"Dick. That's an interesting name". -Breathless Mahoney, (played by Madonna), in Dick Tracey
An honour to have you aboard Sir.
Great to be able to chat to the brains behind the show. We attend events up & down the country as regular punters & try to give a balanced, honest view of what we find. We're not journalists, just the paying public, so we rarely get to quiz the organisers. The information we give out is just what we've been able to glean from advertising fliers, word of mouth & the odd internet search.
I wouldn't have a clue how to begin organising a show. It all looks very easy when you pay your entry fee & wander in the gate, but I know it's nothing of the sort! Popham works very well -it's fun & informal. The organisation's enough to keep things ticking along nicely but loose enough not to be corporate & regimented. I've been to shows where it's frowned on to start your bike up once you've put it on display & you have to park within a specially marked out little box. We all love engines & grease & oil & grubbiness. We want to see the machines being ridden, tinkered with & shown off.
Popham's lucky in that it has that extra angle -it's a working airstrip with a whole other array of machinery for us petrolheads to ogle. Something different that most punters don't normally get to see close up. The biggest thrill of the show this year for me was catching the Hurricane's fly-past. I don't know much about aircraft but that really made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Beautiful. My only observation would be that I remember more vintage planes in previous years. A line up of bi-planes at one end of the field with several flying in & out during the day. As it's a classic bike event, maybe you could invite more classic planes? They certainly add to the whole "period" feel. We'll definitely be back next year. Who knows, we might even have a couple of our own projects finished by then!
