Fish Fingers and Custard Issue 1 - Fish Fingers and Custard Fanzine
Fish Fingers and Custard Issue 1 - Fish Fingers and Custard Fanzine
Fish Fingers and Custard Issue 1 - Fish Fingers and Custard Fanzine
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<strong>Fish</strong> <strong>Fingers</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Custard</strong> <strong>Issue</strong> 1<br />
Convention Report: Invasion – May 2010<br />
I’ve attended the Invasion conventions organised<br />
by 10 th Planet Events since 2005, but this year’s<br />
event marked a change from the usual format of<br />
holding panels <strong>and</strong> signing sessions throughout<br />
the day <strong>and</strong> instead had the signings in the<br />
morning <strong>and</strong> all the panels in the afternoon.<br />
I found this a welcome change <strong>and</strong> led to the<br />
event being way less stressful with the usual<br />
convention woes of ‘I’m missing that, because<br />
I’m doing this’.<br />
My day began with a train journey from my home<br />
in Cambridge then a half hour tube journey to<br />
Barking, where the convention was being held.<br />
Barking Abbey Comprehensive School (where<br />
the event was held) is an easy twenty minute<br />
straight walk from Barking Station.<br />
I’d opted just to get the one autograph <strong>and</strong> after registering at the front desk, the autograph<br />
rooms were easy to find <strong>and</strong> queues seemed short too. I queued up <strong>and</strong> got Peter Purves’s<br />
scrawl, he was friendly asking everyone where they’d come from to the event.<br />
I slightly regretted my decision to get just the one autograph, as I passed by a nearby room<br />
which saw Fraser Hines signing, but as I like to get photos signed (<strong>and</strong> I’m trying to save<br />
my money!) I realised there’d be other such opportunities.<br />
The weather for the first half of the day was glorious <strong>and</strong> I sat outside in the sun to eat my<br />
lunch <strong>and</strong> kill time, until the afternoon session started at 1pm.<br />
Some have said on Gallifrey Base (<strong>and</strong> I’m tempted to agree with them) that a bit of<br />
entertainment could have been provided to fill the gap between the morning <strong>and</strong> afternoon<br />
sessions - an episode screening or some highlights of previous events would have been<br />
welcome. I know from having attended Bad Wolf (another convention ran by 10 th Planet)<br />
in the past, that they are not adverse to such an idea.<br />
Although the panels were meant to start at 1pm, they were running several minutes late,<br />
so I took this opportunity to head to the dealers room <strong>and</strong> buy a couple of CD’s from Big<br />
Finish, who were due on stage first, but told me they’d yet to be called.<br />
The Big Finish panel finally kicked off some twenty minutes late <strong>and</strong> consisted of Marc<br />
Platt, Rob Shearman, David Richardson, Lisa Bowerman <strong>and</strong> Nick Briggs. It was<br />
surprisingly interesting, even if the guests were distracted at one point by an attendee<br />
falling asleep near the front of the crowd!