It's that time of year when you start looking at the list of festivals and dream about sunny days listening to good music with a couple of beers inside you. I've not volunteered for the Workers Beer Company for a good few years, so that rules out the likes of Glastonbury (if it was going ahead) or Reading. Looks like I'll have to pay.
The middle weekend of July sees the TUC festival at Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. We've been for the past 3 years and it used to be a small gathering but has grown so that there were an estimated 10,000 trying to get into the village for the Sunday procession of the banners last year. You can download a photographic report (in pdf) of last year by clicking here. Don't look too closely at the couple hiding from the sun under the umbrella on page 3 between the photos of Billy Bragg, Tony Benn and Elanor McEvoy. Not our best ever picture and you can only see Sonia's sun hat and her shoulder but interesting company to keep.
But the last weekend of July is The Cambridge Folk Festival. I've seen the line up and Sonia is excited by the possibility of seeing Richard Thompson, Cerys Matthews, Eddi Reader, Seth Lakeman and Nizlopi (the JCB song people). I'm up for them plus Capercaillie, Chumbawamba, John Tams & Barry Coope and the general Cambridge experience. But it does require a dedicated morning on the phone when the tickets go on sale and could depend on how good I am with the autoredial.
So you can see my dilemma...where to spend a long weekend in July sitting in a field drinking beer and listening to music? Cambridge has an internet cafe so I could blog from there, whereas Tolpuddle is very rural - no shop in the village, just the pub and the Martyrs' Museum where the festival takes place. Decisions, decisions, decisions...
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