The ‘Lil ‘Ole Archive Of Everything – 2000-2009
2009
Bent and Bongs 2009
The 20th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash (29 – 31 January, 2009 at The Formby Hall).
The Pete Waterman era.
2009 Photos
2009 Photos
Thursday
Friday
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Night
2008
Bent and Bongs 2008
The 19th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash (24 – 26 January, 2008 at The Formby Hall).
The discovery of Screach (Fruli Strawberry, Fruli Cranberry, and Timmermans Peche).
2008 Photos
2008 Photos
Thursday
Friday
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Night
2007
Bent and Bongs 2007
The 18th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash (25 – 27 January, 2007 at The Formby Hall).
2007 Photos
2007 Photos
Thursday
Friday
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Night
2006
Bent and Bongs 2006
The 17th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash (26 – 28 January, 2006 at The Formby Hall).
2006 Photos
2006 Photos
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Night
For a reference point in time, from here backwards we are at least two years before Apple introduced the first ever iPhone in June 2007.
Going back earlier than 2006 there is an increasing drop-off in the quality of the photos. These were the early days of digital cameras, which were almost all little point-and-shoot types. Serious photographers were still using 35mm SLRs and weren’t for lugging them around the beer festival and then spending days afterwards scanning everything to digital.
Some of these little point-and-shoots also came with their own quirks, or issues depending on your point of view. From Wikipedia: A common problem with the DC3200 was that the auto flash was too powerful. Pictures that were taken indoors would often be overexposed. And heck don’t we know that. Plenty of the 2004 photos were taken (according to Lightroom) on a Kodak DC3200 and oh boy did it take some Photoshopping to try to rescue them. Even then the results aren’t brilliant. The history is there, even if at times it looks a bit grisly.
Sorry if we made you look bad folks 🙁 We did our best.
2005
Bent and Bongs 2005
The 16th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash (28 – 30 January, 2005 at The Formby Hall).
The Peter Reid era.
2005 Photos
2005 Photos
Thursday
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Night
2004
Bent and Bongs 2004
The 15th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash (29 – 31 January, 2004 at The Formby Hall).
2004 Photos
2004 Photos
Thursday
Friday
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Night
2003
Bent and Bongs 2003
The 14th Bent and Bongs Beer Bash (30 January – 1 February, 2003 at The Formby Hall).
2003 Photos
2003 Photos
Saturday Afternoon
