Well, last weekend was pretty awesome. Continuing in the fine tradition of playing before we’d usually even be awake, we opened the main stage at 2000 Trees near Cheltenham. We’re going to be honest, we weren’t expecting much. We’d arrived the night before in pitch black, torrential rain and high winds, struggled to put our tent up, then slept for perhaps two hours. Thankfully the people of 2000 trees are made of sterner stuff than us city boys, and there were loads of lovely (slightly damp and exhausted) folks up and about when we finally made it on stage.
We’re not a massively festival hardened band – we’ve tended to do two or three per year so far – but of those we’ve seen, it’s now our favourite (home-town festivals excluded). The audience and atmosphere was unrivalled (Kudos to the now legendary Dan who crowd surfed in a crocodile costume almost constantly on Friday), and the line-up was astonishing. I don’t think we’ve ever spent so long trying to get off stage whilst saying hello to so many old friends – which became something of a theme over the following 16 hours.
This Sunday we’re off to Off The Cuff in Birmingham, which has a similarly incredible line-up, which we’re looking forward to equally eagerly. Hopefully we’ll see a few more friendly faces but come home in slightly better shape than last weekend.
