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Dear Lovely Linton People
Thanks again for arranging that – my sis and family loved it!
I hear from others too that Linton was fantastic this year (as ever).
See you again next year (disasters/deaths willing).
All the best until then
David Tulett

Hi Guy’s,
What a great weekend, Thank you to all concerned!
Thanks again
Steve

Just had to say after my 3rd/4th visit to Linton, how much the 8 of us enjoyed a really chilling and relaxing day watching and listening to the great bands that hit the stage.
Main reason for going was Vintage Trouble, who I missed at the Stone’s Hyde Park gig last year, and they didn’t disappoint one bit.
Such an energetic and enthusiastic band, catchy tunes and a great lead man who got the crowd whipped up.
Having said that I enjoyed all of the acts, varied styles and some good tunes.
The facilities, food, drink and atmosphere is second to none. Of course the great weather helped but can’t wait for next years festival !!
Regards – Mark, Jenny, Andrew, Heather, Pat, Trudie, Les and Pam

Had a brilliant weekend.
My only complaint – the barrels kept running dry in the beer tent!!!!!
It was a fantastic event and congratulations on your organisation
Hopefully – next year
Jon

Once again, a fantastic 3 days, the weather, the beer and most of all , the sounds.
Friday: Pat McManus, not seen this band but, excellent guitarist.
Marsden, what a great start, great guitarist. I know there were bands on before but I was late getting here.
Saturday: every band on was terrific, and Band of Friends, and Aynsley Lister,  signed my guitar post gig, wonderful chaps.
Sunday: again, all bands excellent with the excellent of excellent Ryan McGarvey, what a guitar player, and post gig, a really nice chap to talk to, re book that man ASAP.
Simon Mc Bride, 3rd time I’ve seen this wonderful guitarist, he just keeps getting better and of course Cregan & Co, absolutely brilliant, as his son!!!
Everyone there, staff, marshals, all excellent people.
Can’t think of any more compliments, as in the words of George Harrison and Steve Hillage,   “it’s all too much”.
Den P Gibson.

Hi All
Thanks for yet another great festival , please thanks all those who gave their time!
MICK

Many thanks to all for a great day on Saturday and Sunday breakfast.
Our first time at Linton and only for one day but we will be back for the weekend next year.
Can you try and book the same weather next year please
Many thanks to all concerned
Ian and Sara.

Please can you let me/us know the dates of 2015 Linton Festival.
Thank you for superb 2014 festival.
Andrew.

Hi
This was my first time at Linton festival & I wanted to say what a great festival you run, camping was easy with lots of space, organisation was really good, and most of all the line up was brilliant.
Well done from an appreciative regular festival goer.
Regards
Helen Vennard

No question…..
Just wanted to say thank you for a great 2014 festival –
Incredible live music
Incredible green surroundings
Incredible fresh cakes!
Annette Sherrington

Please put me on your email list. I came to the event for the first time this year. I want to return in 2015. Brilliant venue. Thanks.
David Lewis

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Very well run and excellent artists.loved it. – Susan Callow

A great festival, thoroughly enjoyed the weekend – David Good

My favourite festival ever. Great line up, very very friendly, great campsite location and topped off by breakfast in the village hall. Vintage trouble were electrifying!! – Neil Hopwood

I think I have been for the past 5 years. I love it. Very intimate and very friendly. – Paul Collier

Great weekend as usual, massive thanks to all the organisers. Really good to have the campsite back behind the stage again, hopefully again next year? It was also nice to have a range of ciders and the perry  – Phil Barry

Thanks to everybody involved for a fantastic festival. World class music, great company and a chance to photograph – bliss! We’ve just started to edit here with the wonderful Ryan McGarvey… Thanks again. – Liz and Stuart Marshall

Just want to say thank you to all the team who put the Linton Festival together. Thanks also to all the bands for entertain us with their wonderful music. The sunshine also helped to make this the best ever we have attended . Thanks Guys. – Rob Green

Fantastic time at Linton what a brilliant festival. Looking forward to nest year. Hope you return as well Pat. – Mark Charlton

