Ali, EAS means you can go in the day before LAN actually starts, so it's effectively an extra day of LAN for £15, but this way we can get it free

And Piers you booking is sounding like a pretty good way of doing this to be fair if you're gonna be around on Friday (others too) I'll happily just send you the money for it^^

Also Chalex to be fair working for Microsoft in the US will be pretty cool