End Of The Road Festival Dorset

Written by Oliver Gray | 08 October 2010

10 – 12 September


Having given up on Glastonbury after 25 years, as it had become too big and impersonal, I clasped End Of The Road to my bosom in its very first year and have remained faithful ever since. It’s hard to find anything negative at all to say about this event. Last year, a questionnaire came round asking if they should expand. My answer: Expand at your peril. You have got everything just right, so don’t start fiddling.

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Cambridge Festival 2010

Written by Jeremy Searle | 08 October 2010

Ticket sales for the 46th Cambridge Folk Festival had not been what they might have been, particularly weekend ones, but on the selfish side that meant a nice small queue to get in and plenty of space to camp. A stroll round the site also revealed a couple of excellent additions to the general ambiance. The Tree Of Lost Things is a tree with strings hanging off it where you can tie a luggage label with something you've lost written on it. It's a poignant but also funny experience looking at the labels as "innocence" nestles next to "my pint." Positively groaning with the weight of labels by Sunday afternoon, it proves a great success. As indeed is David Owen's subversive pop-art, which appears all round the site. Undercutting familiar and conventional images they're sought out and photographed frequently and you can see the full set in his gallery here. http://theinkcorporation.co.uk/the-gallery/

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