This:-
First and foremost our heartfelt thanks to Maurice McComb and all the Melbourn Rock Club guys who worked so hard to make this a very special and excellently run festival.
As CRF (Cambridge Rock Festival) was not on this year they wondered, "Why not have our own festival?" and so they did and damn fine it was too, so, without further ado, this was very much a Fellowship of the Stick event with the largest gathering of the Fellowship since HRH Prog 3.
Reaperfest 2015
Chris
said “After this Reaperfest you must have enough material for a novel”
Well
yes, and no,
Indeed
there was much laughter
A
great time spent with the best of friends
Good
music, too much beer and cider
But
nothing I can remember that we’d regret after
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| Us taking it all so seriously |
We
must of course remember also that what happened at Reaperfest stays at
Reaperfest
Accept
perhaps
Nothing
too outrageous did occur
On
this I hope we can concur
There
was of course some pretty outrageous dancing
Late
nights socialising
With
other friends who were camping
Or
glamping
Mornings
doing nothing but chilling
With
really nothing much to do
Apart
from sitting in the sun
Chatting
and just enjoying the pure freedom
Of
it all
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| Camp Fellowship is established |
Early
Friday evening saw us establish our little camp
With
Fender’s den (The caravan)
Kaz
Das Kamper
And
camp Hundy
There
were Corona
And
laughter and photographs
And
maybe wee drink or two to get us in the mood and be ready
For
G La Roche to kick off
The
musical proceedings
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| The ever entertaining Mr Balstock himself, G La Roche |
Preceding
Black Jack Blues
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| Black Jack Blues |
And
the Smokin’ Prophets (our Roger’s
boys)
The
less said about the sound-check
The
better
Been
there done that one to death
And
I think they played a good set
If
a little loud
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| The Smokin' Prophets |
Didn’t
seem to affect the crowd
Who
were all warmed up for Kaine
And
oh yes, Kaine did it again
A
fine set befitting of Dan’s departure
And
after……………………..
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| Kaine, an amazing performance |
We
retired to the camp for late night JD’s
Pizza
and a bit of finger lickin’ hot chicken
We
had visitors some I saw and others I missed
Somewhat
pissed I retired to my bed
While
the others rocked me to sleep
First
thing on Saturday morning Smiffy took Roger away
To
exchange him for muffins and milk
A
fine trade I might say
Only
joking,
Roger
had to go back to Peterborough
It’s
a shame he couldn’t stay and enjoy the fun
With
Kevin, Chris, Tim, Jo, Smiffy & me
But family is family
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| Fender holds court in his den |
So
after breakfast we sat and chilled in the sun
In
the kids adventure playground some had fun
We
watched the old aeroplanes flying overhead
Some
local and others from Duxford
And
before we knew where we were
They’d
re-opened the bar!
Yes
indeed, Saturday had begun.
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| Aeroplanes from Duxford but we had our very own Tiger Moth display! |
Angel Underground kicked us off in fine
biker rock style
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| Angel Underground |
Followed
by a more blues rock led afternoon with
Double Shot, Lovehats
& the Hotpoints
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| Double Shot |
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| Lovehats |
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| Hotpoints |
Before
Dirty Little Rebel
Ripped
the roof off with their brand of punk metal
While
we dined on the finest of Tosh’s burgers
Or
chips with curry sauce
Washed
down of course, with lashings of real ale or cider
And
boy oh boy can our Jo dance with that inside her!
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| Dirty Little Rebel |
Colonel Gomez topped the bill
Getting
on but outrageous still
I
cannot adequately describe the costumes
Just
see the photographs and you’ll see what I mean
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| Colonel Gomez |
Oh,
yes, and then there was the dancing
We
may have been in the courtyard outside
But
we could see the band and the music was nice and loud
And
our general prancing
Suddenly
seemed to turn into ‘Line Dancing’
Until
the Moon came out over Melbourn
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| Oh my good grief, we might be starting to line dance! |
But
what happened at Reaperfest stays at Reaperfest
I
think that’s all I’ll say, it’s for the best
And
at least those photos can’t be shared on Facebook!
This
nights camp-side late night visitors
Were
Martyn & Donna
And
a very pleasant way to end the day
And
indeed the festival
All
in all
It
was an absolute blast
The
MRC did us proud
And
for that they should be proud
So,
until the next time............................
Cool runnings one and all, have a great summer, see you after Balstock.
Grant Meaby - August 2015
