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…
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Limetree Festival 2011
King Lear at St. Dogmaels Abbey - biased reviewI say biased because my boys were in it. Having said that, if I'd gone as a pure 'punter' I would have loved it. This year marked the 25th Anniversary and the final night marked the 100th performance for The Abbey…
Deershed Festival 2011 ReviewI’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…
Bernie on the Lee Mack showI'll pad more info into this post shortly - all I really know for now is that on Tuesday, Bernie Cook (an inventor) took a DragonDrop adventure t-shirt to Pinewood Studios London to feature on the Lee Mack show. Not…
DragonDrop - as seen on TVApparently, A DragonDrop Adventure Shirt has already been on TV during a cricket match in India when it's wearer, Jim, was carried around the ground at shoulder height for being the only non Indian in the ground. Or so…
Spotify PlaylistsA screenshot of my Spotify - one of my favourite applications of all time. When someone asks me "what is Spotify ?" I answer "An application that gives you any song you want within one second." And whilst that's not…
World Book NightWorld Book Night , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . I've been selected to be 'a giver' on World Book Night, which is today. If you'd like a copy - I've got 48 to give away . As I'm solo-dad this weekend, I'm beached…
St Georges Channel PT1 – WalesWe've spent the last week or so doing a bit of chugging around in Clover (a van). We set out for Wales and aimed for this field in Poppit Sands a wonderful hidden gem of a spot we were introduced to last year - a back…
weeknightsfieldmusicweeknightsfieldmusic , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Went to see Field Music at the Harrogate Theatre last night. Such a polished act. Thousands of hours worth of practice boiled down into an hour or so.…
- Artists at Deershed festival (short)
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…
FIRE : Fringe Festival Closing PartyHarrogate 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…
Cricket, Lindley Woodstock and TinI 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…
- Big Beats are the best
For some reason, the last two FIRE parties have borne the above mantra. Having thought that the VOTE fire edition was incredible, I was secretly worried that this would not come close, but it did. Musically I kicked off…
5000th photo5000th photo , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . This is my 5000th photo on flickr. A fairly random selection but I quite like. "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." - Henri Cartier-Bresson. I'm half way to…
- The superbosity of VOTE FIRE
The superbosity of VOTE FIRE was champion-o-rama. It was busy from the outset – a few things were happening in town but not as much competition as there has been recently – before too long our spies were reporting that…