31/08/07
Greenbelt 2007 -
Categories: One way sure-fire way to finish the Edinburgh Fringe in a good mood is by playing a sell-out crowd, and although Edinburgh itself didn't quite deliver that (see previous post), the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham certainly did. It was the most fun gig I've had all year - I did the solo Genesis show in front of 500 people, with another 500 queuing to get in, and then raced off to a late show on the same site for a 20min in front of somewhere up to 2000 people (I think it was more like 1000). Twas just what I needed.
It was an unusual mini taste of celebrity, just for a day - after doing that gig, you walk around site and people seem to know you. Then you go home and return to normality for another 364 days. It's a little unsettling. Also at the festival were Chas & Dave, Janey Lee Grace from Steve Wright's factoids, a great singer/songwriter called Cathy Burton, m'good friend and top bassist Steve Lawson, fine guitarist Kathyrn Williams, as well as many other excellent performers. Good line-up and a very chilled and fun festival.
I bought myself a Manga Bible there - one of the strangest books I must own now, but I'm racing through it and it's brilliant. The entire Bible, in Japanese comic-book style. Cos I know very little about the stories in the Bible, and feel I ought to know more, so it's a great way of very broadly going, "Okay - Joshua attacked lots of countries, Samson went a bit mental, Job had a bit of a hard time..."
And tomorrow I fly back up to Scotland, due to an administrative error in which my agent thought I was still in Edinburgh for the festival, so he booked me in for Glasgow Jongleurs. Ah well. It'll be a nice couple of days away, relaxing, sleeping, catching up at the cinema, and trying to stay alive among in a Glaswegian bearpit.
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