Stendhal Festival

And the great ragga singer Maca B too woo hoo looking forward to it.

Well Stendhal was an absolute blast and an emotional experience, just the laid back openness, its very much a family orientated festival with a good dose of guitar rock from the North, there is some serious bands down there.

Some of the people that came from the Republic were totally exhilarated by the experience, many people both Northerners and folk from the South were very much social distancing. In fact, my duty on Friday was to cruise around the Steve Martin arena and gently suggest to people who were queuing at the food vendors and bars to leave a little space between each other, most of the time this was being observed anyway. Mary Coughlan who done a brilliant set remarked that she didn't know how to react, whether to wave her arms in the air or break into dance moves as she hadn't toured for ages, there was many other acts also from the south who mentioned it being an overwhelming experience.

I'll be writing a blog review of the only festival I attended and worked this year, I want to compare the Letterkenny and Derry experience, the contrast and how we are hopefully coming out of the bloody pandemic. I'll post it here and the Electric Picnic and Stendhal Festival forums. It may take a few days to unravel the detail, but I have all the pics and videos transferred to computer, next is the Youtube uploads and then the journalistic endeavour. Met a few boardsies at the event, Penfailed I met, and another poster and his wife, I can't remember the username but he's a big Depeche Mode fan and always hoping that they play the Picnic, he reckons though he hasn't posted in two years.

True about the night time Penfailed, people a bit more inebriated I suppose, I was working during the daytime and it was less rammed and more families about. Night time did get more crowded but still seen folk masked up at Maca B and various other gigs. I suppose to a lot of young folk just want to forget about the pandemic.

Kila - Saturday

Ash

The Bonnevilles.

Good article.

We are tempted to take the kids to it next year, would be first time we have ever camped out.

Do you think it would be an enjoyable experience for kids between 8-12?

Have they much to keep them occupied?

Great, will definitely stick it on the To Do list for next year

Where was the Henry McCullough stage, I completely missed this stage? Was it in the wooded path going from the Wooly woodlands stage. There was a whole bunch of acts I missed on that particular stage and after writing the review I went, fcuk, I fcuked up there.

Aaah it was the stretch tent up in the top corner, feck I thought it was just a seating area as they had loads of stretch tents around the place with just seats under them. I will remember the next time if I make it back.