Harry's got his ear defenders on already
WoW Festival, Burston, Norfolk - 29th June - 1st July 2018
It's our first famberly outing to WoW festival, a whole three miles away near Wolseley Bridge on the outskirts of Burston in Norfolk - a mile or two north of Diss. It's a late birthday present and turns out to be a really nice festival - a reasonable turnout of people, but by no means too many, plus great weather, good beer and some amazing music, the highlight of which is probably the thrashgrass band Whiskey Shivers, who have improbably flown in from Austin, Texas. It's all very relaxed, especially as there are never any queues for the bogs and the camp site is a mere 200 metres from the main arena, plus we're camping (in the van) next to Hannah and Ed and their friends, which means that the boys have other children to hang out with.
next album: RAF 100 Flypast and Sing Tong, Diss, Norfolk - 7th July 2018
previous album: A SwiftKey Lunch, Porchester Place, Edgware Road, London - 27th June 2018
This might be the band Love Songs for Losers
The bar staff get carried away
A well-dressed mannequin
Isobel does some diablo
A band appears
An abandoned caravan
One of the nicer festival views, near the bogs
Isobel helps out with temporary tattoos
Harry gets his hair done
Charlie plays some guitar
Isobel and the boys sit on bales
The Delta Beltas
A big resonator guitar
Delta blues from the Delta Beltas
Outside, there's a water fight going on
More water fights
Fred pumps up some air to launch a rocket
Harry's got a fish on a stick
An explosion of water as the rocket launches
Fred makes a thing
Harry looks in a mirror
Fred and Harry are doing crafts
The Maui Waui tent
Harry gets his creation photographed
Katie Spencer in action
Someone's excited for pizza, so they do a handstand
Funky parasol
A small girl, and a lot of toilets
Gaz wanders over
Some of the outdoor urinals - waz @ WoW
Katie Spencer sings
The flags aren't as annoying as at Glastonbury
Ed with his tankard
Isobel and Fred wander down from the campsite
The excellent Sefo Kanuteh
Sefo Kanuteh looks up
Circus-tent stripes
The Maui Waui lounge at WoW
Johnny Steinberg and the Bluefish
A dog in flowers
Johnny Steinberg
Hot Raisin in the tent
Guitar action
Back outside, Bessie Turner is on the main stage
Bessie Turner on stage
Bessie Turner In-between songs
Bessie Turner on guitar
Festival crowds
Fred and his gang
Fred covets a sort-of ball Rubik's cube
Hip-Hoppy act Almatic
A meso-American woman roams around
A hippy-trippy dancer
A girl runs off with the flag
We bump into 'Amandines' Sue
The Lord of Worms' bassist is all hair
The next band haul their gear in
In the main tent
More crazy Mexican/Inca action
Sandie gives a paper-cup toast
More guitar action
Isobel, Hannah and the gang of children
Harry looks up
A great Bluegrass/rock band plays
Stage shenanigans
The 'vote Labour' tent isn't very busy
Somebody's clearly had enough
The band takes its encore outside
Guitar serenade
The Uppercut Band
Solo Banton and band
Jamaican Reggae exponent Solo Banton
Solo Banton tells it like it is
Lights in the trees, like fireflies
The Maui Waiu tent in the dusk
There's a cool laser installation on the bridge
Isobel and the boys head off
The gang walk down to the arena on day three
Spoken-word/beat poetry and the band Wendsum
Poetry in motion
Guitar and flute
Gaz and his mate
Harry's had a face paint
Ed and his mate hang on the bar
Billy Fleming chats to some dude in a shiny jacket
More foot-powered water rockets
Twisted Routes, or Nebula Sun
A small boy looks in
A hairy guitar dude plays the Maui Waui tent
Outside, there's fun with a parachute
The parachute nearly takes off
Harry flakes out a bit
The band Bad Parents
More bottle rockets
Harry does a bit more fishing for plastic
Gaz has a go at the bottle rocket
A nice old Renault 4 and a tiny caravan drive away
Epic Turkish/Albanian band Don Kipper
Don Kipper in action
Isobel dances
The Whiskey Shivers, from Austin, Texas
Bobby Fitzgerald on fiddle
The Whiskey Shivers in action
Geoff Hortillosa has a beer
There's some mad dancing going on
Washboard and guitar action
The bar staff dance like lunatics
Geoff Hortillosa belts out some vocals
