I Spent the last Saturday listening to music, eating bbq and drinking at Shakedown ‘09, a private mini-festival to celebrate six people’s 30th birthdays. Apart from the obvious hayfever and sunburn problems it was a fantastic day with some fun people and excellent music.
Plenty of stuff going on all day, I counted 3 bands, about 6 DJ, some poetry and other odds and ends.
The highlight of the afternoon was Deferred Success who played a great acousic set in the gazebo outside, if you like the idea of “Anti-Folk” check them out, they really are quite good.
In the evening the barn opened up and there was plenty of music inside. The Trans-Siberian March Band were the definate favourites of the evening, entertaining everyone with what can only be described as “A kick ass balkanic-latino-klezmeric-arabic-asiatic brass band!”
There was another band playing who were pretty good, and I feel really guilty about forgetting their name! If I remember it I’ll put it here.
There was also some cool ukulele playing, I never caught her name but was good fun sitting around a table having a bit of a sing along.
Also, Dan cooked meat on the BBQ. This was awesome.
I’ve been putting off updating this propperly due to sheer lazyness, but might as well put something!