summer gigs

Embrace June 2006 Westonbirt. A hot summers evening, nice countryside the journey down in the car without the roof.... Lots of fun.
We were stopped by the cops on the way. An elderly gentleman had escaped from the local care home, they were searching for him. The helicopter was up and police with torches and bullet proof vests out looking. I was extremely worried they would mistake Spring for the very old man. But it seems the old guy was even older than Spring.... Luckily.

Here is Spring looking like he's sooooo enjoying the whole debacle. Note the old blue sheet he brought for us to sit on..... hmmmm

Here were our neighbours. They had champagne, strawberries, tupperware glasses and containers, a Buddha candle and a lovely red tarton blanket. In fact everyone had proper tarton blankets, various colours, some reversible, soft and warm, padded and posh, fringed and fluffy.
And we had??? An old cotton sheet with paint marks on it.
How classy.


But we did have a the best view ever.

Ok... As for Embrace? They were ok. The sound was good but they weren't enigmatic enough for me. The lead singer was a bit of a tosser to be frank. He said some very odd things about over 40 year olds and I think he was a bit stoned or something. He said he was fucking blown away to be in front of an audience of 8 to 10 thousand people. The venue max was 4000 and it wasn't sold out. The audience were really diverse, the age range was babies to looking pretty old. They played that awful football song.... Which has done their street cred no good what so ever.
The foursome next to us (wife swappers if ever I saw some with matching tartan blankets) kept hugging and even the men knew all the words. I always find that a bit odd that couples even share the exact taste in music to the point of knowing all the lyrics. I've never found anyone to match my taste. The ex used to like 50's music.
It was ok though, it was a lush evening and the setting was perfect. Shame the one and only burger van had a queue of about 150 deep and the beer tent was even worse.
Nice portaloo's though, I guess you get a better class of clientele at an Embrace gig. They know how to flush a loo.
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