JAMMIESAMMY

First off the Blyth power folk/punk festival was amazing.  It tipped it down the first night and me and paul left our tent wide open so when we got back to the tent after watching music it was filled up with water.  DOH, NOT a good start, but with spare clothes on hand we managed to mop up the majority of the tent so huzzah for extra stuff.  Then the well that fed the campsite dried up so noone could drink any water hehehe but joseph got a van and filled it with empty plastic bottles and filled them up down the road for everyone so that was okay, but the thing was the well also fed the loos so the loos wouldnt flush, so they had to get portaloos in to the campsite as a replacement. Twas all a bit of a disaster but at the same time community spirit rallied around and it was just awesome. Friday music was amazing I love love LOVE wob.  Specially souvenier it's like if my life had a soundtrack that would be one of the songs.  I love that song so much! Pog and Cracktown and mourning for autumn, were also great to see again.  The whole of the Blyth power ashes is almost like a massive family.  I'm not sure where I fit into that family, some deranged illicit second cousin but seeing all these bands perform always make me feel really happy that I can be counted among them

Also my set was supposed to be on friday night but the venue had messed up the music liscensing so they had to stop the music at 11 rather than the original 12 so my friday evening slot got moved to sunday afternoon.  It didnt fuss me whatsoever, if anything I was kinda relieved cause the journey to the venue had been hellish,   so I could relax on friday instead of being stressed.  I over did it though and drank faaaar to much it was unavoidable as they had adnams on tap, a girl can't resist things like that. 
Saturday was drier and the music was ace, it doesnt get much better that eastfield, anal beard and Blyth power, then sunday was my set. But not before we witnessed the sunday choir regaling Jessi with a song that simply wont get out of my head about how big his nose is. 
1pm was approaching pretty quick!  OMG how scared was I, I even screwed up a few obvious songs which annoyed me and only compounded my fear, then I finished my set.  John Beast was really nice to me though.  After my set he came up to me and said that he really enjoyed my set. Then he asked if he could book me for a gig in nottinghamshire, so result there!! The lying scotsman was amazing even as a one woman show, and im glad we got to stay to the bitter end because The charlies and more blyth power was excuse enough to feel sleep deprived in the morning

 I took 12 cds with me to sell feeling optimistic that I would manage to sell a couple and the whole lot went pretty quiclkly  after my set(thank you Kerry and Paul for being on the merch stand at that point).  I had other people asking for autographs (which was a new experience for me) and more cds but i didnt have any more with me and the best bit of the whole thing was when this 6 year old girl (zoey, very adorable) came up to me and gave me a picture that she had drawn of me up on stage singing my pet rock charlie song.  That really topped my weekend off beautifully, far more than anything else of the weekend, better than the cd sales, better than my set, shes a really good artist and I drew her a picture as thank you..  im going to laminate her picture and stick it on my guitar!

Having Ed Kerry, their kids and dog (poppy) come see me play was really amazingly cool too and it was ace to spend time with them just chilling out and being chased by wasps together.  Me and my Paul even spent a couple of hours sitting on the merchandise stall selling other peoples stuff for them, which I found quite fun and felt glad that Jessi and Paul stapleton had at least a few hours away from the merchandise shackles.

Thank you really goes to Annie and Joseph for letting me play there again after last year, and I really truly hope I get the opportunity again one day because i'm still buzzing two days later