9/11/12 - 11/11/12

Bridgetown Blues Festival weekend.
In the morning I made my way to the Showgrounds which was less than 1km from the festival site.

One of the first ones there

Later that day...Tent City!

I had a lovely hot shower then strolled into town for a bit of a look around.
Bridgetown seems like a nice enough little place.
Our volunteer shift began at 5pm and we were responsible for putting the wristbands on people who had bought their weekend tickets.
It was actually quite a fun job and a great way to meet the punters - a lot of whom were real characters and had us laughing the whole night.
I was teamed up with Chris who would scan the tickets and then tell the punters to go over to Steve for their wristband.
As a result, a vast majority of the people attending the Festival now knew my name and were saying "G'day Steve" all weekend - how funny!
Saturday it was my birthday day......the big 3-2.
It was great to get a few phone calls and texts from family and friends throughout the day.
The best present of all was when Amanda told me that Neil Young is touring early next year - woohoo!!!
I started my volunteer shift at 9.30am with my official title being "Production Assistant" or something...what it translated to was me being responsible for setting up the artist cd signing area and making sure the bands completed certain forms after their set...in between I just basically had to watch all the bands perform..tough work, huh?
At lunch time I met up with Laura and we had a Birthday lunch where I opened a special Birthday package that Mum had sent over and which contained life's essentials such as cheezels, thongs and Rolling Stone Magazine.
Laura gave me some home made vouchers including ones entitling me to free yoga lessons for however long we travel together and a dinner of boiled eggs next time we camp.
That night we checked out the bands which was cool although I felt a little ill (mental note: Coco Pops and cider don't mix).

Mia Dyson...and her weird forehead mic

The sun decided to shine again on Sunday and with our volunteer duties complete, we had a very relaxed afternoon sitting in the sun with a few ales and listening to some cool music including Nat Col & The Kings and the excellent Mason Rack Band. I had seen the latter band years ago but his stage presence and audience involvement has improved so much you would not think it was the same guy - great!

Deb "Spoons" Perry

So that was a cool birthday weekend at Bridgetown Blues Festival...tomorrow I'm on the road again.....