Dave and The Gang. Thank you all for organising another wonderful weekend. See you all next year. – Kevin Hultum

Thanks Linton for a amazing festival.The whole weekend was bloody great!!! Top bands and top weather :0) – Emma Godding

Well we had THE BEST TIME THIS FESTIVAL! thank you Linton festival everything was perfect the music,beer,people,campsite,showers and the bloody weather. See you next year. – John Ley

Had just the best time with mates at Linton yesterday. As always, Aynsley Lister and Vintage Trouble were astounding and discovered the brilliant Morland and Arbuckle. Perfect sunshine, an array of delicious beers, decent grub, and the closest thing to a private festival in a back garden. We’ll be back. Oh yes. – Ted Witten

Thank you Linton for such a fantastic weekend, weather was with us, line up was fantastic and last but definitely not least a great crowd who were well up for it! – Judith Horton

Outstanding weekend. Many thanks to all those involved in putting on this fabulous occasion. See you in ’15 – Ian Brough

Hate coming back from Linton, real life can’t compete ! Superb weekend as ever. Admit to having doubts about the last two acts but how dare I doubt the commitee ! Brilliant finish to a perfect weekend. I’m recommending Mr David Butler for an MBE for services to on-stage announcing, even if Vintage Trouble were too scared to use him  Thanks for all your hardwork guys, it’s recognised & appreciated. – Brian Burns

We had a great time again!  The decision to move the camping field was an excellent one! See you next year!  – Caroline Fakir

Just back after a long drive home. Had an absolutley amazingballs time and the ORANGE HAT met friends old and new. Got to say…the ORGINISATION of this fest and quality of bands…well—yer cant get any better. I personally made a point of telling the volunteers how great they were doing. Musical highlights for me were Moreland & Arbuckle, Ainsley Lister (who kept my POUND COING the bugger) and Ryan McGarvey. Well done to all involved…XXXX den – Grate Denini

brilliant weekend. thank you linton – Micki Bennett

Thanks to the folks at linton for a brilliant weekend of top class bands , and just to add great campsite location cheers again, – Gavin Henry Davies

wrt: Bernie
Emma Godding – Never seen Bernie before. He was amaaaaaaazing!!! Nice guy too.
Andy Wright – Bernie was brilliant.
Annette Powles – He was great – a brilliant night!
Denise J Wilden – Bernie was awesome!
Patricia Davies – Bernie stole the festival!!

wrt: Cregan & Co
Taf Rock – They were wonderful. But even they seemed in awe of us linton lot belting out every single word of Maggie May
Susan Callow – Loved them.
Mark Willett – Awesome, is an understatement!
Patricia Davies – they were brill,
Mike Marshall – Great Band!!! They were superb

wrt: Albany Down
Lee Thomas – Awesome set at linton fest. Hot day and great music. Will be coming to see you play again.
Chas Rust – What a way to end a show, that was frickin’ awesome!!!
Denise J Wilden – An awesome band, I bought both their CD’s at Linton Festival last weekend, the woman in charge of sales said they were good but she was biased, I said she must be someone’s mum and she said the guitarist. I told both her and her son at the end that her faith in them was justified. They were something else.

wrt: Moreland & Arbuckle
Catherine Gardner – Amazing show at Linton fellas. Love the CD. You are my new favourite band!
Ford Glynnandkelly – awesome show guys good to meet you
Eleanor Blackmore – Fantastic show guys. CDs are awesome. I’m now a follower

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Julie @juliedutton111  ·  Jun 26
@LintonFest brilliant

Emma ?@TheEmmaG Jun 23
@LintonFest It was amaaaaaaaazing! Thank you!
@vintagetrouble You guys were amaaaaaaaazing at @LintonFest Thank you for such a special night! :0)
Amazing time at @LintonFest weather and music were perfect :0)
@LintonFest Thanks for a amazing festival Linton! Every day was a winner. See you all next year! :0)

Albany Down ?@AlbanyDown Jun 22
@LintonFest thank you for having us! We had an awesome time! #topfestival #ontour #rockandroll 🙂

Moreland & Arbuckle ?@More_Arbu Jun 22
@LintonFest Thanks to YOU folks for having us play the festival. We had a blast.

