The Square Festival in Borth ended well. The gnome mascot went on walkabout on Saturday night and hilariously appeared in Cafe Seren for a dance at about 3AM, and on Sunday night some lads tried to do the same again but were prevented by security. This is the Gnomie Homey:
As I mentioned yesterday, highlights of Saturday were 65daysofstatic and Skindred. A few more pics from Saturday are below, followed by a brief review of Sunday.
This girl might look like I've caught her in the middle of something but no - she was totally asleep. How she'd managed it in that position next to a devastatingly loud Drum and Bass tent I don't know but dead to the world she was:
Just around the corner from sleepy girl was a graffiti wall that included this rather excellent work:
And in a tent on the other side of the field we saw this lot:
They were pretending to be a polka band from Communist Russia, and the woman singer (who also played a mean snare drum) did a pretty convincing Russian accent, but it turns out they were from Sheffield. Excellent, great fun band. Unfortunately I don’t know what they were called.
Dance music was well represented at the festival and on Saturday we heard some amazing funky techno in the Kaos tent:
The same tent was the location for some incredibly dark and deep Dubstep on Sunday night. The afore-mentioned very welcoming cafe Seren was a great place after the official music finished, and we heard some great reggae in there late:
Not surprisingly, we got up late on Sunday morning. By the time Helen had walked the dog and I’d cooked a monster breakfast, it was time to go see our friends Syspender play. They did a good set that suffered two complete power outages (which the crowd waited patiently through) and an initial lack of sound in Jono’s Harmonica. By the end lots of people were dancing which is good going for a festival Sunday afternoon just after lunch. Several pictures of them are below.
After that we trundled off to the main stage and saw the excellent and funny Gideon Conn with his strange mixture of hip hop, folk and ska, followed by the stunning “The Anomalies” doing their lively, dancey hip hop in fine style. Since I was starving by this point I headed home to make some dinner and Helen joined me with the intention of heading back to see The Beat. Whilst cooking I heard the song “Stand Down Margaret” and I thought “hang on, is that The Beat”? It was - they were on stage an hour early. Helen ran off and I went a few minutes later. They were really very good indeed and have lost none of their edge.
All in all a great festival, and I hope it goes on again next year, although there is apparently some doubt about that because of “resistance from local businesses”. A most excellent weekend.
Cheers, Tom.
rich8980
nice to have you back.
Looks like a fantastic weekend, I'm particularly taken in by the "monster breakfast" cooked on Sunday morning.
Great photos as usual, i especially like Gnomie, and the woman asleep on a thin bit of rope, it's fantastic!
Rich