January playlist

My other half Aled is very passionate about music, namely folk, americana and indie rock. He writes live gig & album reviews, contributes to music sites and also writes his own music blog, The Evening's Empire.

I thought it would be a great idea to do a once a month playlist curated by both of us! I wanted to go for mostly new songs with a few older ones thrown in, and also a mixture of well known and lesser known artists. My music taste is fairly varied and most of my new discoveries come inevitably from him. I realise it's the very end of January, but better late than never! You can listen to the songs below on the Grooveshark player.

I hope you like it!

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.