Wow! What an amazing weekend!!!
I've just gotten home from one of the most bizarre, funny and amazing weekends ever!
The friday was just amazing! Thanks to Holly, Cate and John we were at the head of the queue and positioned ourselves right at the front of the stage. All of the bands were good especially Dave Ford (what was with the park bench?) and Kubb (what was with the boiler suit!) who I got to see at last! It was a bit of a shame that so many of the crowd were so desperate to see Donavan Frankereiter that they kept screaming his name (even while Kubb were still onstage!) but I suppose thats the price you pay for going to festivals...not everyone is going to appreciate the same acts!
Of course, James was the highlight and I was shocked (and admittedly so very happy) that James gave me a wink and a big grin in the middle of "Wisemen"! Made my night! I also managed to get a couple of big grins from Beardy only to be told by James later that it was Beardys 30th birthday! No wonder he was so happy! Of course we all sang our little hearts out and had a great time! We were even treated to an amazing sunset just before James came onstage! Absolutely fab! All of the new songs were played aswell as the cover of "Where is my Mind" (which all of us Bedlamites were singing twice as loud to show the rest of the crowd, and the band, that we were truly committed!) but the best song was probably "Goodbye My Lover" which had the whole of the crowd singing! The night was rounded off nicely with a perilous walk back to the campsite via the "Hill of Death" followed by a few beers (desperately needed after our 8 hours of sobreity!).
The saturday was rather bizarre to say the least! A few of us headed off for a game of Bowling only to find that the Bowling Alley had....wait for it....4 lanes!!! It was tiny! A very bizarre thing for us all to do but we had a great time, even posing for photos to show off our shoes and balls!!! We then met up with Emma and Leanne for a cream tea with proper cornish clotted cream (well, it had to be done!) in Newquay town.
As evening came around we all headed off for the festival again and I have to say that the saturday night was soooo much fun. By the time we got to the site we were all so wet that rain was dripping off our noses but we didn't seem to care! We just went with the flow and ended up having such a laugh. I think it was probably the fact that we all looked so bad that we didn't care what we looked like and ended up messing around even more. Pete was re-christened "Pirate Pete" as he fashioned a bandana out of a bin bag to keep his hair dry, and Rob went from "Washer Woman Dearsley" to "Sheik Rob" after a few experiments with any waterproof materials we could find. Flip flop war was declared after being given freebies from the Sloggi van and much fun and merriment was had by all! A highlight had to be watching people inhaling laughing gas from a balloon. To see their expressions go from a cynical "this is never going to work" face to being doubled over with laughter was so funny that we had no need to go and pay for the laughing gas ourselves! The funniest thing was seeing the same people an hour later still giggling telling their friends that they were "screwed!". Again, the walk home was rather interesting, this time due to our slightly inebriated states! Back at the tents we chilled with the remainder of our beers and played "How many times will Rob let us chuck Jelly Babies at him until he realises we aren't actually aiming for his mouth!". Rob and I later decided to go for a walk to ease our hyperness only to find ourselves on the beach a mile back down from the campsite until almost 4 in the morning!!! So much fun!
In summary, great company + great music + great weather (mostly) = one totally enjoyable weekend!
