Getting ready for the weekend

• Personal mobile phone fully charged? Check!
• Podcast mobile phone fully charged? Check!
• Videocamera batteries fully charged? Check!
• Digitial still cameras (2) batteries fully charged? Check!
• Spare batteries for digital still camera (1)? Check!
• Portable stereo mp3 recorder batteries fully charged? Check!
• Spare batteries for mp3 recorder? Check!
• Condenser microphone (for mp3 recorder) battery fully charged? Check!
• Spare battery for condenser microphone? Check!
• ID? Check!
• Cash? Check!
• Plastic? Check!
• T-Shirts (boxful, maybe 100 of them)? Check!

As you can tell from this checklist, we’re gearing up for something *very* special.

We are preparing for a weekend that promises to be absolutely brilliant. This weekend it is the Cornbury Music Festival. Yippee!

Somehow I’ve managed to wangle us (us in the name of our audio production, This Reality Podcast) full press accreditation and a pair of go anywhere/backstage passes for the weekend.

Forty-four bands appearing on 3 stages over 2 days.

And we can mingle with them all!

I’ve lobbed in a speculative request for a one-to-one interview with Jackson Browne. We’ll do other interviews on an ad hoc basis.

And the public, of course; we shall be interviewing them too.

Last year we camped at Cornbury. This year we’re going to try the ‘day visitor’ experience.

Camping at Cornbury was a piece of cake and a very pleasurable experience, but as we live so close, we’ve decided to come home to recharge our batteries – and the batteries of some of our electrical items.

Not only am I looking forward to a weekend full of music, I’m also looking forward to meeting a bunch of interesting people and having the full-on ‘festival’ experience.

If you’re at a loose end on Saturday or Sunday, why don’t you come up to the village of Charlbury, Oxfordshire and get yourself a bunch of musical listening? Day tickets are an unbelievably affordable £55 each – and under 12s go free.