End of the Road Festival 2011

[Tim]

Larmer Tree Gardens - Dorset
2nd to 4th Sept

What an incredible festival this is, very unique in style and not a corporate banner or mainstream fast food tent in sight! Just good traditional grub, ales and wines with a selection of spicy offerings as well.
Set in the beautiful gardens of Larmer Tree in north Dorset, with a band line-up really suited to my musical tastes - a hidden gem IMO.

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Micah P Hinson on the Garden Stage - rather a disappointment live.

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A great selection of Real Ales, which due to meds I am on I couldn't partake in - except once! :(

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An amazing surprise and not a band that were on my radar - London based Japanese rockers Bo Ningen. Not sure I would
want to buy their albums, but quite possibly one of the most exciting bands I have ever seen live.
A full-on visceral assault of the senses, that was very unique and bags of fun. I would love to see them again.

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Joan As Police Woman showed what an accomplished artist she is and also a fantastic person. A highlight of the weekend for me.

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Lykke Li put on a very fine show too.

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4 stages of music on offer, plus many more entertainments, including a Comedy Stage.

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An outstanding set from Midlake, who IMO should have been the Sunday headline act and not Joanna Newsom.

An incredible weekend, despite not being able to do all I wanted due to some quite severe back problems, but I won't bore you with that.
I missed a lot, but even so it was a wonderful weekend of music and I have a lot of new bands to check out :)

[WAD62]

Lovely venue Tim...I used to go there in the early days of the big chill.

Do they still have the pecocks ?

Did Mogwai play, they were advertised, and if so did you see them? :)

[Jonboy]

I visited the Larmer tree gardens for some crafty thing ealier this year while staying with friends in West Moors, very unusual place and yes they still have noisy Peacocks, ideal for concerts though, we went down some very narrow country lanes to get there

[Tim]

Do they still have the pecocks ?
Yup, the peacocks are still there, in fact Joan Wasser commented on them, she's a fan apparently!
This one was drawn to the blue area light, but I couldn't tempt it to display for me.

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Mogwai were the Saturday headline act on the Woods Stage Will, but I opted for Okkervil River - damn hard choice actually, but I have most of Okkervil's albums and know their music quite well - I think I made the right choice, they were on fire.
They were the only headline act I saw, had to head home early the other nights unfortunately :(

[WAD62]

An incredible weekend, despite not being able to do all I wanted due to some quite severe back problems, but I won't bore you with that.


You were sensible to keep it steady Tim...

Been there...done that...ignored the medication warnings :doh::doh::doh:, carried on as normal and ended up upside down in a lake at 3 in the morning, at the big chill in 2005 (I'd slipped a disk 2 days before).

After scrabbling my way out I then had brain failure and thought I was at Glastonbury, covered in pond weed, dripping wet, and shivering, I kept on asking people 'which way to the stone circle? I'm camped nearby...' Needless to say they gave me a wide birth. :doh:

I did manage to get it together again afterwards (unlike my phone), but codene, zydol, diazepan, bifters, and booze can sort a fellow out...;)

P.S. I'm very envious of the midlake gig...

P.P.S Here's some of the lads from 2000 (I think :scratch:)