Friday 23rd August 2024
Our latest festival takes us to Cumbria for the 20th annual Solfest festival.
Solfest is a music and arts festival on the Solway Coast in the North West of England.
It is held annually at North Lakes Country Park on the August Bank Holiday weekend.
It has grown from a 1,800 capacity event in 2004 to a 10,000 capacity festival.
This year, acts due to perform at the first day of the festival had been cancelled due to the bad weather. Heavy rain and high winds which battered Cumbria on Wednesday night meant the organisers had to make the decision to delay opening the stages until Friday morning.
We set off around midday – boots, umbrella’s and cagoules all packed…
Back in the gold bus today with the crew going in Mick’s van…
The plan was to travel to Keswick for our lunch…
First video today was very funny…
The weather was brightening up and in no time we were up amongst the fells…
Team Mullin had gone on ahead in their camper van and arranged to meet us in Keswick.
Here is Keith trying out his new gimbal…
Meanwhile we’re on to our next video…
Just passing Penrith…
The film finished as we were just entering Keswick…
Our pub of choice is…
We fancied the blonde beer…
It was a popular choice…
The menu…
Some good choices…
Keith joined us in the pub…
Time to squeeze in another pint?
Some facts…
We had an Only Fools & Horses moment heading back to the bus…
We waited in one car park while the bus was in the other😫
Off we go again…
The beautiful Skiddaw…
Time for one of our favourite films…
Then…
Aggro in Baggrow…
There was only one road into the festival and we got stuck in a queue…
Fortunately we had a box of beer left over from the last festival…
Eventually we arrive at Solfest…
Everyone out…
Our dressing room…
Back stage…
Time to have a look out front…
The Solway bar stage looked interesting…
Great atmosphere in here and out of the wind…
Decent beer on sale too…
There was a bar backstage…
Time to go on…
Great photos by Andrew Simpson 👏
Great crowd…
The weather started to get worse and as the gold bus had gone early, we got ready to leave in Mick’s van only to find it stuck in the mud!
Disaster averted and as it was still too wet to go out and get food from the festival, we set off towards the motorway in search of KFC…
Oh dear…
Lost in the service station at midnight🥹
Another brilliant day out!
sipadvisor 