Went to the Green Festival in Leazes Park at the weekend. The weather
was great — cloudy on day two, but still nice and warm.
I like the Green Festival. It’s easy to be cynical — 100s of Geordies
saving the environment by swilling beer out of plastic glasses. But
it’s got a great feeling to it, relaxed and comfortable. And this
year, the music was better than last year.
Amusingly, at one point a drunk guy decided to go swimming in the
boating lake. Got an enormous crowd. Slightly depressing for the
musicians; you spend years learning to play, getting songs and
rehearsing and then get upstaged by someone drinking too much beer and
cavorting in algae ridden lake.
Originally published on my old blog site.