I’ve been playing with a tool called Snapseed to get this ‘look’. I quite like it. I’ts given the whole thing a bit of a dreamlike quality. It all does feel like a bit of a dream now though. *haahhh* Thanks to Rob B for nicking my camera for a bit and handing it back with a few doozie photos… Read more →
What a splendid festival that was. I’ll get the hick-ups out the way first up – the main one being the lack of main stage drum kit early doors, having a knock on effect (combined with a couple of other factors*), resulting in the Friday headline act – Croak Ditch – couldn’t play. Gutted about that, but that aside, a… Read more →
Since it’s kick off meetings last October, the 1st of June date seemed exotic, exciting and way, way off. Now, it’s just a week away. It’s starting to feel very real all of a sudden. Someone asked me yesterday “what bit am I most looking forward to?”. I answered with a number of things, but having reflected upon this, I… Read more →
Limetree this year ticked pretty much all the boxes and then some. Textbook festival fun. Having had a few pre festival jitters enhanced by last minute unknowns – within minutes of arriving, I’d discovered that some good friends had saved us an awesome plot for our van. I then discovered that I had a full compliment of fresh tickets and… Read more →
Just before any big adventure, I get jittery. Especially when it’s a last minute thing. On Wednesday evening an email from www.notitlemagazine.com casually informed me that I’d won a pair of tickets for Limetree Festival, via a ‘in 30 words or less’ competition. I did my excited face. Eirene, is convinced that the more I flap, procrastinate or object to the up-and-coming… Read more →
I’ve been to a vast array of festivals from the biggest to the smallest and met pretty much all walks of festival life. My first festival was Reading ’94 and from then, I’ve probably done at least one festival per year – ranging from ones I’ve played hard at, ones I’ve worked hard at and ones I’ve chilled soft at…. Read more →
Artists at Deershed festival (short), originally uploaded by DragonDrop. Click here for the longer, bigger version>> Had a fantastic weekend at Deershed. A very slick production indeed – Loads going on and they really did cater for the family. Stacks of quality entertainment for us, for the kids for everyone. Sold Out – I think about 1600 or so –… Read more →
Harrogate Fringe Festival ‘Grand Finale’. We’ve been asked to chuck another log on it for the official after party to the Harrogate Fringe Festival. There’s the ‘Crawl’ day on the 31st featuring shed loads of bands across umpteen venues in Harrogate and we’ll be wrapping up the show with double dose of party at Rehab, downtown Harrogate. “It’s gonna be… Read more →
I was lucky enough to do a lot of my favourite activities over the past 5 days or so. Thursday – went to watch the cricket at Headingley with a lovely bunch of people. ‘My’ team (Yorkshire) won one of it’s key matches of the season – they beat arch rivals Lancashire by 17 runs in a confident win. A… Read more →
Last week we attended the launch of the Harrogate Fringe Festival. After a general intro from the Harrogate Internation Festival (proper) Director, Graham Chalmers of Gig Scene was introduced. He gushed the passion, like only he can, about how good this thing could really be. There’s so much creativity in this town and so much creative appreciation of off mainstream… Read more →
How excited does Jay look?, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. There’s a set of photos I took at last weekend DragonGate festival on my flickr page now. For those who know him – check out the expression on Jay’s face on this pic above. Made me giggle when I saw it.
Dragongate festival was officially very much fun indeed. After hearing nightmare stories from the crew on site about main stages blowing down, roads in resembling a war zone and a catalogue of other worries, I was, well, worried. Turned up on site around 16:30 and was hit by a wall of positivity. Wasn’t expecting that and I think that’s the… Read more →
Interesting weekend. Road tested Clover (A campervan) to make sure she was ship shape for an up-coming longer away mission. She’s fine. Invented a new rain / shelter system using a huge chunk of tarpaulin that we’ve got. Shanty Camping. We were over in Markington near Ripon for a ‘festival’. Quite fun. Ace campsite (just behind the Yorkshire Hussar Inn,… Read more →
Plump DJs, originally uploaded by DragonDrop. Chucked up a bunch of photos to flickr from my visit to Glade Festival at the weekend. Here’s a stage view shot of (what I considered to be) the best set of the weekend – Plump DJ’s. To visit my Glade Festival 2009 set, click here >>
Went to the Lindley Woodstock Festival at the weekend – Technically a private party but had the feel of a early bloom festival. We all had a cracking time. I ended up engineering / stage managing the acoustic / ‘Lindley Top’ / Stage #2 for the day on Saturday – stepped into fill the gap of someone not turning up…. Read more →
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