Moor Music Festival 2007

Now i've been looking forward to moor festival for months now with a great line-up made up of the best local acts around so i was hoping for a bit of sunshine but not even the constant drizzling could dampen the festival goers spirits.

the first tent we stumbled into was host to nu york state, a pretty fun souly, jamiroquai/maroon 5-esque (but better and less irritating) group with trumpet, sax, keyboard, african drums and the usual.



next up was rebel yell a cool as rockabilly group from leeds who put on a craking show despite being one member down



Next we saw Sky Larkin who were refreshingly lovely!


Shot at 2007-07-24

From here the line-up gets a bit blurry but somewhere along the way i finally got to see The Sugars who i've been trying to catch for a while now and i found their quirky stage presence and feet stompable sound highly entertaining


Shot with Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL at 2007-07-24

i do of course remember the last act of our evening the one and only Kid Id who played an awesome set that got the tent a rockin'



The next day saw The Tarka Groove Experiment getting everyone dancing their muddy little tootsies off.....



They were followed by the indie stylings of Bradfords White Light Parade.....



Then the highly vibrant electro sounds of The Hair who got the little tent rammed with heaving bodies



And finally the finale and musical highlight of the weekend was the one and only jon gomm and his amazing virtuoso guitar battering talents, i'm serious anyone who hasn't seen this guy and who gets the chance to has GOT to go watch he is literally the most mesmerising solo stage performer i've ever seen!



Other highlights of the weekend include the silent disco on the last night which was ridiculous amounts of fun (no camera to record the fun unfortunately!) Jumping around in the mud



singing copious amounts of bob dylan and making up songs about an elusive girl named elly



and these rather weird dancing foam creatures that mesmerised us for a few minutes!



Anyway this was the best festival of the summer so far i have high hopes for connect festival and i guess leeds will be a laugh cos it always is! This was a ridiculously long blog type thing but i took a lot of photos this weekend!!!

Emily

Another week another festival but this time the weather was a million times better, actual sunshine I kid you not! Had the privelege of access to an actual photography pit too. The Riverside festival wasn't anywhere near the hippy mud fest of Workhouse, it was more of a village fete gone large-scale but was really well organised and most people were pretty cool. Saw some really cool bands including Kid Id (ofcourse) but also an awesome local band called Point of Origin who got the acoustic tent shaking more than i'm certain it was designed to. Noteable events included returning to the car to find some chav had tagged the phrase 'Yes Boss' along the side of it but as it wasn't my car I found this pretty amusing. Lets hope the sun stays put for the rest of the summer and we can all frolic wildly in fields...... or sunbathe, whatever.

Workhouse Festival 2007

Workhouse Festival in *unpronouncable/memorable*, Wales was pretty awesome, only managed to go for the day and it was a sea of swampiness (see photos) but was a cool atmosphere and free food and cider is never a bad thing! took some more photos of Kid Id as they headlined the bar stage (see band photography). These small festivals are the way festivals should be, don't get me wrong leeds fest and the like are all well and good but lets face it they are a complete rip-off for both ticket prices and beer/food and everything is compromised by the sheer corporateness of it, smaller festivals have a much better atmosphere and fewer dickheads, but at the end of the day, i'll go to pretty much any festival i can afford, roll on moor fest, Leeds fest and connect fest!! Any suggestions of other cool festivals will be gladly accepted!!