Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019: Friday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Friday: It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet said never before -- and he had been coming to Sidmouth for goodness knows how long... two y...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019: Thursday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Thursday: Lady spent entire concert writing postcards and letters. Full on address book, envelopes, stamps on her knee. I found this both distracting ...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019: Wednesday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Wednesday: Nine days is quite a long time to spend listening to folk music, sleeping in a tent, and living on coffee and beer. Seasoned festival goers ...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019: Tuesday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Tuesday: Some people are organised. Even in a tent. They bought their eco friendly reusable cup on the first day, and have carried it with them for t...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019: Monday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Monday: So. A knight rapes a poor maiden and sensibly tells her his real name so she can name the child after him. So she tells the king and the kin...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019: Sunday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Sunday: There are no cash points in Sidmouth! At any rate none of the cash points are giving out money, and none of the shops are doing cash back...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019:Saturday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Saturday: NOTE:=You are almost certainly not the first person to have spotted that the word “folk” sounds a bit like the word “fuck”. You all probab...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019:Friday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Friday: Oh the English, the English sunbathing and playing cricket on a pebbly shingly beach taking surfboards out into a calm sparkling blue sea th...

Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019: Thursday

The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Thursday: Sidmouth, please. Single or return? Single. £7.10, unless you would like a daily rover. No, I’m just going to Sidmouth It’s just that ...