{"id":13080,"date":"2013-08-13T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2013-08-13T22:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:53:42","slug":"the-prawnucopia-lounge-at-boomtown-2013-like-drugs-but-with-giant-prawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-prawnucopia-lounge-at-boomtown-2013-like-drugs-but-with-giant-prawns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prawnucopia Lounge at Boomtown 2013. Like drugs, but with giant prawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just got back from this year&#8217;s fabulous Boomtown festival with a head full of happy memories and a still-confused recollection of our visit to the Prawnucopia Lounge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located in Boomtown&#8217;s Chinatown district, there was a large and slow moving queue outside which piqued our interest.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I normally hate standing about in queues but the looks on the faces of the people coming out (a mix of sheer horror, confusion and tears of laughter), suggested that this was a thing worth seeing.\u00a0And it didn&#8217;t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some photos.\u00a0Don&#8217;t ask me to explain what was going on because I don&#8217;t think anyone knew &#8211; not even the people running the show.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our prawny host.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-5.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waiting for our prawn-based &#8216;treatments.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-6.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prawn egg manicure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prawn foot spa.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-7.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things got a bit stranger at this point.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-8.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-9.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-11.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-12.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple being smoothed by giant prawns.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Who needs drugs when you have Prawnucopia at Boomtown 2013 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-13.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A (possibly) satisfied customer leaves.<\/p>\n<p>I loved Prawnucopia. I still have no idea what the hell is what about mind, but it sure was a hoot!<\/p>\n<p>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/boomtown-2013-8th-11th-august.301493\/page-26\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown 2013 on the urban75 forums<\/a> (over 750 posts).<\/p>\n<p><em>Loads more Bomtown photos to come soon!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got back from this year&#8217;s fabulous Boomtown festival with a head full of happy memories and a still-confused recollection of our visit to the Prawnucopia Lounge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,54,17],"tags":[452,1198,661],"class_list":["post-13080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-festivals","category-photos","tag-boomtown","tag-festivals","tag-prawnucopia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/prawnucopia-boomtown-2013-101.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3oY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13104,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions\/13104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}