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Hay Festival Diary – Day 2: 27th May
- 8.45am
SSP is up early to catch A.A. Gill who chats about beetles (a "middle
class" species) and lampoons golf, the Japanese and "country
people". He’s at his puerile and contemptuous best. The Maldives
is "Cheshire with no clothes on"; Cheshire itself is full of
bars propped up by Carol Vorderman lookalikes with lips pumped full of
chicken fat and his best mate, Jeremy Clarkson, can’t tell the difference
between performing cunnilingus and eating his own tie
- 11.30am
Wandering past the Penguin books stand we catch sight of four madcap funsters
in the throws of a vigorous game of Bookchase- the UK’s best loved board
game for bookworms. To us it’s a literary rip off of Trivial Pursuit but
they are loving it. It’s like Martin Amis is walking among us
- 12.30pm
It’s very cold and SSP’s feet are wetter than Robin Ince
- 2pm
SSP is relieved to see that immaturity is not dead at the Hay Festival.
In the press tent someone has added a comedy beard and ‘tasche to a picture
of David Mitchell (the author…sadly) on a nearby copy of The Observer
- 5pm
SSP chases up an interview with Now Show regular Marcus Brigstocke. Unexpectedly
the PR comes through for us and we are ushered through into a makeshift
interview room wishing we’d prepared something in advance. Brigstocke
is a gent – charming, self-effacing and, most importantly, chatty- relieving
relieving us of our duty to do journalistic stuff, like, you know, ask
questions and that
- 7pm
Free beer…at last
