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Good Weekend Festival 22nd- 23rd July 2011 Woodmancott, Hampshire
http://gdwknd.co.uk/
Bit late with this but any later and it will be well out of sync with other fests..
Bit late with this but any later and it will be well out of sync with other fests..
With little in the way of previous reviews, the ‘line up’ is the best guide as to what a NEW festival will be like. Let’s face it, even in these hard pressed times at £40 a ticket even if it’s crap you can always come home.
The list read good & the weekend certainly lived up to its name. The question is how did they manage to pull it off. 350x£40= £14,000??? We recon it was a lot of good faith and hard work.
We drove down on the Friday Evening arriving about 9pm...unpacked.
Boll**ks.... i’m a part time Mountain Guide and i forgot the tent pegs, the problem was resolved with some pegs provided by the nice girl with Pink hair so no need to go all Ray Mears and whittle down a tree. Tent sort of pitched, it was time for a Pimm’s, we had difficulty working out the measures so i was about a 50/50 mix after a few we headed in.
The list read good & the weekend certainly lived up to its name. The question is how did they manage to pull it off. 350x£40= £14,000??? We recon it was a lot of good faith and hard work.
We drove down on the Friday Evening arriving about 9pm...unpacked.
Boll**ks.... i’m a part time Mountain Guide and i forgot the tent pegs, the problem was resolved with some pegs provided by the nice girl with Pink hair so no need to go all Ray Mears and whittle down a tree. Tent sort of pitched, it was time for a Pimm’s, we had difficulty working out the measures so i was about a 50/50 mix after a few we headed in.
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| Pippa Marias.. damm fine, but isn't it a type of potato |
Friday nights stunning highlights were Lighthouses, Fly Frankie Fly, Pippa Marias finishing off with Nedry ohh...sooo good man
Friday nights stunning highlights were Lighthouses, Fly Frankie Fly, Pippa Marias finishing off with Nedry ohh...sooo good man
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| Fly Frankie Fly |
A few bottles of Brothers Festival Cider later it was Saturday morning.........heads not so good.
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| Nedry...sooo good |
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| Set List |
Saturday started quiet with a few other folk looking even less than not so good, we fueled up with some tucker from a great little wood fired pizza stall. Our fave afternoon delights in no particular order were Flight Brigade, Appollos's Arrows, Arp Attack and Winterhours, then into the evening with Worship, Kurran and the Wolf Notes and the splendid Hot Club de Paris. We wobbled back to the tent after Art Brut.
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| Winterhours |
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| Hot Club de Paris |
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| Kurran and the Wolf Notes |
All in all the festival was a delightful surprise, though it would have been nice to see some real ale on offer. Might also have been an idea to remove the security barriers from the fronts of the stages, quite a few smaller and boutique festivals seem to manage without them, gives for a much more intimate gig, though I guess this may have been Health & Safety requirement.
I do hope they can put it on again next year. Thanks to the organisers, they put on a 'little gem'
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| Worship |
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| Art Brut |
Still another two festivals to go this year, a dry Greenman would be nice, followed by the always perfect End of the Road.
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