23 - Volume Two - Big Music Fest in Wiarton

Big Music Fest, Wiarton - June 27, 2009

The musical line-up: The Spades, Arkells, Sam Roberts Band, Tragically Hip

The good: Arkells totally rocked (as always) and had a fun little autographing session after their set

The bad: waiting in lines to get to wait in lines to get to wait in another line to get a beer

The ugly: on the shuttle bus to the music festival, one incredibly drunk young man didn't quite hold the liquor he'd had before boarding the bus (ew!)

There were between 15,000 and 20,000 people at the event. I was there with my friend, Kerri and her sister and brother-in-law. In a crowd of 15,000 people, with line-ups for everything you ever wanted to do (drink, eat, pee), you can imagine how hard it is to keep track of each other. So while separated from everyone else at one point, I was walking through the crowd when a woman yelled out to me that she liked my shirt. Excited to have been found by a fellow Dan Griffin fan, I walked over and started up a conversation, only to find out that they were a group of people who are big fans of birds and they were impressed by the owl on my Dan Griffin shirt. They didn't even know who the Arkells are ..... Anyway, after I got over that, I spent a lot of time hanging out with these guys and they were a lot of fun and really cool people.

This entry is from Pat, who is a photographer.
Pat Fowler Photography

Excuse the legibility. By this time of the night, much beer had been consumed and it was quite dark.



Though the three of them (Pat, her husband Charlie and Pat's best friend Cynthia) didn't have their wallets, Pat sacrificed parts of her carton of smokes.

This is Cynthia's entry. it reminds me a little of an entry from "6 - Volume One: Post-Dublin (cont'd) "