The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

I got a bus from the campsite to Sidmouth and then I got a bus from Sidmouth to Exeter and then I got a bus from Exeter to Bristol and then ...

So: having had the Perfect Last Night of the Festival on Thursday, naturally, on Friday I went to the Best Gig of the Festival. The Best Gig...

Well that was just about the perfect end of the festival. Someone has brought marshmallows to the Bulverton bonfire. There are some families...

 # MC signals to Rory McCloud that he has ten minutes left. Rory begins to chat about which song he will sing, which song he would have song...

  #not all geography teachers #Nothing particularly against hymns in general, or And Can It Be in particular. You can sing it at my funeral ...

If you tie a green ribbon around your hat you signify that your true love has gone away. If you wear a yellow handkerchief it means your are...

Show of Hands is no more. Long live Dream in Colour. Spelt British style: the last song involved singing “o o o” and “u u u”. And it abbrev...

Saturday “Well, if we like songs where you shout out rude words….” Sidney Carter was obviously the influential modern hymn writer, but he on...

Friday Breakfast at Lookout Cafe on sea front. I will definitely not eat a large cooked breakfast every day, I seem to recall promising my S...

 Items that I can cross of my Festival Bingo Card. 1: Ate a pasty.  2: Ate an ice cream (coffee flavored.) 3: Bought items I forgot to pack....

  A child climbs trees with his two best friends and wonders what they will do when they grow up. A boy plays football with his four best fr...

Morris dancing is a mostly English tradition of highly stylized folk dance. It is definitely old -- Shakespeare's Dauphin mockingly c...

A few more highlights....

A short walk along the promenade  esplanade.

Lindisfarne *  Ralph McTell * Kitty Macfarlane * Jeff Warner * Ragged Trousers * Alice Jones * Mary Humphreys & Anahata * Annie Winter ...

It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet said never before -- and he had been coming to Sidmouth for goodness knows how long... two y...

Lady spent entire concert writing postcards and letters. Full on address book, envelopes, stamps on her knee. I found this both distracting ...

Nine days is quite a long time to spend listening to folk music, sleeping in a tent, and living on coffee and beer. Seasoned festival goers ...