A Small Festival
Well, I've been to two festivals this summer now - one with 120,000 people and one with about two or three hundred. It was a great weekend... I was unfortunately first to bed on Friday; I was absolutely beat. But that gave me the energy to be pretty much the last one up on Saturday night/Sunday morning. And the Saturday night was wicked...
The festival's basically a few fields, two of them camping (one 'quiet' and one 'noisy', which is a good idea), and another bit with a fire pit and marquee, and a barn which we spent saturday transforming into a club venue with various decorations, hangings and lights, etc. There were a few things going on, like an acoustic gig, a flamenco guitarist who was pretty good, some aboriginal storytelling, a capoeira demo... but it was mostly building up to the Saturday night, which was fat. Wandered and danced and discussed and generally had a great time; one of those nights you just lose yourself in completely. Some great people, great atmosphere, great music. Some highlights included:
Jumping up on stage to play along (not very well) to Another Man's Cause in the jamming session, and then doing a much better version in a mongolian yurt with a smaller audience. Dancing up a storm to Sasha's amazing 90s Rave set. Having a cool indie session down in the chill out room. Playing my first ever DJ set by trial and error, and filling the dancefloor to KLF. Having some great conversations with loads and loads of really cool people. Setting up the two rooms in the barn for the party, and everyone chipping in and treating it as a big project and making them cool. Our little group (Me, Sasha, Edwin, Ailsha & Joe) getting loved up and hugging lots.
Definitely want to go back next year and get more involved in helping out - all the proceeds go to Tribal Survival International to help indigenous people, and the kind of set up it is means anyone could come up with an idea and make it happen... like for instance, a fire display? Any monkeys like the sound of that?
I'm now going to fall onto my bed and slip into a coma. See you in a number of hours, world.
The festival's basically a few fields, two of them camping (one 'quiet' and one 'noisy', which is a good idea), and another bit with a fire pit and marquee, and a barn which we spent saturday transforming into a club venue with various decorations, hangings and lights, etc. There were a few things going on, like an acoustic gig, a flamenco guitarist who was pretty good, some aboriginal storytelling, a capoeira demo... but it was mostly building up to the Saturday night, which was fat. Wandered and danced and discussed and generally had a great time; one of those nights you just lose yourself in completely. Some great people, great atmosphere, great music. Some highlights included:
Jumping up on stage to play along (not very well) to Another Man's Cause in the jamming session, and then doing a much better version in a mongolian yurt with a smaller audience. Dancing up a storm to Sasha's amazing 90s Rave set. Having a cool indie session down in the chill out room. Playing my first ever DJ set by trial and error, and filling the dancefloor to KLF. Having some great conversations with loads and loads of really cool people. Setting up the two rooms in the barn for the party, and everyone chipping in and treating it as a big project and making them cool. Our little group (Me, Sasha, Edwin, Ailsha & Joe) getting loved up and hugging lots.
Definitely want to go back next year and get more involved in helping out - all the proceeds go to Tribal Survival International to help indigenous people, and the kind of set up it is means anyone could come up with an idea and make it happen... like for instance, a fire display? Any monkeys like the sound of that?
I'm now going to fall onto my bed and slip into a coma. See you in a number of hours, world.