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Festival of the Peak, Derbyshire UK
| Paul Burke | 12 Jun 06 - 04:45 AM | |
| muppitz | 12 Jun 06 - 08:16 AM | |
| John J | 12 Jun 06 - 12:37 PM | |
| danensis | 12 Jun 06 - 04:23 PM | |
| webfolk | 12 Jun 06 - 04:33 PM | |
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Festival of the Peak, Derbyshire UK
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Subject: Festival of the Peak, Derbyshire UK From: Paul Burke Date: 12 Jun 06 - 04:45 AM 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. |
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Subject: RE: Festival of the Peak, Derbyshire UK From: muppitz Date: 12 Jun 06 - 08:16 AM Shame you didn't stay til the Sunday, John Tams & Barry Coope were fantastic! I was also a little disillusioned with the lack of sessions and impromptu events, I'd taken my guitar but only got it out once in the Moor & Coast food tent (Who if you weren't on the right campsite, you wouldn't have known they were there!) and I was the only person in there with an instrument in my hand. But it's still in it's infancy, I'm sure it will develop. muppitz x |
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Subject: RE: Festival of the Peak, Derbyshire UK From: John J Date: 12 Jun 06 - 12:37 PM Could you post more information please, this sounds like an event not to miss next time around. Thanks, John (near Manchester) |
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Subject: RE: Festival of the Peak, Derbyshire UK From: danensis Date: 12 Jun 06 - 04:23 PM Tim won tickets from Folkwaves for the Friday night, and we enjoyed the Ceilidh band (Derbyshire Volunteers), even more so when they said their performance fee would be given to Macmillan Cancer Relief. The sound on the Bushbury Mountain Daredevlis was a little disappointing - they said they were trying a new technique with one "very sensitive" microphone, which meant that they did the sound mix by moving closer or further away. It did pick up the noise of the generators outside though, but little of the spoken word on stage. Must be a first for me wishing that the sound at a folk festival was a bit louder - especially when the people next to me who had yattered all the way through the act started demonstarting their mobile phone ring tones to each other in the final number. |
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Subject: RE: Festival of the Peak, Derbyshire UK From: webfolk Date: 12 Jun 06 - 04:33 PM We know who they are! Perhaps we should ask for their number at ring at some inconvenient time. I too heard bad reviews of the Bushburys, but my biggest dissapointment was coming over for just the Saturday afternoon (and maybe evening) and finding the site compound was not dog friendly on a baking hot day, so I could not leave my dog in the van all day in that heat and neither could I justify a £20 adult ticket (+ more for the children) for the Sat afternoon concert only. I also felt for the traders who were all situated inside the compound and whom I felt must have lost a significant amount of trade to passing folks. I sat outside the compound, listened to the turns from beyond the canvas, and chatted with Les Barker. A little bit of thought but as pointed out above, early days. Good to see Jules and Muppitz though!!!! Geoff Rodgers - singer songwriter |
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