WOMAD!

Last weekend I went to Womad. Its a world music festival in Wiltshire and this is the fifth year I've been.

It was brilliant, fun and sunny.

These are my three musical highlights.

1) Brassroots.

http://www.brassrootsmusic.com/

They are (as the name suggests) a brass band that play re-imaginings of songs. Very energetic and crowd pleasing. Halfway through their set I realized I've seen them twice before at local venues.

From where I was standing they looked like this...



2) Booker T. Jones

http://www.bookert.com/

From Booker T and the MGs, he played a load songs for which the MGs were the backing band such as Sam and Dave's 'Hold on, I'm coming' and a song he wrote with Neil Young called Potato Hole. But the best bit was he said "I'm now going to play a song I wrote when I was in high school and recorded with Booker T and the MGs. Green Onions." and the crowds collective whoop as he started playing the riff.

Here is a picture. Booker T is on the left.


3) Gogol Bordello

http://www.gogolbordello.com/

They played last on the Sunday night and gave the festival a proper send off. Their high energy gypsy punk music went down a storm. I'm really glad I've seen them, I mean how many people can write a decent song that includes quantum mechanics.

This is what I saw.



Womad is still amazing to go to after so long, I don't think I'll ever tire of it.