John Bohan ?@johntbohan Jun 22
@vintagetrouble @LintonFest These boys are amazing,

John Bohan ?@johntbohan  Jun 22
Best boutique music festival in the land. @LintonFest

Moreland & Arbuckle ?@More_Arbu Jun 21
@LintonFest kicked ass!

Bands

Grainne Duffy ( FB )
Top gig, thank you to Linton Festival for having us back and to everyone who came to hear us play! Great fun was had, for sure!

Pat McManus (email)
Thank you to you and the whole team at Linton..we had a ball too.
So great to finally be there and lets hope we will indeed return swiftly to see you all again(but let me know ..Lol !!),but until then I hope to catch you and somewhere soon…I am sure I will!!
All the best from myself and the guys
Sallie

The Blues Duo (email)
It was a wonderful day and both Johnny and I thought the festival was very well put together and plannned out by a great team of people.
kabukiuk is a new growing charity so all help is truly welcomed we have just started to give grants to families.
Tommy Allen

Steve Browning Band (email)
Thanks, I know all the band really enjoyed playing on Saturday, and I will forward your email to them, which I’m sure they will appreciate. Hilary and I also had a great time the rest of the day.
Thanks again for including us in the festival.
Best wishes,
Steve

Simon McBride (email)
hey mike, yes we arrived home safely, it was our pleasure to play for use, thank for your kind words and hospitality, it means a lot…
cheers
simon
Yeh, Simon said it was hot! And that he appreciated the care and attention provided. Glad to hear it all went well for you.
Best regards,
Richard

Geno Washington (email)
Hi Mike, it was great to see you yesterday and on behalf of Geno and all of us in the band I’d like to thank you and everyone who was involved in the Linton Festival for your hospitality, help and superb organisation which made everything run so smoothly. Please pass on our congratulations to everyone involved because it was a pleasure to play for you all. I hope you enjoyed our show as much as we enjoyed playing it!
Very best wishes, Steve Bingham

Steve Bingham, Geno – bass, (email again!)
Hi Martin, many thanks for your e-mail and I’m so glad you all enjoyed our performance with Geno and the Ram Jam Band as we all had a brilliant time too!

I actually played at your festival some years back with an unknown Blues/Power rock trio called “Blue Pig” We played there on a sunny afternoon and I remembered the hospitality and warm welcome we received and was really amazed how the festival had grown but the welcome and hospitality had not changed one bit and it was an absolute pleasure to return there with Geno. It’s just so impressive when festivals are run professionally and having played most of them (including Glastonbury) I can honestly say that the Linton Festival is superbly run and long may it continue! Geno always responds like that when he senses things are right and when he’s in that kind of form there isn’t another entertainer to touch him and it’s a wonderful experience being alongside him on stage.

I’ll pass on your message to Geno and all the guys in the band….today is our first day off for ages as we’ve just completed a nation-wide tour.

Cheers Martin, thanks again for everything and please pass on our thanks to all your team at Linton as everyone played their part to make it a night to remember.

Steve again…..
You may be a small festival run by people with day jobs but having played most of the festivals in this country with lots of different bands over the years I can assure you that you’re doing everything right and I’m very much hoping to be there again playing my bass in the near future!!

Cregan & Co. (email)
Hi Mike, thanks so much for yesterday – Cregan & Co had a fab time and really appreciated all the hospitality and the relaxed nature of the gig.  Hope you manage to draw breath and recover from the weekend !    Thanks to Bob and Liz too.
Toni Weekes
Big thanks to all at the festival for a great reception and organisation. What a great day Cregan & Co had. Hope to see u again!!
– Pat Davey

Bernie (email)
Hi Martin,
How are you, I enjoyed the gig, even with a noisy rig!
Hope you are feeling better,
Best to Ben
BM

