Now you will just have to bear with me here people, much as happened over the last two days and quite a bit of it was shrouded in alcohol! Not only that, or perhaps in part due to that, I’ve a memory like a hen but I’ll try my best to bring you up to speed with events so far in the life of one who escaped the ‘rat race’ for a quite life in the highlands!
Belladrum 2009, part 3
As I recall I left you on Saturday afternoon having just been ‘blown away’ by the Dangleberries http://www.thedangleberries.com/index.php on the ‘Garden’ main stage
Young fan
This bunch of ‘fruit cakes’ have to be seen to be believed and deserve a slot on the main stage at Glastonbury, as they really know how to wind a crowd up into a pure ‘interactive’ frenzy. Now me I’m not really much inspired by traditional bag pipe music or ‘Rabbie Burns’ for that matter, but when these chaps, led on by the indomitable Annie do a take on a ‘Burns’ poem at around 140 beats per minute it’s enough to wake the dead! Fortunately this year they did not play their version of Queen’s ‘We will rock you’. Not because it’s rubbish or anything but due to the substitution of the word rock with a word that Mr ‘pratt’ Ramsey himself would be proud of 
I could not resist
After 45 mins of leaping up and down like maniacs to the loony’s from Galloway it was time to retire to the old ‘Thomson Glenelg’ caravan for a wee rest ( and of course a ‘top up’ ). Unfortunately this took me past the ‘Mothers ruin’ dance arena,
Mother's ruin
where I got stuck for a ‘wee while’.
I dunno what it is but I must be ‘hard wired’ into this stuff, because whenever I hear that beat that equates to approximately double my heart rate I go all ‘pear shaped’ and start dancing!
Fortunately, wife and child saved me and I made it back to the caravan with only minor withdrawal symptoms!
Obviously having fun
Along the way we passed many people enjoying themselves!
A true ‘highlight’
After one or two glasses of the ‘amber nectar’ that is ‘Morgans spiced’ rum a few bags of crisps and some ‘Lidl’ burgers done on one of those barbecue things I headed for ‘Kissmet’ on the main stage.
Kissmet 1
Having seen this Peterborough 6 piece last year quite by accident I’d made a point of looking them up, and was well pleased to see them playing here.
Buzz
Their unique fusion of Bhangra, Hindi, Rock is something else
Kissmet 2
The dude in the red turban said “all creeds, all ages and all races in this band”
Kissmet 3
and he wasn’t wrong
Kissmet 4
They ‘finaled’ with a spectacular rendition of Led Zepplin’s ‘Whole lotta luv’, which to my ears seemed far better than the original and then they spent some time getting to know their fans!
Buzz and the 'sisters' from Kyle
and of course signing autographs!
I'm never going to wash again!
Seriously though these guys spent time with their fans, chatting and signing everything from CDs to bits of paper and are well worth checking out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC62AyKpWd4
More lunacy
With the Peterborough bhangra/indie/unique rockers out of the way it was time to sneak another look at the Dangleberries who were playing an impromptu set outside one of the beer tents.
Dangleberries at the beer tent
and, since their appearance on the main stage seemed to have sprouted a new member!
Young 'Dangleberry'
Regreterbly
That was about it really, I had fully intended to see the Saw doctors, but yet again got side tracked by the ‘dance arena’
Fancy seeing you here!
and its many attractions, like Ali, Becca and Christine
As ‘Ocean colour scene’ were never really my scene I went home early to my bed, It had been a fantastic gig but we had to be home on Sunday and yours truly was driving. I’d had my last drink at 18:00 on Saturday figuring that 18 hours of abstinence and a lot of dancing would clear my system for ‘plod’ and his bag
Sure enough we packed up on Sunday and after an hour’s queuing managed to get out on to the road!
