Alex and I went to the Friday night (1st May) of the Handmade Festival (I was extremely impressed by Alex's thorough preparations, including a table of the artists with star ratings and notes on type of music played). We saw a couple of noisy bands at the beginning, which were not too great. Francisco the Man, an indie band from Los Angeles, were more rocky than what I usually listen to, but a good experience (and provided us with a hilarious sound check). We didn't get on with Bad/Dreems or Delta Sleep, as they were too shouty and the volume level for the whole festival was just set at too loud! Honeyblood were a little dull (and once again rocky), so we went to see Grace Petrie, an acoustic singer songwriter with a guitar, who was good, if young and political (not that either of those is a negative) :-)
Childhood were interesting, but too loud, and Alex watched from outside, while I chickened out due to the cold and watched a bit of 'The House on Haunted Hill' (an old 1959 horror depicting stable men, loopy women and horrendous ghostly masks ) in the cinema room. We then saw Sam Duckworth, another young, political singer songwriter, bizarrely also into wresting :-).
Though not all of the music was amazing, and the volume was just too loud, it was a good experience, and it was great to catch up with Alex. :-)
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