The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

1: Some of my socialist friends have a bad habit of confusing "is" with "ought". Because the Church of England oug...

In case anyone is still awake, this is a playlist of some of the songs I mentioned in my folk diary. And this is a video of a man singin...

  You've been a Batman fan since you were a little kid; and a jobbing comic-book hack since you left college; and it has finally happe...

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 ...

Some people are organised. Even in a tent. They bought their eco friendly reusable cup on the first day, and have carried it with them for t...

So. A knight rapes a poor maiden and sensibly tells her his real name so she can name the child after him. So she tells the king and the kin...

There are no cash points in Sidmouth! At any rate none of the cash points are giving out money, and none of the shops are doing cash back...

NOTE:=You are almost certainly not the first person to have spotted that the word “folk” sounds a bit like the word “fuck”. You all probab...

Oh the English, the English sunbathing and playing cricket on a pebbly shingly beach taking surfboards out into a calm sparkling blue sea th...

Sidmouth, please. Single or return? Single. £7.10, unless you would like a daily rover. No, I’m just going to Sidmouth It’s just that ...

I have just written 5,000 words about the Bible without once mentioning Star Wars. So this is me, mentioning Star Wars. About half way thr...