Friday 28 October 2011

Catch up time! - Bimble Inn Bandada, Boomtown Fair, Reading, Proms In The Park and OOTO!

It's that long awaited catch up and I guess I'm now expected to remember all of the things that happened 3 months ago.....Well lets have a go :)

Right I think I left you all at The Lonely Tree. Well clearly I came down from there and after the end of the Play Festival I rode the 200 miles home after what was three festies in a row!

Next up was the Bimble Inn Bandada and another beautiful installation from the Bimble crew and Pony. We had amazingly wonderful weather the whole weekend! It looked like this:
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See! Beautiful! :)

Next up was the one I'd been waiting for all year! The Boomtown Fair! This was just going to be so epic! So many friends all coming to the same festival and a line-up that screamed PARTY!!!!

More to come a bit later today......

I arrived a day and a half before it opened and had a nice day chilling out with friends :)

And then it opened da da daaaaa! So many great parties, I was in a show, we watched Gogol Bordello
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and managed to achieve best festival of the year!

Next up was Reading. Always an epic one as it's usually the last time a lot of us festival workers get to see each other till next June! I was lucky enough to be given the Jack Daniels Bar to run, which was nice ;) Reading 2011 turned out to be my best Reading to date! Really had a great time, wonderful entertaining staff and what really seamed to be a great crowd too!

Proms In The Park was up next and for me was a four day event that involved hard work but it was still much fun working with friends. I won't mention the amazing job I turned down at Bestival to stay in London for a paid event rather then voluteering.....Oh well who needs The Cure when we had Gary Barlow.... :(

Out Of The Ordinary was the way I chose to end my 2011 festival season. Festival number fourteen was lots of fun! I took my motorbike out for what was to be the last time and rode down with Rob on his Triumph, it was an excellent ride :D The festival was just what I needed :)

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Brif update and an attempt at a catch up

OK so I`ve about 20 minutes remaining at this internet cafe and this German keyboard is driving me nuts!! There is a massive gap in my posts that I didn`t manage to write up before I left the UK, I will get there at some point but I just wanted to let anyone that might still read this that I will get back on it in the next few weeks and am promissing some more crazy adventurous stories. OK so maybe not quite as bonkers as being put in bolivian prison, or spending 9 weeks living in the rain forest walking an adult male puma daily, or even suffering the experience that is a Bolivian hospital, or even taking a Harley Davidson up the West coast of America.....But Adventures are certainly out there to be found, and I certainly will find them :) So I thank any of you left for reading, I am currently in Switzerland. I`ve 2 weeks left then it`s off to discover Germany, cos no one has yet! I shall have to get a flag and claim it for my own :) OK I haven`t got a flag....Can you claim a country with a toy snail? I reckon there must be a way :)