Intense banjo action form James Bookert
There's a guest vocalist
The string section gets together
James Bookert's out in the crowd
A small child resolutely refuses to do a high-five
The band does its encore in the crowd
Amandines Sue bops away
The band reaches some sort of crescendo
Isobel and Hannah outside the tent
Ed goes over to speak to the band
CDs are autographed
Ed gives a hug
Ed gets emotional and chats to James Bookert
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Harry's got his ear defenders on already
Harry's got his ear defenders on already
This might be the band Love Songs for Losers
The bar staff get carried away
A well-dressed mannequin
Isobel does some diablo
A band appears
An abandoned caravan
One of the nicer festival views, near the bogs
Isobel helps out with temporary tattoos
Harry gets his hair done
Charlie plays some guitar
Isobel and the boys sit on bales
The Delta Beltas
A big resonator guitar
Delta blues from the Delta Beltas
Outside, there's a water fight going on
More water fights
Fred pumps up some air to launch a rocket
Harry's got a fish on a stick
An explosion of water as the rocket launches
Fred makes a thing
Harry looks in a mirror
Fred and Harry are doing crafts
The Maui Waui tent
Harry gets his creation photographed
Katie Spencer in action
Someone's excited for pizza, so they do a handstand
Funky parasol
A small girl, and a lot of toilets
Gaz wanders over
Some of the outdoor urinals - waz @ WoW
Katie Spencer sings
The flags aren't as annoying as at Glastonbury
Ed with his tankard
Isobel and Fred wander down from the campsite
The excellent Sefo Kanuteh
Sefo Kanuteh looks up
Circus-tent stripes
The Maui Waui lounge at WoW
Johnny Steinberg and the Bluefish
A dog in flowers
Johnny Steinberg
Hot Raisin in the tent
Guitar action
Back outside, Bessie Turner is on the main stage
Bessie Turner on stage
Bessie Turner In-between songs
Bessie Turner on guitar
Festival crowds
Fred and his gang
Fred covets a sort-of ball Rubik's cube
Hip-Hoppy act Almatic
A meso-American woman roams around
A hippy-trippy dancer
A girl runs off with the flag
We bump into 'Amandines' Sue
The Lord of Worms' bassist is all hair
The next band haul their gear in
In the main tent
More crazy Mexican/Inca action
Sandie gives a paper-cup toast
More guitar action
Isobel, Hannah and the gang of children
Harry looks up
A great Bluegrass/rock band plays
Stage shenanigans
The 'vote Labour' tent isn't very busy
Somebody's clearly had enough
The band takes its encore outside
Guitar serenade
The Uppercut Band
Solo Banton and band
Jamaican Reggae exponent Solo Banton
Solo Banton tells it like it is
Lights in the trees, like fireflies
The Maui Waiu tent in the dusk
There's a cool laser installation on the bridge
Isobel and the boys head off
The gang walk down to the arena on day three
Spoken-word/beat poetry and the band Wendsum
Poetry in motion
Guitar and flute
Gaz and his mate
Harry's had a face paint
Ed and his mate hang on the bar
Billy Fleming chats to some dude in a shiny jacket
More foot-powered water rockets
Twisted Routes, or Nebula Sun
A small boy looks in
A hairy guitar dude plays the Maui Waui tent
Outside, there's fun with a parachute
The parachute nearly takes off
Harry flakes out a bit
The band Bad Parents
More bottle rockets
Harry does a bit more fishing for plastic
Gaz has a go at the bottle rocket
A nice old Renault 4 and a tiny caravan drive away
Epic Turkish/Albanian band Don Kipper
Don Kipper in action
Isobel dances
The Whiskey Shivers, from Austin, Texas
Bobby Fitzgerald on fiddle
The Whiskey Shivers in action
Geoff Hortillosa has a beer
There's some mad dancing going on
Washboard and guitar action
The bar staff dance like lunatics
Geoff Hortillosa belts out some vocals
Intense banjo action form James Bookert
There's a guest vocalist
The string section gets together
James Bookert's out in the crowd
A small child resolutely refuses to do a high-five
The band does its encore in the crowd
Amandines Sue bops away
The band reaches some sort of crescendo
Isobel and Hannah outside the tent
Ed goes over to speak to the band
CDs are autographed
Ed gives a hug
Ed gets emotional and chats to James Bookert