Bands: Flaming June, Eureka Stockade
Venue: The Strawberry Fair Festival, Cambridge
Date: 01/06/13
Audience: Busy, it's a packed festival
Sets: Flaming June - not sure, Eureka Stockade - Speed Of Sound, If, This Vow, All Alone, Drinking Song, Violence, Through Every Darkness
Notes: I've played this festival many times over the years, with many bands - it's one of those dates that automatically goes in the diary at the start of the year and many say it's the start of summer in Cambridge. It always feels like a bit of a struggle though from a performers point of view; parking and general access is hard work, you find yourself lugging a lot of equipment through a field from the nearest multi-story car park - luckily this year I had kind help carrying stuff from Mike, Alistair and Izzy. Got very flustered finding the stage for the Flaming June set and not one of the stewards could help direct me, I was late but luckily the stage was running late too so by the time I found it we still had a little time to spare. I can't deny I didn't enjoy this one at all because of the struggles for sound - we were on a small stage surrounded by louder stages and were just drowned out - there was nothing anybody could have done but it was tough, we couldn't hear each other and often drifted out of time. Louise still sang with all the passion she normally does, but we knew on stage that we were fighting a losing battle and actually cut the set short by a song just to get out of there. Shame, but these things do happen. I then dashed over to the acoustic stage to play with Eureka Stockade. Being undercover the situation was much more comfortable - the stage was being run by comedians (including the mighty Rob Coleman) and there was a cracking vibe in our tent. The Eureka set was a goodun, mostly new/unrecorded material but it's material that now, a few gigs in, are starting to settle, we played well, went down well, a decent show.
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