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>...........House of Fairy Tales - August Bank Holiday 08........................................................

We are more than a little chuffed to be appearing at this (their first) family event at Sudeley Castle. Some of you may be
aware of this tent at the Port Eliot Litfest - Now for the First time House of Fairy tales is staging an event of their own. Check out:


House of Fairy tales
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>...........Art Car Boot Fair 08 - Sporeboys/Bettina von Zwehl....................................................

Sporeboys have been invited to participate in the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair this year. Taking place on 8th June @ the old Truman
Brewery off Brick lane. We will be situated in the Artist Food Market in collaboration with portrait artist Bettina von Zwehl.
She will be creating: 'Bettina's rare pilz polaroid portraits' where interested punters young and old can stick their head
(seaside stylie) through a selection of boards depicting wild and wonderous fungi. Bettina will then capture the happening for
posterity on a (rare) sheet of polariod film and sign the result.
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>...........12 Days of Christmas.....................................

Following the success of Covent Garden Night Market each thursday during august, Sporeboys have been invited
to '12 Days of Christmas'. Every day in the piazza 12th till 23rd December. Pop down for a bowl of warming mushroom risotto
and forrage for a sporegift or two. As well as hot food and fresh wild 'n exotic shrooms for sale we will have dried and jarred fungi
fancies to take home for the pantry stocking
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>...........07 Festivals confirmed.....................................

- Sporeboys are headbanging up to Donnington Park to DOWNLOAD Festival - 8-10th June (better paint our tent truffle black!).
- Ahhhhhh PORT ELIOT. We'll be down there again 20-22nd July.

- BESTIVAL! Sept 7-9th. We'll be currying spores in the Bollywood Field.

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>...........Taste Italia Magazine (June issue).....................................

Check out our finest porcini in the taste italia tasteoff! June issue - available on newsatands and in Waitrose, Sainsburys, Tescos
and all those types of sporebarron places.

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>...........The Los Angeles Times (April 07).....................................

Sporeboys headline this fantastic article on London's Food Market scene. Check it out on:
http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-london22apr22?page=1. I feel a Sporetrip to Venice beach coming on...
don't you just know our protein and potassium rich portabello and haloumi burgers
will make waves on muscle beach! Better unearth that thong!

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>...........The Telegraph (saturday 20/01/07).....................................

Rose Prince has included Sporeboys in her regular 'Shop Local ' column in the Telegraph. Check it out and hopefully see david
and ulrika bathed in milky december light flanked by risotto sandwiches a cookin. Hope Rose is complimentary!

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>...........Festival season 2007.....................................

Early indications would suggest that the Sporeboy junket will be appearing at Port Eliot Litfest and Bestival again this year.
Keep an eye here for news - possible others in the pipeline include Download, Womad, Wynchwood

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>...........Online Sporesales now available! 24/11/06.....................................

Dried Porcini and mixed Exotic dried packs available to buy online - more fantastic products coming soon including our
Sporeboy t-shirt and apron, mushroom knife, dried morels, truffle honey, truffle risotto...and more.... keep an eye - or contact
a sporeboy direct:
contact the sporeboys

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>...........Risotto madness at Bestival...........................................

We raised the bar at Bestival and prepared 1/4 tonne of spores for the hungry revellers - a few of us even managed to catch
an act or two.The spore apparel found fame when Fyfe Dangerfield (Guillemots) wore one of our tour t-shirts during their gig
on main stage (picture of Fyfe coming soon).



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>...........Sporeboys blowing in to Bestival - Isle of Wight - September 8th, 9th, 10th...........................................

Come on over to the Isle of Wight and eat mushroom recipies that will be freshly prepared in front of your eyes. Apparently
there are also some good music acts to chomp shrooms along to. We will be preparing chanterelle omelettes to order from 9am
every morning. That'll have settled your hangover just in time to tuck into our mixed mushroom risotto from 12noon onwards and
available into the wee small hours until sporechef can stir no more. Risotto will be accompanied in the sporetent by our resident
mushroom sandwich and special star guest - portabellini mushroom and haloumi burger! - get down!

Bestival website

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>...........Port Eliot Film and Literary Festival - exclusive tour pictures..........................................................................

Heres proof that the sporeboys n girls can play hard - see you all next year.

Port Eliot website
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>........... Hatfield House Food Festival - August 18th,19th,20th.......................................................................................

Sporeboys are especially drawn to the lawns of lords! - do your taste buds a favour and treat them to the latest sporefruits
of the season. We'll have wonderful Scottish chanterelles and the worlds finest porcini on stall along with organic cultivated
Japanese mushrooms and a few other surprises.

Hatfield House website

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>...........Sporeboys on tour at Port Eliot Film and Literary Festival - July 21st, 22nd, 23rd...........................................

With a vanload of the freshest mushrooms and some spore-sous-chefs at hand, the sporeboys will be donning their tour t-shirts
and setting about the task of feeding all the hungry minds at this fantastic festival. So whether you're a book publisher or a book
worm, a film director or a film buff - get down for the weekend and get up to the smell of spores a cookin. We'll be preparing our
famous mushroom sandwich to order - supported in the kitchen by our mushroom risotto and tara's tasty creamy cepe soup.

Port Eliot website

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>.......Sporeboys at the Marylebone Summer Fayre - Sunday 18th June...........................................................................

Take to the streets at the Marylebone Summer Fayre, with a farmers’ market, live music, activities for kids and more.
Marylebone
High Street will be thriving with a lively atmosphere, closed off to traffic for the occasion. Pedestrians can roam and browse
throughout the day, making the most of what the Marylebone Summer Fayre has to offer. London’s largest farmers’ market
will be taking place during the Marylebone Summer Fayre, bringing fresh produce to London from across the UK. Visitors can
pick up fruit and vegetables direct from the source at a popular annual market. A range of activities will be available for children
to enjoy including face painting and fairground rides. Families can enjoy a full day out at the Marylebone Summer Fayre, which
will also feature a programme of live music. Proceeds from the Fayre will be donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust. The event is
free to attend.

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