Two weekends. Two festivals. Too difficult coming back to reality...
There's something strangely liberating about living in a tent. For a few days at least. Everything you own (or everything you seem to own...that 'other' world of a house full of 'stuff' just doesn't seem real) can be packed up and carried around with (relative) ease and you spend your days just wandering around indulging the senses in everything the great festival infused outdoors has to offer. Inevitably I come back harbouring some weird idea about buying a 1963 double decker bus and living off the land but pretty soon end up back in Co-op queuing to buy houmus and pitta bread and lounging on the sofa watching Snog. Marry. Avoid. Oh well.
Anyway Wilderness 2011 was/is a delightful addition to the festival season for so many reasons. A full review (as ever) will follow, but in the meantime here's a pretty picture of Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue. Ain't he the cutest?!
Does he still say "Thank you all for a beautiful evening" after the set, or has this new-found beardiness caused him to adopt more rugged ways?
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it I think he did. Bless. Still distinctly unrugged though, even with the beard...makes him look like a cute little pixie.
ReplyDeleteI am happy to hear that. When I saw them at The Academy a few (well, six) years ago, he said farewell to us with that phrase before the guitarist stepped up to the mic and mumbled a more standard bloke-in-a-band-style “Thank you, thanks for coming out, see you next time”.
ReplyDeleteI liked the contrast.
That two weekends past with a lot of good memories, the festival is great and very entertaining. That is really a great memory to keep on.
ReplyDeleteI really like CW Stoneking, I've seen him a couple of times and even though it's genre it doesn't seem pastiche.
ReplyDeleteHi Matthew, yep, you're right, it's all done with such conviction it seems really authentic. I'm convinced someone froze him back in the '30s then defrosted him a couple of years back.
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