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Posted by BillH on July 28, 2008, 11:45 pm, in reply to "Re: Trowbridge - The "Donny In A Muddy Field" Concert"
....camped out somewhere near Cardiff!
Not really, but I think I was a mistake to try to drive back after such a late show. When I planned originally I figured things would be done by 11 and I might get home by maybe 2 which would have been all right. As it was I probably didn't leave Trowbridge till after 1 with a 120-130 mile drive ahead.
I'm still sure Mo said to go right on the A336 but I went left as I knew that's the way I arrived. But it seemed to take forever to clear Bath and get on the M4 and I began to feel really dozy. I got quite worried about falling asleep so I stopped and cat napped twice along the way in service areas. Was nearly daylight by the time I got home at 5am but at least I was in one piece.
Great review Hanster and great to see you and Mo and Annie and Angela and Annie's sister and better half. I will write something tomorrow but Don can certainly be well satisfied with the show. For me, and I am biased, he was head and shoulders (and then some) above anything else on the main stage and he went down a storm. It was a standard Don show, but the audience felt so into it and alive that it felt very different to a sit down show with old foggies (including me). I really enjoyed being a groupie at the front for once.
Don actually went native and was wandering around the site getting food and coffee which apparently weren't available in the artist area. I'm sure Annie will tell you more about this as she was hot in pursuit but according to Alan (Howard) who I bumped into Don had been stopped three times because he wasn't wearing an arm strap but most folk simply didn't recognise him! Fame as a bystander indeed....
