Cropredy - Quo Vadis?

Last weekend, various pals of mine were at some fab festivals that I would dearly liked to have joined them for. Now, thanks to the wonders of modern technology I can get some idea what it was like and get a close look at the back of the head of members of the audience!

Jon and Jan enjoyed the rustic pleasures of Cropredy and saw a blistering 3 hours set by the Fairports.

Here's Dave Swarbrick dropping in unexpectedly to join them for Sir Patrick Spens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6UM8F78_yE

The Cropredy line up was full of wonderful folk acts. I'm told that Welsh singer song-writer Martyn Joseph was marvelous and I'd have loved to see Bellowhead again. I was a bit surprised though to see Pauline Black and the Selector, Rick Wakeman and Status Quo on the bill.

I mentioned this to Nisse who argued rather convincingly that the Quo and Steeleye Span sound remarkably similar. These music journalists notice things that escape us ordinary moshers.

Meanwhile in Helsinki, those bad boys of Brighton, Steve and Pete, aided and augmented by Juha and Wolfgang, were enjoying the Flow Festival which also had a marvelous line up.

Wolfgang raved about Owen Pallett so here he is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXxHQJVq1ws

I should point out that when Wolfgang is enthusiastic about something he doesn't do things by half measures. If he tells me a gig was very good I know it was probably rather so so.

Long live enthusiastic pals!