It's Vampire Night!

 

It's Vampire Night! Let's dance, cavort and drink fresh blood!*

“Tonight is Vampire Night. In Romania the Strigoii or Vampires are said to leave their graves to seek out their former homes and victims. So hang out your garlic, put out your crosses… for the vampires are prowling and they’re looking for you. Be safe. And, if you can’t be safe, then dance, dance to these Vampire tunes. Happy Vampire Night!” – The Kalendar Host

With tunes from the likes of The Upsetters, Soft Cell, Gene Page, Rupert Lally, Bauhaus, Vampire Sound Incorporated, The Hues Corporation, Francois de Roubaix, Rob Zombie, Cobra Verde, Tangerine Dream, Gorillaz, Emil Richards, Beth Orton, Jonathan Elias, Radiohead, Gerard McCann, Tito and Tarantula, David Whitaker, Hot Blood, Jace Everett, Dirty Pretty Things, Barenakedladies, Jason Segel, Michael Vickers, Nouvelle Vague, Ministry, Michael Rubini and Denny Jaeger.

*For vegans you could try Ribena, vegan red wine or Linda McArtney's Blood Substitute (TM)

Vampire Night - Coming Soon

 

It's November 22nd! Play with your organ today!

Thank you Saint Cecilia! Little did you know when you seduced that angel with your music that you would change the world! For your pains (being roasted in a bath and poorly beheaded*) we get to enjoy the grandiose sounds of the organ to this day.

*It took her three days to die. That is poor axemanship.

 

November 15th - Are your pants on Fire?

It's a great day for liars!

If you fancy a go then you could be in with a chance of winning a whetstone!

Runners up will get to ride home with the Bishop of Carlisle after he has finished his anti-lying sermon.

Good luck.

If you can't make it to Temple Sowerby in the past you could attend the World's Biggest Liar Competition in the Lake District.  This contest is apparently over 150 years old and was reportedly started by Wordsworth and the Lakeland Poets who thought that the locals were the biggest fibbers in the UK. (Politicians, lawyers, estate agents and journalist need not apply.)

Source: Maypoles, Martyrs and Mayhem - Quentin Cooper and Paul Sullivan