| Sunny Sundae Smile |
[Aug. 14th, 2006|10:30 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | Recharging the batteries | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Camera Obscura: Let’s Get Out Of This Country | ] |
Ah, the Leicester Summer Sundae weekend. What a marvellous bundle of fun that was. I suppose you’ll be expecting some kind of a festival write-up then?
Well, lots of high points. And here were a few of them...
- My Argos tent standing proudly erect in a most waterproof way, despite the fact that it took me about three hours to put it up.
- Excellent social moments with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) weddingpresent, mellowdoubt, duchess80, lazyodelay and beattiedee. edit: Whoops, almost forgot, the excellent martinv as well!
- Somerfield wheat beer in cans.
- Cracking performances from Camera Obscura, Brakes and The Boy Least Likely To (to name but a few).
- No queue whatsoever for the luxury showers during the pouring rain at 7:30am on Sunday morning (funny that, eh?). A far cry from spending four days without washing at Glastonbury during the late 1980s.
- Some marvellous new bands discovered, such as Joan As Policewoman, Don’s Mobile Barbers and the monumental ¡Forward Russia!
- Seeing a Francis Bacon masterpiece hanging in Leicester Art Gallery.
- Nearly getting run over by Joan As Policewoman’s van speeding around the corner five minutes before they came onstage (where’s a policewoman when you need one, eh?).
- Weston’s Perry. Even nicer than Kopparberg.
- Finding a side door and an unguarded staircase to sneak in for The Proclaimers when the stewards were announcing “house full” at every apparent entrance to the hall, and the rain was bucketing down outside.
- Incredible camping luxury on my £9.99 airbed.
( And, of course, some bands... )
In case you hadn’t guessed, pictures will follow. I am pleased to anounce that this week will see the return of the Friday Photos at long last. The only big difference is that now they will be every fortnight rather than weekly, so that hopefully I won’t run out of pictures again within about a month or something.
In other news, it seems that the seminar I was a little nervous about giving a few weeks ago “Using Google as an advanced research tool” must have gone down rather well. They’ve asked me to repeat it in November. |
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