Sep 13 2008
which festival?
According to the Gaurdian summer music festivals are popular events but there are too many festivals chasing too few ’star’ acts. The Observer lists ‘Boutique festivals’ as small-is-beautiful with reportedly shorter queues, higher quality food, and more child-friendly facilities than large such as Reading, Glastonbury and t in the park.
On the August Bank Holiday weekend over 80,000 people visited the town of Reading town for the festival. I snuck out on the train heading west for the smaller Bristol Jazz festival. Wandering towards the train station I passed many Reading festival attendees in the de rigeur style that involved:
- denim shorts.
- personaised wellies.
- a British variation on the grunge theme.
- NO suntan
- sunglasses cunningly repurposed as hair-bands.
- bum bags (US = fanny-packs)
which festival?
Kate Moss has a lot to answer for . . .
Sx
Most years I go to the Fairport Cropherdy Folk Festival. it’s a great experaince and a wonderfull opportunity to chill - or as I put it to a steward last year.
I’m as happy a s a pig in S**t’. No Phone, e mails only music, like minded people
and 6x.
Is that the Fairport Convention related festival, SK?