Sunday

Sunday starts with a bacon roll followed by a little bit of luck. I bump into Suntrap's incredibly powerfully voiced Paul Hoad. Paul and the band are driving across to the site so no waiting for the bus for me this morning.

A quick meet up with some of the team and it's off to the Club Tent to take in the Sunday Workshop which is guitars given by Ian Carr. There's already a good number of guitarists there. This includes one girl with an electric who slightly embarrassed asks if it's ok to plug in, it was.

The guitarists seemed to be enjoying themselves, but unlike yesterday's air fiddle escapade, there wasn't any attempt to bring in spectators so instead it's off to the Radio Two Stage to sit in the shade, listen to a casual session and read the morning paper.

As is the Sunday Morning tradition, anyone venturing too close to Stage One has to put up with the weekly Archer's compilation, surely one of the most surreal events at any festival.

There's time to squeeze in a quick half pint before the music kicks off at twelve. Stage One is being lead off by 422. Even though their set is similar to that of the previous day on the Radio Two stage, I'm still overwhelmed by so much talent in a band so young.

There's slightly less pace in the set today and by the end of it I was wishing that one of them was confident enough to add just a little vocal to the scintillating instrumentals.
It also occurred to me that a lot of the young bands that come through seem to end up cursed with line-up changes. I hope that doesn't happen to 422 as they seem to have plenty of spirit combined with all that talent.

Next up is one of the strangest acts to grace the Cambridge stage, Tony Benn and Roy Bailey. The act is similar to their recent(ish) radio show. Roy Bailey is part of an apparently weakening breed, that of political singer. Tony Benn is a renown politician and tea drinker, yep that Tony Benn.

Roy contributes a number of songs of protest from across the years, Tony contributes a collection of prose on protest and radicalism across the same period.

A number of the referred to individuals are household names, others will only be known to people with an interest in diggers, levellers and the like. Whilst the set wasn't the most entertaining that I've ever heard it was fascinating.

I would catch up with Roy later after he and Tony had finished their signing session at the Mojo Tent.

Tarras miss out once again as I shoot across the site to catch The Arlenes at the Club Tent. The husband and wife team deliver one of the most country orientated sets of the festival.

Their particular style draws on more of the hillbilly tradition that spawned rockabilly rather than the more country and western styles. The set was a welcome rehabilitation to a style that I've neglected for a while and one worthy of a bigger stage appearance next year.