My final (planned) festival of the summer was the Moor Music Festival which was held on Ilkley Moor last weekend. It was really very, very good! The bands and DJs were mostly local and yet the quality of the music was extremely high - some of the best acts I’ve seen all year. It was also smallest festival I’ve been to (1500 capacity but I don’t think it was sold out) and I can now safely say: “The less the merrier”. There’s a much more intimate feel to small festivals. You feel you’re just among a big group of friends and and over the course of the weekend you invariably meet the same people again and again which is really nice. As it happened I actually was among a big group of friends as this festival was also our yearly Perry Court get-together and that was really nice too. Now I’ve got a week to get my act together before I jet off to Corsica.

Life is hard.