Movinmusic – Mike Hellier (email)
Hello Bob, David, Martin and Mike (and all the lovely ladies in the hospitality area)
We just all wanted to say 1000 thanks for the guest tickets and for making us very welcome yesterday at this years Linton Festival. The last time I was there was in 2005-playing drums with the mighty Sherman Robertson.
Yesterday was a fabulous reminder of how great and friendly the Linton Festival is.
It was a real pleasure to be there.
Thanks again and hope to see you all next year.
Very best wishes
Mike, Simone, Finn and Oscar Hellier

Lisa Mills ( FB )
Big thanks to everyone at Linton Festival yesterday. Terrific turnout, great sound and lovely food backstage. *Ian said, “especially the chocolate brownies”.

Laurence Jones ( FB )
Cheeky selfie from tonight’s gig at Linton Festival. What an amazing crowd, you guys rocked out for us. L.J

Ryan McGarvey (email)
Martin! Thank you so much for taking the time to write, but even more, thank you for having us at your lovely festival. We really had a great time and are really hoping it all works out to return again.
Thank you so much for the great memories, and outstanding level of professionalism in every way
You’re the best!
Looking forward to seeing you again soon…
Your friend..

Linda Valentine, Ryan’s UK manager (email)
Glad you enjoyed them – Ryan said they really enjoyed it, they loved the whole thing.
I’m sure he would be delighted to come back. Let me know as soon as you know the dates and we’ll try and program his European tour to hit them.

Thanks so much for hosting them, and for all your support, and please pass on our thanks to everyone involved in the organisation of the weekend.  It’s been a pleasure to work with you.

I’m sure Ryan will want to contact you himself to say thanks. He loved the experience and was grateful for you giving him the opportunity.

Speak soon and once again thanks so much.

2013 Festival Feedback

EarlyBlues.com review here

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If Heineken did a festival it would be Linton! – Kevin and Carole.

This is my third year at the festival. Thanks for a great time yet again. Highlights were: – Larry Miller, Grainne Duffey, Nimo Brothers, Ben Poole and Band of Friends. – John

Not a question but a big thank you for a fantastic festival. We were there for Sat/Sunday performances. Think this year was the best for us that we have attended. Think we have been to 4 Linton festivals over last 10 years and we enjoy them so much. Lovely intimate outdoor facilities with great real ales and wonderful music. Combination made in heaven!!
Didn’t think the savoury foods available this year were quite up to previous standard but still better than usual outdoor event food.
Well done commitee/organisers!! Another success!!  – Janet & Nick Baker

No questions, just want to tell you that we had a fantastic time at the festival but not sure how to contact you. However, it was not just the excellent music we (me and my other 8 friends) want to comment on. The organisation was excellent. We had reservations about camping but have nothing but praise for the facilities (ie how the toilets where maintained throughout our stay) and the quality of the refreshments available (and the prices), along with the friendliness of everyone involved. We only stayed for 2 nights but will definitely make it 3 next time. Well done! – Janet Wilcock

Thanks for a great weekend, this was our first visit and it was great many thanks to you and all your staff, see you again next year. – Mick Scott

THOROUGHLY ENJOYED MY FIRST VISIT TO LINTON FESTIVAL ON SATURDAY AND AM SURE WE WILL COME AGAIN.  THANKS TO ALL THE ORGANISERS, VOLUNTEERS AND, OF COURSE, THE MUSICIANS. GREAT MUSIC, FANTASTIC RANGE OF GOOD BEERS AND TASTY FOOD – PITY IT WAS RATHER COOL AND WET BUT AT LEAST THE THREATENED RAIN DIDN’T REALLY ARRIVE!  CHEERS  – DAVE & GILL

Another great weekend, as always, so huge thanks to all concerned. This was our 9th consecutive visit and plans are already in place to celebrate next year’s “milestone”.  One small request, if I may. At the last few Festivals we have been kept awake on the Saturday evening by fellow campers playing (quite) loud music into the early hours. Now we aren’t killjoys but, after a full day’s drinking, eating and dancing we need all the sleep we can get. Would it be possible to politely ask campers to have some consideration for others. In fairness, I think it was only one tent this year, but I guess that means the majority didn’t feel the need to continue the party, and may have also found the noise unwelcome.  Thanks again for yet another brilliant Festival. Keep up the good work.  Kind regards,  – Steve Law

