Although people had mentioned that it might rain on Sunday, the fourth and final day of Rifflandia, I decided it would probably be sunny. I was wrong. There were moments of sun, but there were more moments of grey, and plenty of periods of rain. Luckily, I was wearing sensible shoes for rain as my […]
Saturday at Rifflandia. It was my first full day of “festival-ing”, and it was indeed full. This festival jams so many artists into one day, it’s insane. I started out with Hey Marseilles. They were one of the bands I was most interested in seeing, due to my keener pre-festival artist research. I’m not sure […]
My eyes opened on Friday morning covered in a glaze of sweat, stale beer, and lack of sleep. Heavy static slowly dissipated from my sight as I rinsed off the party grime from the night before. Cup of coffee with a cigarette to shed my groggy morning skin and look ahead to Day Two of […]
A new era. A new renaissance, in all the arts and sciences and the ways people thought and lived. No year since the Age of Enlightenment has been more significant than 1922, at least according to author Kevin Jackson; although, even early 20th century poet and cultural commentator Ezra Pound would have agreed, having referred […]
Although people had mentioned that it might rain on Sunday, the fourth and final day of Rifflandia, I decided it would probably be sunny. I was wrong. There were moments of sun, but there were more moments of grey, and plenty of periods of rain. Luckily, I was wearing sensible shoes for rain as my […] 