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I LOVE BYRON BAY I am currently here for the Bluesfest weekend, which is shaping up to be the best weekend EVER!!
Day 11 - Surfing, Travelling & Bluesfest!!! This Morning we were all up bright & early to catch some waves! Good ones too, we had perfect conditions. I had already had a lesson & so was on my feet in no time! got some cool photos too!
After the surf we headed off for Byron Bay & BLUESFEST!!! Took us about 5hrs to get here from surf camp, stopping for a 7$ steak! yess! I have made some cool friends along the way & can't wait for the festival! When we got here I went off exploring, only to find a HUGE Guitar Shop next door! Byron Music! They have awsome Telecasters & Gretch's!!
The festival Starts tonight, WHAT? - I have tickets for Friday - Monday, didn't even know about Thursday!! One of the guys I am travelling with has a 5day pass & so I went to the festival with him hoping to find a tout we tried the box office first - we proposed that the price I had paid was only 15$ short of the 5 day price, so if i paid 15$ I could get the pass & go in. After Ummm'ing & R'ing they agreed - HIGH FIVES ALL ROUND!
The festival is AMAZING & I am Loving every Second here! They have 5 Stages, Marketplace, Food Courts & a Huge CD Store with an A-Z of ALL the bands playing the festival! We saw Zavier Rudd - Who was unbelievable! he was playing guitar, bass, didgeridoo & drums all at the same time! & it sounded AWSOME! following him on the same stage was Keith Urban, who was good, however i soon learned, to my amusement that all the Australians HATE him because he moved to America! lol this guy spent the whole set slaging him off! ha!! Why are you even here??? there are 5 tents!!
We promptly left him & went To the Crossroads Tent for Buddy Guy, whose playing blew me away! his tricks included playing a whole solo while drinking a cup of tea & walking almost to the back of the tent through the crowd! yess!
Day 12 - Surfing, Getting Sunburned & BLUESFEST!!! This Morning we put a 50$ deposit down & used the free boards the hostel provides. Went down to the beach & 'tried' to surf, the waves were ridiculously HUGE, so just smashed us to shore instead of us catching the waves! I managed to catch 2 of them! however promptly fell off! We played football on the beach & despite slapping on loads of sun block - I am red!! why???
BLUESFEST DAY 2!!! I was really exited about seeing Ian Brown, We went to the tent early to get near the front, yess....then Sinead O'Connor came on stage WHAT??? We were at the wrong tent & pegged it through the huge crowd, sprinted to the Crossroads tent. To find it was more or less empty! we asked if we were in the right place, yep! No Australians have heard of him or the stone roses! He came on & the mainly British small crowd watched an AMAZING performance, he did stuff by the roses, his hits & stuff from 'The World is Yours'!! yess!!
We stumbled into a set by 'Galactic' Never heard of them?? Me Neither!! but they were brilliant! after 2 songs we were all dancing & jumping about! promptly went to the CD store to get their album! For the last Set we watched 2/3 of Eskimo Joe's Set (who were good) before catching the last part of Ray Davies's set where he played a LOAD of Kinks stuff! ha (Dad, You would have loved it!)
I LOVE BLUESFEST (& I might even get into next months Q magazine!!)
Love & Miss You All!!! x
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