Friday 30th and Saturday 31st July 2010 @ Gilcombe Farm, Somerset
Featuring Performances From: High Grade Rockers Dub Sound System, The Fables, Smerins Anti Social Club, Paper Tiger, Sabria Jade, Asian Hawk

Farm Festival is a two day little festival that gives you a mixture of live local bands and DJs spinning there ones and twos. With a strong anti-corporate sentiment (all the money raised is donated to the charity Practical Action) and with all food organic and local, Farm Festival is very rural.

I arrived at this year’s Farm Fest wondering what it would bring me and I was very surprised: It was a lot bigger and more organised since the last time I came a few years ago, this time providing one main stage, a big tent, a dub tent and a host of other things like crazy golf, banner painting, face painting, sumo suit wrestling, vortex and stalls selling festival goodies.

The place has a family feel to it by day, nice and chilled, and if you do choose to take your children, there is more than enough to keep them busy. There was even a Punch And Judy show!

Randomness is the feel you get here. I saw a lot of people in fancy dress and hats of all sorts of shapes and sizes, and during my time I think I may of even met a Welsh bubble bee, Jesus Christ and a fairy.

Band wise, High Grade Rockers Dub Sound System were churning out the tunes in the dub tent from your every day reggae to dubstep - what else do you need? The Fables were a great indie/electro-pop band with a difference. Smerins Anti Social Club played a blinder, getting the crowd going with there funky set. Paper Tiger hit the spot with the nice sound they have going there. Sabria Jade on female vocals was outstanding on all 3 performances, and Asian Hawk nearly blew the big tent’s roof off with his set - amazing scratching and the tunes got everyone going till the end to the festival!

I had great time here and can’t wait to go back next year. It’s an amazing little festival for everyone of all ages, shapes and sizes.

www.farmfestival.co.uk

Simon Portingale