Marketeers Carnival Club

Aaron James, Adrian Horne, Alan Windsor, Andy Vallender, Ben Whitemore, Ben Wright, Brendon Goddard, Chris Singleton, Dan Ecclestone, Dean Mills, Des Turner, Ian Barber, Jamie Turner, Jordan Rawles, Kevin Groves, Martin Bowerman, Matthew Knapp, Nick Bell, Nick Hallett, Steve Adlam, Steve Wright, Tim Knapp, Tim Ridgement.

Gerrard ‘Chunky’ Dunster, David Kirk Jnr, Dean Waite, Kane Rogers, Ollie Mitchell, Tony Seabourne, Allan Elson, Andy Brown, Steve Payne, Andrew ‘Derick’ White, Bob Anthony, Jason Brazewell, Jeff Brown, Bob Baker, Anne & Steve Caddick, Garry Martin, Gary Chidgey, Claire England, John Crocker, Daniel Cullen, Danny Passmore, Phil New, Jason Davy, G Reaper, Darryl Taylor, Rob Ellis, Emma Britton, Stephen Vickery, Fred Henderson, B Dowell, Phil Dunster, Gary Ridgement, Adrian Howells, Bob Howells, Glyn Hughes, Darren Bennet, Jason Bulpin, Paul Hibbert, Wayne Norman, Jason Butt, Jason White, John Turner, Kenny Rogers, Kev Rawles, Lee Baker, Lee Cheffey, Lee Singleton, Ian Legg, Lee Savage, Mark ‘Dessie’ Mason, Paul Mapstone, Martin Rawle, Dean Paisey, Mike Butt, Mike West, Neil Underwood, Lyn Francis, Andy Preston, Paul Elson, Paul Radford, A House Phil Mills, Paul Brazewell, Mike Bawden, Rian Froud, Jon Froud, Richard Radford, D Vader, Paul Whitehead, Greg Daughton, Kenny Marsh, Tony Ringland, ‘Uncle’ Bob Williams, Sam Cox, Shaun Ford, Alan Chidgey, Steve Napper, Steve Trunks, Mandy Trunks, Yasmine Trunks, Paul Stubbs. Suzette Dunster, Teresa Wright, Terry Pickett, Tim Coles, Tony Cushing, Tracey Bryant, Lisa Cairns, Britts 2, Wombat, Cecil Elson, Brain Slocombe, Den Gore, Emma Francis, Elaine Dunster, Katie Hodge, Jayne & Traf Watts, Andreas & James @ The Blake Arms, Terry Groves & Watermans Garage, Roger Murphy, Darren Bennett, Jon Froud, Rian Froud.

Marketeers CC would like to thank all their sponsors for their continued support and we would also like to give a special thanks to the following – The Bridgwater Carnival Committee, Pentathalon Carnival Club, The Chameleon Trust, Jason Davie & Davies Engineering, Lee Singleton & all at TMB Pattens, Mike West & Somerset Carpenters and last but not least Traf, Jayne & all at the Old Market

Dressmakers: Suzette Dunster, Linda Roderick, Helen, Kim Ridgement, Teresa Wright, Stacey Knapp, Kathy Knapp

Musical director and music used: Tenpole Tudor – The Hayrick Song (DJ Wins Mega Mix)

The Marketeers Carnival Club would like to thank every single person and organisation who has helped us to come through the hardest year in the clubs history. Without the support and generosity of many people & various organisations it is highly unlikely that the club would still be in existence today. And for this help we are extremely grateful.

We would like to take this opportunity to apologise to the carnival viewing public for our inability to this year bring out an entry to the standard that you have come to expect from us, and which we expect from ourselves. However with all being well, we will be back with a BANG next year to celebrate the clubs 50th anniversary.

And finally we would like to apologise if we have missed anyone out, your help was sincerely appreciated and we apologise for the oversight. This has not been intentional and has only happened because The Club Captain is filling in the form with the hangover from hell.

Gordy Howells Cup (highest aggregate points for stage and road for clubs that come out of the top 5)

**Grenedier Cup Winner - Bridgwater Gangs and Features Cart personality of the year 2009

We are pleased to announce that today Sedgemoor District Council’s finest. Has today granted us Planning Permission to build a 80ft x 80ft new carnival shed on land at Bristol Rd. Work on the site we start on 23rd November (A week after Weston Carnival) all going well we hope to move the cart on to the site Easter weekend 2010 and start building a 100ft entry for the 2010 Carnival With the sacrifice the club has made on our 2009 Entry we have now have a little over half the cost of this project and could still do with your support.

Buy-a-Brick Scheme – A deadline of 1st December has been set for people to purchase bricks, so if you wish to be immortalised in Marketeers History you will need to purchase one by this date! As requested we are also accepting payments in instalments. Therefore if you haven’t got the money to spare in one lump sum, you can pay in monthly or weekly instalments, please speak to David Kirk about this venture.
Download a Buy a Brick Form

A Very big THANK YOU to everyone who has helped us leave Halfway Inn and to every one who is storing our equipment all over Somerset.

