Over this festival season, James and I had fine tuned our festival logistics, and one of the best investments that we had made was to purchase a 4-wheel gardening truck from eBay (Type
Guilfest is delightfully British affair. Aimed at kids and families, it is an odd sight to see smartly dressed middle aged taxpayers sitting on expensive fold up seats reading the Sunday Times, whilst the bands crack out lyrics where every other word starts with F, C, B or A (You go figure!)
Guilfest has more than the usual 3 stages, and, whilst this means that there are opportunities to see lots of bands, there is also a high chance of seeing complete dross as any band with a GU postcode seems to have a right to play there.
Whinge over, here are some of my highlights.
Friday was a lovely day, no rain and just the right temperature to watch one of the funniest acts this year. Tragedy, are an American band that do Bee Gee’s songs with an odd combination of 70's glitz and a very heavy metal style. The combination sounds awful, but was in fact so totally over-the-top that it really put a smile on my face - and, at least the guys could play!
Tragedy, being camp, loud, and over the top all at once
Just before Tragedy , Ginger did a good job with his particular mix of Punk and Rock
Ginger (ex- Wildhearts and Quireboys) doing his bit
Lemmy and the boys did a stunning job in getting the crowd going. Even middle England managed to rattle their jewellery and stomp their Hunters in time
Lemmy doing “Ace of Spades”
Saturday was a bit more miserable with drizzle coming down most of the day, but that didn’t matter when my hero Joe Bonamassa got up and headlined on stage 2.
Joe doing Sloe Gin
Joe, as always was stunning! And even though by this time we were soaked to the skin, we really enjoyed him and his style of timeless blues given a new twist
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