Lounge on the Farm

A few weekends ago I went to Lounge on the Farm festival near Canterbury in Kent. It was a lovely weekend, despite the schizophrenic weather (thunderstorms, torrential rain and sunshine are just great when you're camping….), and even though it slightly paled in comparison to other smaller festivals I have attended (namely Larmer Tree and End of the Road), we really enjoyed it nonetheless.

The highlights, musically, for me were Jessie Ware, Seasick Steve, Sivu, Beans on Toast, CoCo & the Butterfields, Tribes, Lucy Rose, Eliza & the Bear and Gentlemen of Few. I would recommend checking out any of those artists you haven't heard of! Talking of music, I keep meaning to do another monthly playlist. I posted the first one in January with high intentions that have never been channelled into actual posts.

I took along my camera to take photos for Aled's review for The 405 which you can read here!

Here are a few of my favourites...

A wedding & a festival

I thought i'd share a few photos from the past two or three weeks. I spent a weekend at home recently for a friend's wedding and a family christening. The wedding was a lovely day, luckily with sunshine, and I may have gotten a bit tipsy (read: very). I love attending weddings and hopefully this is the first of many over the next few years, as we enter the second half of our twenties and everyone seems to slightly grow up!

A few weeks ago, Aled & I went to Bushstock, which is a one day music festival held in Shepherd's Bush, put on by folk indie record label Communion. I was only familiar with a few of the artists but had high expectations as the quality of music is always very high with any artist on Communion. I was lucky enough to be able to take a few photos for Aled's review. I love live music photography but am still very amateur. I haven't yet mastered the manual mode on my DSLR and I need to teach myself over the next few months so I am ready for a few summer festivals we are covering. It's only a hobby and hopefully I can slowly improve my skills. I have also picked out a new lens which is waiting in my Amazon basket for my next pay day!

These photos were taken during our brief week of summer here in England. It's now rather grey and dreary. Summer, you were great.

 

Larmer Tree Festival (a rather belated post!)

I'd like to share my photos from Larmer Tree Festival - I went in July and for some reason have only got round to sharing these now! I was lucky enough to attend the festival to take photos for a review my boyfriend was undertaking of the festival which you can read here.

I love festivals but had never been to Larmer Tree before. Most people have not really heard of it but we had because the Larmer Tree Gardens (where it is held) are very close to our hometown of Salisbury. It's a lovely small family friendly festival with a high standard of music - lots of acoustic/folky types with a bit of indie, pop and world music thrown in there.

We went with some friends and I had such a good weekend. It was raining most of the time and very muddy but amazingly this did not the dampen the spirit at all, which is pretty amazing for me as even though I have been to many festivals I had not yet encountered a mudfest quite like this.

I took many, many photos - but here are a small(ish) selection of my favourite ones.