I just wanted to thank you for a fantastic Festival 2013. We had a brilliant time as usual and were so impressed by all the music. All the bands were top drawer and my own particular favourites were The Nimmo Bros, Band of Friends and Hayseed Dixie. The organisation, as usual, was superb. I loved the food, beer everything!!!!!!!!!  So just a big thanks to everyone involved and see you next year!!!!!!!!!  – Martin, Linda and Luke Osborn

Hugely enjoyed the event this year – our first time. We look forward to a return trip  Thanks to everyone involved.  – Elizabeth Gladman

Linton is a great festival, and we have been three times. This year however, I was disappointed there was no ‘real’ cider. Herefordshire after all is home to cider. Yes there was Stowford press, but it tastes the same as all the other fizzy,chilled pop that passes for cider these days, come on, support the traditional art of cider making. You had an excellent array of real ales (so my husband tells me). Yours hoping. – Catheine Coopey

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“Just back from a wonderful weekend at Linton festival. Thanks to all I met, all the band’s that played and most importantly. the hard working committee that put the whole thing together. Couldn’t fault it. See you all again next year. Thanks again”  – Taff Rock

“Great weekend at Linton Blues and Beer Linton Festival. Near Ross-on-Wye.” – Andy Wright

“Nimmo Brothers and Connie Lush brilliant last night. Sandi Thom (surely not right for Linton) seemed to sing the same song all night and murdered “I need your love so bad” at the end. Ruby Turner never recovered from complaining at the engineers for her feedback speaker who then balls’d up the sound for the rest of us – shame. Great day though. Let’s hope for some sun for next year.”  – Tony Freeman

Just returned from a fantastic couple of days at the Linton Music Festival, this was our first visit but will definitely be back!  – Janet Wilcock

Fabulous weekend guys. Many thanks to all those involved in putting this festival on. So much work goes unseen but gives us punters a brilliant time. Next year already in the diary. – Iain Brough

A fantastic day today Linton, we were just overwhelmed with the reception we received! Thank You from The Idle Hands. A brilliant festival with a wonderful atmosphere & so superbly organised. Cheers All. – The Idle Hands

Great Festival we really enjoyed it. It was the first time that we have been to Linton festival and we will be back next year. Nimmo Brothers stole the show for me, they were brilliant and should have been headliners. What a Diva Ruby Turner was. No complaints form any of the other acts, she should stick to playing theaters. Campsite was excellent, clean toilets and showers, well done to all of the organisers.  – Dave Morse

First time this year at Linton, had a great time, good atmosphere and some superb music including the Nimmo brothers , Ruby and hayseed thank you !  – John Ley

great weekend, grainne duffy and hayseed dixie were our highlights – Tony Smith

Brilliant 2013 festival, big thanks to all the organisers for a grand job done. Already looking forward to next year! xx  – Annabel Giles

WOW Babies…….LUV to everyone back stage and out front…always such a vibe amongst the haystacks !!! Thank you babies…….long may Linton reign…..xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx keep those haystacks…oh and the cakes backstage mmmmmmmmmmm – Connnie xxxxxxxxxxxxx

What an amazing weekend we have had. Would like to say a big thank you to Probett guitars. I have been using this guitar as my main guitar and im loving it. Had a fantastic time at the Bridge in and Linton Festival.. Back on the road this week to do some master classes at my old Uni in Bham. Thanks to all my fans for all your support was great to see so nany familiar faces. – L.J

Thanks to the lovely turn out last night in Redcar. So wonderful to see so many people supporting live music. Thank you Alan and the guys for having us also. Great fun today playing the Linton Blues Festival! Was our pleasure and thanks for having us. Great meeting Gerry Mc Avoy and his band of friends at it also! Off tomorrow so heading to see the lads in Z.Z. Top do their thing in the Apollo before our show in The Blues Kitchen Camden, London this Tuesday night. Hope to see some of you there. Lovely vibe today, thanks for the support, to all who made it a rockin’ one for us! Much appreciated. – Grainne and the lads…

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A3 Music @A3MusicOnline 23 Jun  A great performance last night from @Sandi_Thom at @LintonFest – best harmonica intro ever? Maybe….just maybe….

