Saturday 21st September 2024
Today we are playing at The Heal Music & Wellbeing Festival in Shrewsbury which is returning for its third year with over 100+ acts and performers at the iconic DMOS West Mid Showground, Gravel Hill Lane.
We had to be in Shrewsbury for 4 so we arranged to meet up at 1:30 to give us plenty of time to stop off at a pub…
No sign of any of the band yet and just two crew members because of illness…
Eventually after about 35 mins Carl & Peter arrived, their cab had been stuck in traffic due to road closures near the Strand. The Labour Party conference was being held near the waterfront and the surrounding areas were the location of a huge pro-Palestine march.
Meanwhile ‘Team Mullin’ had gone on earlier and avoided any traffic…
They stopped off for lunch in the village of Broxton…
We picked up Alex in Toxteth but ended up being caught in match traffic trying to get to the Wallasey tunnel – it was a perfect storm😖
It took us another half hour to get to the tunnel as we were ‘en route’ to the Wirral to pick up Roy in a Starbucks on the M53…
Eventually…
As it was now 3pm the idea of stopping off at a pub became unrealistic. Thankfully Roy had brought a beer…
A refreshingly hoppy session beer. Golden ale, providing a mouthful of fruit zest, with hints of orange and grapefruit.
Our ETA was about 4.20pm…
Back in Broxton, Team Mullin we’re sampling the delights…
ABV 4.3%
Let’s give a big hand for…
Salmon Teriyaki…
Sirloin Steak…
As the Mullins bade farewell to the Cheshire Plains…
Back on the bus the weather outlook was grim…
At least we had the bottle of Trapper’s Hat…
To make things worse we got stuck behind a tractor…
We toyed with the idea of watching a video but no one could summon up any enthusiasm…
Then Jim our driver for the day decided he’d had enough of following the tractor and put his foot down…
Next stop Shrewsbury!
We were very near the venue, just a few more narrow roads to navigate…
At last we arrived at the festival…
We can see the stage now…
Everybody out…
Keith was already in the dressing room…
We had a quick look at today’s line up…
Then went out front to have a look around…
Craig Charles was just finishing another great set…
So we went looking for The Salopian Bar…
They had a novel way of pouring the pints…
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Carl had arranged to meet his friend from school days, Kev…
A fingerpost…
A farm fan showing us his tattoo’s…
Dumbo & Dumber…
Time to ‘head’ back…
In the dressing room, Carl had put his foot in it …
Featuring in our rider today…
all. It layers clean malts with a balanced wave of bright hops, crowned
by an instantly refreshing finish. Light toasty flavours and spicy, subtle
citrus hop notes make it an instant classic.
Our driver Jim was the hero of the day in many ways, after getting us to the venue on time after all the delays. Knowing we were a man down he offered to look after and tune the guitars on stage during our performance. Big thanks 👍
Time to go on stage!
The star of the show was this lad with his bubble machine…
The rest of the crowd weren’t bad either…
Caught Carl taking the snap above…
We got a great reaction from the crowd…
The official Heal Festival trailer…
After the show we stayed a short while and had a drink with our guests…
Team Mullin headed off first with the remains of the rider setting their Sat Nav to the nearest food bank 😀
Soon enough it was time for us to leave so we headed back to the van in search of petrol and something to eat…
We stopped off at a garage in Prees Heath…
Little did we know that it concealed a fish ‘n’ chip restaurant round the back…
With a fully licenced bar!!!
Fish n chips were delicious as was the beer 🙂
What a fantastic way to finish our summer season of gigs.
Cheers everyone🍻
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