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The Babblings meetings grew out of groups from the uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5 Usenet newsgroup meeting up for booze-ups in London and elsewhere in the UK. However, since then Babblings has gone on to organise meetings of 100-150 at a time with star guests such as Jason Carter and JMS (with the help of Wolf and the UK Fan Club), and Wayne Alexander (with the help of Ali Hopkins).

In fact, the newsgroup became such a social whirl that a new social newsgroup was been formed. The pub booze-ups continue, of course.. A further potted history can be found at the Central Babblings site.

Thanks should go primarily to Paul Harper and Sarah Baker for their original hard work in organising the bigger events especially. Also of note is the hard work of Robbie Irvine, Stephen Beckwith and Gareth Kingston. More recently, many central Babblings events were organised by a collection of 9 of us. However, these days we simply meet from time to time in The Paviours Arms in Pimlico, London for a chat and a drink.

In addition to London, events (not necessarily Babblings ones) are held frequently but irregularly in other parts of the country - for instance, Leeds, Oxford, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bath, and Southend...

For more, it's best to ask around on the social newsgroup, or in the Interweb links in Gold Channel.

Although Babblings is not a conventionally defined organisation, it has run to some merchandise - contact Sarah Baker for a current list of items.

Current index

Future Events The next events are currently 'in the works' as the organising group changes over, but you'll still find Friday evening point meetings happening at Paviours if you check the social newsgroup.

Past Events Babblings 222 Photos Babblings 179 Photos More Babblings 179 Photos! Results of Babblings 179 Video Showing Poll Babblings 2.96-2.99 Photos Babblings 3 Report Babblings 3 Photos More Babblings 3 Photos! Even more Babblings 3 Photos!! Babblings 4 Report Babblings 4 Photos Babblings 4.02: 26th January 1996 Babblings 5 Report Pictures from Babblings 5 & 5.01 The Southend of Babblings: Friday 23rd February, Southend Return to Southend: Friday 12th April Babblings 6: Sunday 14th April Drazi War II: 11th May Babblings 6.99 - after Drazi War 2: 11th May Babblings 7 - Sunday 12th May The first Southern Babblings: Saturday 25th May 1996 Babblings 7.9: Friday 31st May, Paviours OxyBabblings: 6th June 1996 Babblings 8: at Wolf 359: 7-10 June 1996 Wolf 359 Report & Photos umtsb5.social at Wolf Report & Photos Babblings 9 and 10: 22 and 23 June 1996 Babcom '96 pictures, 22/23 June 1996 Kingston Babblings: 6:30pm Saturday 6th July Fourth South-West Babblings: Friday 19th July Babblings 11: Sunday 21st July Drazi War III: Saturday 17th August Babblings 322: Sunday 22nd September Leeds Gurglings: Sunday 22nd September Babblings 12.02: Friday 1st November, Paviours Surbiton Babblings: Friday 16th November Babblings 12.04: 29th November, Paviours, London Drazi War IV: 15th December 1996 Babblings 13: "Not the Xmas Babblings": 15th December 1996 Babblings 13.01, "The One that Shouldn't..": Monday 23rd December Babblings 13.02: Friday 27th December Manchester Drazi War & Social: Sunday 9th February Photos from Babblings 14 - "The Babblings of Lurve".. : 16th February 1997 Manchester Babblings and Drazi War II: 19th April 1997 Drazi War V: 27th April 1997 (Updated 22 April) Babblings 15: 27th April 1997, Page's Bar Babblings 15.02: 16th May, Paviours Arms Babblings 16: July 1997, Page's Bar and Wolf 359: The Alliance, Blackpool Babblings 17 - An Audience with Wayne Alexander: December 1997, Page's Bar Babblings 522: Saturday 9th January 1999, Page's Bar, Westminster Stuart Raper's pictures of Babblings 522 Babblings 523: Sunday 7th February 1999, Page's Bar, Westminster Babblings Reunion: Sunday 20th August 2001- Page's Bar, Westminster

Venues Where are Babblings events held? Events take place around the country (eg Leeds, Oxford, Bath, Southend, London, Portsmouth). Click here for details of venues (currently in London and Southend only - more to follow!).

Babblings Organisation Web Page Logos Babblings Central

Please also check out the

Support Babylon5 Page

on the official B5 server. The show has made it through to its final fifth season, thanks to the auspices of TNT in the US who provided extra funding. Warners will be revamping the Support B5 site to reflect this. In the meantime, there's still the spin-off series, "The Babylon Project: Crusade", to support! At present, the Support page is US-based: Channel 4's details for UK viewers can be found here.

Further Information

The Babblings organisers (whoever they may be! ;-) ) can be contacted at:

events@babblings.demon.co.uk
(NB: new e-mail id!)

Other B5 resources at this site:
Gold Channel || umtsb5 FAQ Pages

This page is maintained by Jeremy Morley from postings to the uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5 newsgroup by the Babblings organisers, and does not represent UCL policy or views.

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