Today I set up a tent for the first time ever. My parents were Scouts & Cubs leaders when they were younger, but we didn’t go camping as kids. I guess there were just too many of us that it would have been a bit of a nightmare for my folks. The tent is for Electric Picnic this weekend, which is also the first proper outdoor festival I’ll have been to in my life. I’m performing at it, but not musically, unfortunately. I always promised myself that the first festival I’d go to would be one I was performing at, and indeed this is the case. I’ll be dancing with the Opus Gei crew in the thisispopbaby tent, though. Perhaps I should have been more specific in my promise to myself.
Then again, I did spent most of my 20’s playing music for other people, as opposed to working on my own, and who knows, maybe a year will change a lot in my life. I’m looking forward to this weekend though, though the fact that my car has been out of action for over 2 weeks now is adding a bit of awkwardness to the arrangements. Living where I do it’s difficult to get anywhere without a car. I’ve been walking the 3 miles to town a lot, which added to the dancing rehearsals has made up for the fact that I’ve not been able to get to the pool much lately.