Hi:Fi North

Last Saturday I went to the Hi:Fi North Festival at Matfen Estate in Northumberland. I had a good time and it was the first festival and large music event I have ever been to. There was up to 25,000 expected but ended up somewhere between 7,500 to 12,000. I would guess the lower of those to figures. I went with Val from work, she drove there and there was absolutely no traffic what so ever. I spent most of the time in the Godskitchen tent and a while in the Electric Arena. We did watch some live music on the stage. The best I saw live was "Dirty Pretty Things" who I hadn't really listened to much before. Saw a few minutes of Ian Brown and thought he was crap so went back into the Godskitchen tent to listen to Pete Tong and then Paul Oakenfold who were both excellent. They were the 2 people I wanted to hear more than anything over the night, so I was happy.

We did end up leaving early coz Val wanted to go and can't say I blame her. She did put up with 10 hours of me and she was staying sober coz of driving while I drank lots of cans of Strongbow that was costing £3 a can.

Anyway I had a good time, hopefully there will be another next year :-)