Away with the Faeries ...sheep shite and spots

No not some weird and wonderful 80s band names but my weekend at the 3 wishes Faery Fest 2009. What a great time it was too loads of alcohol a flowing but no yobbery no bad behaviour ...we only came accross nice polite people and kids .......and twanging my bass strings and hearing the reverberation aound the festival area was fantastic!!!!!!!hope we get invited back next year I really do .


Drumming at dawn on summer solstice morning at a Wood Henge beside the lake was a real cool experience too ...there was a lone piper dressed as the Holly king and then as the Oak King upon the rise of the Solstice sun ...he was cool........unfortunately this was where I was surrounded by gnats as I drummed the djembe ...Wifey with hers . Went back to sleep in the morning sun and woke up with a face looking like a domino's pizza........had to do the performance with spots.........It was so bad that at the services on the way back from Cornwall I was given a huge wide berth in a queue......

The Dark Marge was a great help roadying for us and I caught him admiring pixie and faery outfits of the younger adult faeries with extreme interest....of course marvelling at the colourful outfits some were almost wearing.........

Spriggan Mist made their debut at the Fest just after six on solstice day evening playing for an hour and a quarter we did well . I muffed up Lazy Stones but apart from that all ok . There was between a hundred and hundred and fifty people scattered around the hill having drinks in the sun ,,,it was a lovely scene and when we played "The Park "to see them all with hands in the air at the chanty bit was a special moment too......

Unfortunately some halfwit oaf set up the video of the performance right by the main speakers so it's virtually unusable cos of distortion .........ok ok twas me.........

So next is the 5th gig .........The school fete....4th July ...........can't wait I have the gigging bug bad ........look out for photies on these pages very shortly.

Number one super guy.....Quicker than a human eye!!

Two stone ...it's official I have lost two stone since Easter Monday .......and when I have just had a morning doo doo it's two stone two pounds but that I suspect is far too much information.

Well the Maltese word for rain is indeed xita (pronounced Shit-a) and that about summed up the weather this weekend really....as we lazed around as a family ensuring that our children watch educational things on the telly like .......the whole series of Hong Kong Phooey (did you know they only actually made 16 episodes????).......I mean he was a 70s Martial arts icon ..............shame he hung himself really .....or was that David Carradine?..........none the less Hong Kong Phooey used to jump into a filing cabinet to get changed ...maybe David Carradine jumped into a wardrobe to do the same and got it wrong trying to emulate the real top dog in 70s chop sockys!!!!!!..........could be?

Before you all call us lazy bar stewards I'll explain why we were chilled as penguins! we have full diaries the next few weekends.

Next week is Rockstar's birthday ...he is 8.........and we are taking him and his partner in crime from many school playground tales of cheekiness and general Tom Foolery to Diggerland in Kent. The next day we are gigging at Phasels Wood in Kings Langley where Rockstar makes his debut with the new line up of Spriggan Mist on " The Park and Orion II"

We have been practicing and may even include a small set of Reels .....my !!!!!how times have changed ........there is me playing the old root and fifths to trad. folk stuff....and loving it.....
I have checked my self ...I don't smell of wet dogs and mothballs ....... yet so I'm not a real folky. Although the clothes I'm wearing on stage will probably get more outrageous as we progress on our musical journey.

Which leads me onto a little pet project of mine.......my aim is to get the Incredible Gurning Gizmo kid in to Spriggan Mist role.......Without doubt he is an integral part of the new Spriggan Mist sound in performance, arrangement and writing........but we need to get him kitted out .....I'm thinking medievel tunics and Harem trousers and sandals ...without the socks ........I'm thinking maybe leather viking belt .......I'm going to send him some links tonight ....I might even run an on line poll.............What do you think the Gizmo kid will look best in sort of jobby.. we have to look good for the Faery fest......with a name like Spriggan Mist ...we have to look medievel or funky medievel .............

Together with The Dark Marge Wifey and I will be shooting up to Birmingham to watch the long awaited Jeff Wayne' s War of the Worlds on stage ...we are taking Rockstar ...but he doesn't know it yet so shhhhhhh!
We arrive back early hours of Saturday morning then set off to Bodmin for the 3 wishes Faery Fest where I think we are playing Saturday and Sunday..........

I can't speak for the rest of our intrepid band of Musicians but I for one am looking forward to Faery Fest. I know we will rise to the occasion we have worked hard and I am going to enjoy every moment of it. As festivals go it is fairly low key although by evening time the Dolmen are playing and they are probably the best festival get up on your feet and dance folk rock type band about and sharing the same stage as these guys will be fantastic.........ok we will have been on a few hours earlier but you get me jist.

Of course it is the summer solstice .....The Oak King triumphs over the Holly King............really looking forward to the whole experience. oh and it's Father's day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then the weekend after we off down to Weymouth to visit Wifley's Bro and family ...u know Lil miss Chavster and co!!...then it's all the way to the last gig of the 6 gig run ...the School fete......


So there is loads to look forward to ...I will post piccies and diary bits from all events coz I know you lot will be interested..........oh you're not .....well I 'll post it anyway............