In an effort to raise funds for the re-location of the Marketeers Carnival Club cart building shed, The Marketeers Carnival Club in association with Etch-it of Bristol are pleased to announce a buy a brick scheme.

Each brick will be individually engraved with the message of your choice (maximum 2 lines 16 characters per line).

The bricks will be permanently displayed within a special area of the wall within the new shed and each owner of a brick will also receive an individually numbered certificate which will bare both the message engraved onto the Brick and the location within the specially designated area.

* Please note persons who have already made donations of £50.00 or over will receive a brick courtesy of the club.

The Marketeers Carnival club has recently been giving notice of
Intent by the Landlord of The Halfway Inn, for us to vacate the land
we have used since 1973.

Therefore for the first time in the clubs history we have
no-where to build a cart this year.

If you are able to assist us in anyway,
Be it, a temporary loan of land to build on, the supply of manual labour
Or perhaps a small cash donation or an interest free loan
(Loans are re-payable within 5 years starting October 2011,
final payment Oct 2016)
This would help to enable us to erect a new shed whilst still taking part in
Bridgwater Carnival this year. We would be extremely grateful.

B lend the club an interest free loan, which will be repaid in five
yearly installments these being the 1st of October 2011
until the 1st of October 2015 when the monies will have been
paid back in full

C Lend the club an interest free loan that will be
re-payable in full by the 1st of October 2019.

We are also investigating selling bricks to the new construction of the shed,
that will forever bare the name of the persons that purchased the bricks.

“Hi first can we say a big Thank-you to the person who donated to our paypal account in 2008 we raised a grand total of £1

We hope that we can do better in 2009 so we thought we would give you an incentive to donate. Our great plan is, that If we have not raised £100 by carnival this year, this web site will be replaced by a video of the Marketeers legendry bus chaser Kevin ‘Grover’ Grover Dancing naked and if you thought that was bad enough he will be singing, please spare us from a fate like this and help to build another great year for Marketeers CC by clicking on the paypal link and donating whatever you can.

Remember, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, the grand total is currently £1.00 so please get donating”

Well we had an act for the males with Bet's People, now it was time for an act for the females, yes it's Marketeers up
next!!
MARKETEERS CC - 'Chippendales and Bunny Girls'.
Malcolm introduced Marketeers to the town hall crowd by saying that the club had said that if they applaud loud
enough at the end there will be a special treat. Following last year's 'Babies' the Marketeers lads almost looked
overdressed this year - at least to begin with, the words wardrobe malfunction come to mind. Following a big build up
from Chris and Malcolm, the Chippendales section took to the stage first and were then followed by the Bunny Girls,
who under the make up I suspect were the older members of the club. This was as we all expected, highly hilarious
knock about fun, the Marketeers lads letting themselves go completely as they hammed it up and in doing so provided
non-stop laughs for the audience. 'Strip' songs for Marketeers included, 'Who Let The Dogs Out', 'It's Raining Men',
'Girls, Girls, Girls', 'Hey Big Suspender' (a song which I think in Carnival terms will always be associated with
Newmarket CC), 'Bread And Butter' (which was a Top 20 hit in 1964 for American vocal group, The Newbeats), 'Hot
Stuff from The Full Monty and to which got the audience clapping and 'Sex Bomb'. To be serious I think one or two in
the audience were a bit shocked, but that did not prevent Marketeers having the biggest round of applause of the
night, an set that was certainly up to the previous standard delivered by this club for this event. Interesting on the last
night to see how many females crowded into the wings to watch this particular act, the wings being empty as soon as
Marketers left the town hall!!

Updated Marketeers Multimedia Page added links to Old Folks & Marketeers Pontoon Dinner

AGM – The Annual General meeting of The Marketeers Carnival Club is taking place Monday 19th January at The Mansion House 7.30pm Start. Please make the effort to attend, apologies to Windsor or Paul Brazewell.
Cabaret Showtime – The next Cabaret is Sat 14th Feb.; as with the Xmas cab we will be looking for extra help from all aspects of the club on the night of the Cabaret. This is vitally important as the last cabaret was such a success due to the help and support we received from all aspects of the club. Please please make a note of the date in your diaries and come down to lend us a hand.
Pontoon Dinner - The date for the annual Pontoon dinner has been set – Saturday 14th March 2009. Letter and forms are attached to this newsletter. Once again it is being held in Bar 27 and all trophies from out successful year will be on display.
Club Photo – we as a club have decided it would be a nice moment to have a group photo with all the trophies we won during the last year, dates are still being discussed, but it is though will probably be the day after the pontoon dinner. More details will follow.