What was claimed the world's biggest Star Wars convention proved to be the most tedious and unorganised convention I have ever been to... I was even sceptical about its size as there were no film props or storyboards to see only stalls selling overpriced memorabilia or dodgy bootleg copies of the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
The convention was highly disorganised, there were no programmes of events distributed to people so everyone hung around from 9am to 6pm unsure of what was going on, waiting for random announcements. In addition no one was allowed to exit the venue and re-enter within the 9 hour convention due to paranoid security, meaning if anyone did they would have tp pay £10 entrance again!

The convention began with everyone making their way into an auditorium, nice auditorium it was too with balconies and a large stage like most theatres. We were to be treated to three musical acts that were 'Star Wars based' and oh boy, couldn't that be further from the truth! The first act started off OK, some bloke(who obviously had too much time on his hands and must have been a comic book store owner or something) with his digital sound equipment, synthesisers and the lot played us a techno version of the classic Star Wars theme tune (and threw in the odd speech and dialogue from the film much like that Choose Life trainspotting song in the charts at the moment) after playing the Star wars theme for 6 mins things got a little carried away, all of the sudden the techno moved away from Star Wars themes to something derived from scratch.. the occasional yawn and glance elsewhere indicated that the audience(like myself) began to be bored senseless, the act seemed to go on forever(about 15 mins or more, honest!) the guy wouldn't stop, this had nothing to do with Star Wars so we yearned for the next act. But oh boy were we in for a shocker, one does not expect early on a Sunday morning a grown man pouncing about on stage complete with semi-bondage wear wailing "Stttar waaaars, wonderful staaaar waaars" definately not an act for the many kiddies that were there, even I was shocked by it, it made many Star Wars fans cringe with embarrassment wondering what the hell drove them to the convention. After negative applauding calls of "get off stage you faggot" the third, most insignificant act came on stage who did a cover of a totally un-starwars related pop song. Thankfully, after that was the good stuff. The good selection of actors who attended the convention came to the stage.

By Jonathan Wildman