quadruped competition,
La Tonna di Civita in the
tiny town of Civita di Bagnoregio (Lazio). And make sure you do
it soon, because Civita is dying, built on an outcrop of soft
rock that is slowly disintegrating. The remaining houses are still
inhabited by a few hardy pensioners, who are waiting to see who
goes first. Nevertheless, on 31st May and 13th September, the town
seethes with people, there’s a carnival atmosphere, and donkeys are
raced around the town piazza, apparently for religious reasons
(Madonna Liberatrice and SS Crocifisso).
See the beautiful humbug-striped duomo (cathedral)
at Orvieto in Umbria, only 25km away.
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