Sandi Thom @Sandi_Thom 23 Jun @MissJoJo86 @A3MusicOnline @LintonFest thanks guys!! I absolutely loved playing the festival ☺

Sandi ThomVerified account @Sandi_Thom 26 Jun @juliedutton111 @LintonFest thank you! I loved the festival. Hopefully be back! ☺

Ruby Turner @rubyturnersoul 23 Jun Thank you Linton festival a great night had a ball. A great way to end my birthday. cake, flowers you’re so kind on tour bus party home x

Ruby Turner @rubyturnersoul @LintonFest thank you so much. We really enjoyed it wonderful audience you treated us so well. From the band and myself we thank you x

Glenn Smith @GlennSmithUK 23 Jun Hayseed Dixie. Linton Festival. Comfortably Numb. (Really). YAY!

TheEmmaG @TheEmmaG 18h @LintonFest Amazing weekend! Such friendly people, Hayseed Dixie were spot on :0)

2012 Festival Feedback

Just wanted to write and thank you and ALL the team involved yesterday for looking after us so well. We had a good time and were made to feel very welcome. I had been told what a happy festival you have and yesterday proved that, bearing in mind the conditions you had all endured, there were smiles on everyone’s faces. All the very best you for your future festivals and I HOPE that was the last rainy one!!

Graham www.olibrownband.com

Fab show at Linton BluesFest, my dressin room had been spanglyfied, fluffy fairylight mirror, incense sticks & surprise Mojito in’t fridge…..Thanks so much to the wonderful people who looked after us and the wonderful people who watched and enjoyed what we did! xxx

Chantel MgGregor

Hi there! No problem at all 🙂 Really enjoyed the festival, congrats to all involved. Perfectly organised and weather-proofed!

Lloyd Baytliss

First time at the Linton Festival and I have to say it’s utterly brilliant! Superbly organised, friendly, about 50 varieties of real ale (I’m a convert!), excellent food,and most importantly, some really fantastic bands-hats off to: Eric Bell, Vintage Trouble, The Mustangs, Cadillac Kings, Bernie Marsden, Larry Miller and The Grand Slambovians! When does next year go on sale?!!!

Robert Cooper

First time for us also…. sat in the rain on Saturday we decided that we would be back in ’13!! Top marks to all the team for setting up a fantastic festival and working so hard to make sure the punters got what they wanted. I hope they have a super “thank you” bash!! Bands for me……..Vintage Trouble, Larry Miller, Grand Slambovians. An extra big thank you to the steward on the camping field on Sunday morning who helped us get our van out of the mud.

Iain Brough

Just a note to thank you very much for another wonderful festival, it is an absolute gem! Everything is so well planned and organised, GREAT CREDIT MUST GO TO ALL concerned: in particular, for all the extra work (stress and expense!) involved this year because of the awful weather. You did an amazing job which enabled the event to go ahead in its usual format. We look forward to many more years of Linton!

Many thanks, Mike & Annie

It was our first Linton Festival this weekend; we came because Gandalf Murphy was on. Wow, we were blown away with the fun of the whole show; despite the rain (or maybe in spite of) we had a fantastic time. All thanks to the slick operation and site staff, camping was challenging but ok and the loo’s and showers great. Beer was priced sensibly (£4 a pint at Wychwood fest was a pound too far) and served with knowledge and a smile. Our only gripe was the incline back to the caravan after the evening…..maybe a charity mini bus service next year? A big thanks you to everyone involved, we will be back another year.

Cheers, Lorna, Bob & Callum Fyfe also Jude & Bryan Wimbush.

