Lets have the Garifuna Womens Project for next years womad please

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You were in 4UM Nerd Central.

We had the Hi Viz yellow flag next to your tent.

Amazing complexed bubbles you made.

If you want to talk after all the part timers dissapear from here you know were to go . .:-)

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:-(

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However ever since my first womad 5 years ago i have thought that fabric wristbands would be much more comfortable and hardwearing. The writing and logo often rubs off mine and surely it would be more ecological to use fabric ones?

Obviously im sure there are cost issues as its probably more expensive, but overall i think it would be a better idea!

:)

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You just reminded me - I must get some glow-in-the-dark guy ropes for next year... And I don't just mean day-glo ones, definately need glowing ones! I was tripping over mine myself, never mind other people :-s

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Giant bubble people.... probably tripped over you coming back to the tent in the dark!

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Don't know about disco dancing though, we were doing weird Algerian (?!) dancing to Rachid Taha in the early hours of last Saturday....

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When your friends are round at your house and your having a few glasses of wine or bacardis or whatever is your preference, are you telling me you don't put music on and sometimes you don't suddenly start doing weird disco dancing at 3 in the morning and sometimes you don't break into kareoke and sometimes you don't replay that song 10 times and turn that one up really loud, then wave goodbye to your guests from your front door at 4am...trying to be quiet but shouting goodbyes down the street?

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we were about 50 foot outside the tent since we had a baby with us - but even at that distnace we jumping around like fools anbd lovng every second of it!

Expected musical highight : Shane MacGowan - he never fails to be anything less than brilliant!

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Aaah. reminds me of my well spent youth, collecting discarded Corona bottles to get the deposit back on them. If you knew where the shopkeeper stored them then there was a few bob to be made.. lol

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Womad is very well organised, really it is, compared to some. Mean Fiddler run some of the festivals CP mentions very well from a H&S and licencing viewpoint but they are very corporate and often have big sponsership. The smaller festivals can be great but sometimes they make schoolboy errors. I LOVE Womad it strikes the balance between the 2 and if I was looking at it with a work hat on I would be very happy.

A bit more cider would be good...... come to the Great Dorset Steam Fair in Blandford this week the cider starts at 6.5%!

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Dear chap, sorry to drag you away from the chav shooting season, when your man collected the tickets was he not told there was available a first class water closet for the likes of you. Simply dreadful oversight.

Just inside the Arena by the charities, cost a couple of shillings I believe & no queues required.

Oh and its not mush, it is Mosh as in POSH, I'm sure you understand.:-)

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I used to tell people the cleanest loos in the world are in the middle of the Sahara desert, it took a minute for some people to figure it out!

But i thought hey, I have to provide my own paper and hand gel and for environmental reasons ( the paper will never degrade and would blow round the desert for years) you have to set fire to the paper afterwards. So given a preferance yours are better.

I'm off with the family to India at Christmas on a short explore, once we leave the big cities we may have need of you! :-]

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Medelin can be seen in mid-September at the Festival de l'Humanite in Paris (http://www.humanite.fr/fete.html).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0G0R5Xtas

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This year as we drove into Malmesbury we realised we'd forgotten our chairs, and had to buy normal-height folding ones in town. We did try always to put them where other people also had chairs, and not just put them down in front of people sitting on the ground. But how to deal with this is clearly a problem, as there were a lot of people using them, and I just don't have a good solution.

(I won't go into the other problem, raised in another thread, that we are quite short, and when we watch a performance standing up many people who are taller just push in front of us, obliterating our view. But many thanks to the TWO people this year who carefully asked whether they were blocking our view and found a mutually satisfactory solution - that's never happened before.)

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Guys, put more toilets, specially around the campsite. Not enough by far.

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They have single-handedly changed our festival coffee experience...suitably lightweight and break-proof for camping, they pay for themselves after about three coffees.

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1. There need to be signposts, especially to the parking areas.

2. The gateway between the 2 yellow parking fields became seriously rutted - if there were rain it would have been impassable.

3. Programmes should be available at entry - by the time I found one I'd missed the first event I wanted to see.

4. I thought at times that the noise leak from other tents was insulting to the musicians I was trying to listen to

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Fantastic, thanks.

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These guys come to the festival to earn a shed load not becuase they are altruistic or community spirited. They have to pay a concession to the organisers that would make most people balk at even trying.

I'm not buying beer at the festival next year - for the most part it is was less than a pint and there was not enough of a selection! I suppose it would be a little churlish to complain that it was warm!!

Not sure of the intentions of the organisers in respect of taking beer into main arena given the signs at main entrence re no cans bottles etc.

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Also, what's with beer tents - whose idea was it that we don't get to stand up or sitdown inside, only stand up at the bar (or sit-down if you can find a seat?) With that sunshine, we would have more than welcomed the additional shade. Loved the idea with the deposit on the beer cups, but didn't like being hassled for my cup when I still had half a pint to drink!

Definite improvment on last year and the arboretum really came into its own!

:-)

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As seen hovering over Cropredy

And Monica Vascoselos - Hih

As seen hovering over the Radio 3 Tent on Sunday night - magic

:-X

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Finally got around to trudging through my pics and have uploaded to flickr...

http://flickr.com/photos/22731786@N02/sets/72157606813286077/

Should have had plenty more pics, but I seemed to spend far too much time completely oblivious to the fact that I had a camera strapped to my belt hehe! I'll make a better effort next year ;-)

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http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/display.aspx?infid=3550

I would like to recomend this to one and all not only the album but the B&W music club as well. There is a free trial available at the link above.

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I limit my use to maybe 3 sheets, possibly up to fifteen sheets for the whole event. Quite enough. Any advance??:-)

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We noticed last year he had a note in the window about his cakes being without e-numbers or additives (no notice this year, but the same cakes - we asked and were told). With the heat this year, we loved his banana smoothies, big cup for just £2 and 2 bananas in it, his sign said, though we thought it should read 'milk shake' because without yoghurt they aren't true smoothies, but it's a minor quibble. Top value!

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Cheesy German pop

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