back to the West Country

late August 2018

Fraggle was going to be back from Barcelona for a rare summer visit (her band Gadjo aren’t up for UK festival summers any more, but she gets odd solo gigs, this time at Shambala), so I arranged to spend a few days with her and Stevie P in Glastonbury. I also managed to run into Pok (of course), and managed to get in a little walk up Wearyall Hill with Emilia, stranded at a nearby travellers site with broken down van. Mostly just talking, laughing, eating, going for walks, etc. with Stevie and Fraggle — there was a little evening saz/guitar jam with Stevie, but it didn’t get recorded.

Then there was also a trip to Exeter to see Vicky and squeeze in the first Children of the Drone session for quite a while. This was the first one we’ve done at St. Petrock’s Church in the High Street. I was always keen to try Droning in that space, but it turns out that the acoustics are almost impossibly murky. Really quite frustrating at the times, but this is one of those COTD sessions where the recording sounds a lot more coherent than what I remember. This involved me, Henry, Lucy, Keith, James T, James S and Joel (who came up from Dartmoor with his hurdy-gurdy to join us).

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