Fave five things from Wychwood festival 2009

Posted by Gill Sutherland at 15:53 on 1 Jun 2009

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1. The awesomeness of Super Furry Animals
Festival Frolics is actually still agog and dribbling slightly at the sheer magnificence of the ageing Welsh rockers Friday night headliner set. It can best be called a collision of psychedelic rock, experimental disco fusion and daftness. At one point the whole audience waggled their fingers atop their heads like aliens, as stage lights blinded us and the band shouted 'Earrrrrrrrrrrrth!' at us, deafening all. The whole thing was so darned funky that we fear pelvic fractures may have been sustained during our vigorous disco strutting. Blimey, it rocked.

2.  Daft day-glo gear
Take one Peruvian hat, knitted from the itchiest goat hair known to man and dyed migraine lime: put on head at jaunty angle. Now find some knee-high socks in eczema-erupting nylon, nuclear salmon in hue: pull up so they sit in lovely contrast to your cold, mottled thigh flesh. Oh yeah, baby, you got the festival look all right!

3. Little Boots' glitzy disco
A dazzling evening sun greeted Festival Frolics’ new favourite disco princess as she took the stage Saturday evening as the bubble machine coughed up clouds of magical bubbles. Little girls gasped as they caught sight of LB, aka Victoria Hesketh, looking dollish in her body con dress. By the time she closed with the Kylie-alike Stuck on Repeat, Festival Frolics was arm-waving like a loved-up loon.

4. Bonkers workshops
African drumming, capoeira, watussi for beginners, joke-telling for the witless, advanced monkey juggling… Do you know what? We’ve had half a cider and we’re up for it all.

5. Inappropriate people
You sir! Long weirdy beardy, confused-looking chap with sensible footwear! What the gubbins are you doing here, should you not be teaching science somewhere? And aged lady with pashmina and posh brogues, are you here through some sort of cosmic error? Still, Festival Frolics has had a very entertaining time pondering the secret lives of strangers in the crowd… thank you all.

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