Boomtown 2012 – full photo report
This was such a fantastic festival – the best I’ve been to for a long time. I’ve now posted up a large photo review, which I hope at least gives a flavour …
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Boomtown Fair 2012 – my new favourite festival
Just got back from a fabulous weekend at Boomtown Festival, near Winchester.
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Brixton celebrates Jamaican Independence Day with a big Splash
Yesterday, Brixton rocked to a huge Splash party, with Coldharbour Lane, Windrush Square and Atlantic Road packed with people enjoying the sunshine.
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Thames Festival 2011 – umbrellas and brass bands
Unfortunately, I timed my visit to this year’s Thames Festival just as the skies opened, so I ended with loads of photos of umbrellas and damp people. Scroll down for some pics:
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Pic of the day: Carter USM at Beautiful Days festival
I’m still a bit too frazzled to sort out the pics from last weekend’s fantastic Beautiful Days festival, but here’s one of my fave pics, showing Carter USM near the …
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Precarious caravans and curious tents, Endorse It Festival 2011
Here’s a short selection of unusual caravans and tents seen around the Endorse It Festival camping site. Above is a particularly precarious looking Conway trailer tent, with the ‘bedrooms’ supported on …
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Brixton Splash 2011 – some photos from the Lambeth street festival
With the media concentrating on the unrelated trouble that happened in Brixton after Splash had finished, it’s worth reminding people that a hugely successful event went on during the day, …
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Yellow hat, bumblebee and the Super Furry Animals at Glastonbury
I thought I’d share this photo with you from the rainy, sludgy mudfest that was Glastonbury 2007. With the sun briefly coming out during the Super Furry Animals set, I noticed a little …
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Endorse It Festival 2009 delivers!
Just got back from a fantastic weekend at the Endorse It Festival. In Dorset. See what they did there? Dreadful puns aside, the festival was an absolute treat. The weather …
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My Big Chill 2005
My Big Chill 2005 With forty minutes between connections at Great Malvern from our London train to Ledbury, we decided to take a spin on our new folding bikes around …
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As usual, managed to miss a huge swathe of acts I’d eagerly marked down as ‘must sees’. Instead, enjoyed a rambling ‘see what we find’ stroll around the site. Came …
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Friday: Mud, rivers and sunshine When I left my tent on Friday morning, little did I know I’d be walking out into faithful representation of The Somme. By Lost Vagueness, …
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Glastonbury; weds-thurs After a daunting start at Paddington – with my ‘booked’ train declared full and much platform swapping called for – I eventually got a fast train to Swindon …
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Glasto Day Five (Sun) With the toilets overflowing and supplies of babywipes running perilously low, things are starting to get very messy indeed. Yesterday’s downpour ensured that most of the …
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Glasto Report Day 4 (Sat) Q Magazine’s one-word weather report accurately summed up the conditions: medieval It pissed down. All day. Footpaths that had only just dried out from the …
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