Just wanted to say, thank you to the organisers and everyone for putting on Linton, it was stellar. Its so obvious the passion behind the scenes for the music and, the atmosphere can’t be bottled, or if it could it would be toward the 8% proof end on the ‘ale scale’. Came on Friday night and witnessed Vintage Trouble ripping up the field, Saturday we were the fair weather festival goers who turned up at 5 pm but were blown away again by Bernie Marsden, King King, and King Mo… blistering guitar. Judging by the continued standard or music I suspect we missed a bit in the morning, checked out Chantel McGregor on YouTube and yep, brilliant. Sunday reached a number of peaks with Larry Miller, having us alternately laughing and gob-smacked. Oli Brown, wow, heavy and just go bloody good really. I can’t take much more … maybe we should head home, we’ve got an Oxford, then Brighton trip to do and a Monday to contend with. OK, we’ll stay for a couple of tracks of the Grand Slamovians … no chance, we were there til the rousing encore and love it. We are aware that it takes a lot of dedicated people to pull together such an event and wanted to say a big, Thank you.

Thank you for being independent, a charity and bringing such great music to out ears.

Three very happy blues/rock chicks…

Maria Robertson, Wendy Hollick, Lindsday Jordan

Well, I’ve just got back to reality…WORK, but I’m still knocked out by the 3 days I had at your festival, it was brilliant. Even though it was raining at times, it was the best thing I’ve been to, the village, the pub, the venue ( if I can it that) the atmosphere the stage, the lights, the covered part, the beer etc but most of all, the PEOPLE, ALL JUST BRILLIANT.

The gate way in personal, all excellent, always friendly to me and again, the tall girl who wore the cowboy hat, lovely girl, every day she said, “welcome again, did you enjoy yesterday”. The lady in the tent who gave out the days paper wrist bands, lovely. Liz or Lyn, sorry I’m useless with names but, the lady I rang up on the Friday morn to make sure the gig was still on, she was busy doing rolls and food if I remember, she said to me, “drive carefully etc”, excellent.

The beer staff, Mike, John, etc, all fantastic people, the blonde lady who gave me grief every time I went for a beer, only in fun though. The 2 lady’s on the beer ticket table, excellent. The dark haired girl on the bar and the taller blonde lady on the bar, just lovely lovely people.

And, I must say a special thank you to Aaron, he looked after me and my guitar like it was the crown jewels. He was one of the most pleasant chaps I’ve ever come across. Each day he went to the locked room and fetched my guitar/case etc, never ever too much trouble and I really do thank him for looking after me and my guitar.

Young Richard, I thinks that’s the lad, Mikes boy, who was taking photos of the bands, we had a great chat about cameras, a real pleasant chap, so polite, a credit to Mike.

The whole sound set up, excellent.

The lack of heavy security which mars lots of live gigs I go to, this was great, even though I’m sure it was safe.

I was almost on the stage at time`s while taking shots with the Nikon, no trouble from anybody. The roadie/helper who came back later with a Larry Miller pick for me….smashing. The festival fans, everyone I spoke to, and I did get around, not one person had a bad thing to say about the event and its organisers.

The bands, just ace, Eric Bell, I saw him as a lad in a pub in 1971/2, me was the lad, not him, well I thought, if he doesn’t do much id still be happy but, he was really ace, a great guitarist, really impressed. Chantel McGregor, well what a find there, excellent guitarist and signed my guitar. The band with the big guy in the kilt….excellent, great rock sound from his band. Bernie Marsden, absolutely magic, a real real player and the 2nd lead, excellent, great songs great sound, great rock, signed my guitar. Young Oli Brown, another young, and I don’t mean that in a bad way but, what a player and such feeling on the Telecaster, very impressed, all the band`s there, not one band you wouldn’t want to see again, and many, for me, which I hadn’t heard before.

I could go on and on but I think you get my message, a real treat to be there and one which I will defiantly do again. Even on the way out from the village on Sunday PM, the marshals up the road by the church, all waved etc, all smiling. I didn’t meet any one person who wasn’t nice, I’ve never been to a thing like that before. May that carry on forever.

I took over 880 shots on the camera, a bit of record for me.

Yours, an impressed gig goer, Den.

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