This year we decided to abandon the premium camping field after our boggy experience of last year, and slum it with the masses. As a consequence, I needed to arrive on site at the start of the festival, on Thursday afternoon, in order to bag a decent camping spot, rather than rocking up mid Friday afternoon as we have done in previous years. We also planned to up the luxury factor another notch by bringing a massive self-inflating air bed, which meant that I had to do two round trips just to lug all our gear to the site.
Entertainment was fairly sparse on the first day, but I enjoyed an energetic performance by the Aldborough Young Musicians Ensemble. By Friday, the weather took a turn for the worse as I went to pick up Alison from Diss station. By the time we got to the arena, we had missed a few of the earlier acts, but I was able to catch an act going by the rather unlikely name of War on Drugs, which was hard to classify, but certainly provided a pleasant ambient atmosphere. The headlining act was Bon Iver, who put on a much more heavyweight stage show than I would have imagined possible, based on their more ethereal studio albums.
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