Sunday August 6th 2023
Our second Rewind festival takes us to Capesthorne Hall, a country house near the village of Siddington, Cheshire, England. The house and its private chapel were built in the early 18th century, replacing an earlier hall and chapel nearby. They were built to Neoclassical designs by William Smith and his son Francis.
Much shorter journey today as the venue is only about an hour away so we met up about 10.30…
We have to top up the rider at Rewind so a couple of packs of Peroni bought early doors…
Rain with sunny spells was forecast throughout the day and pretty soon the heavens opened…
In no time though, we were off the motorway and passing through the town of Knutsford…
At last signs for the venue…
Traffic was building up…
Eventually we turned off the road into the entrance to the gig…
Big queues!
A vehicle stuck in the mud!
At last back stage…
into the artists area…
and into our dressing room…
We were having publicity shots taken so we dumped our bags and went back outside…
We headed into the catering tent…
Menu looked great!
Peter and Keith were staying back to do interviews…
Quick look at the running order…
Roy, Carl and I decided to check out the festival site…
Rain had kept off up to this point so we decided to visit the ‘Little Harp Inn’ (see previous blog Rewind Scotland.)
Carl went for his favourite Mr Chubbs bitter from the Renegade brewery…
Roy and I went for the Maharaja IPA…
The beer was spot on and China Crisis had just come on stage so we went to watch them…
A few spots of rain were beginning to appear so we ordered a couple more of the Renegade beers and rushed back to watch from the side of the stage…
Meanwhile Peter and Keith were doing an interview with Helen Barnes…
Interview over, it was a short walk to the stage and we were ready…
The Doctor gave us a great introduction…
On we go…
What a fantastic crowd!
Coming off stage we bumped into one of our very first fans and our ex manager and owner of SJM Concerts, Simon Moran!
Earlier on in the day Roy was chatting to Sonia…
Peter with Gary from China Crisis…
and Alex with ‘The Doctor’…
Carl and I went back out front to meet our guests…
I took my grandson Tommy backstage to eat sweets and we bumped into Keith…
I wanted to show him the stage and we watched the Earth Wind & Fire experience…
It was too loud for Tommy though so I took him back and headed to the catering tent to grab my Sunday dinner…
Just time to watch some of Heaven 17…
Before finally setting off home…
What a fabulous day we all had!
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