I spent a (gloriously sunny) day at this event last Saturday. Some wonderful music- Liza Carthy, Eric Bogle, and a great Canadian trio of harmony singers called Finest Kind. Good beer, from a brewery (Thornbridge) I'd never heard of before, even though it's only 10 miles up the road from home. And nearly choking over Les Barker after several pints of that.

Wonderful- but the most passive festival I've ever been to. Not a single session, nobody got out a melodeon or even a tin whistle in the beer tent or on the grass, no little knots of people just getting together to sing a few songs, just respectable and respectful people sitting in neat rows and clapping politely on cue.


Weird.