Eastbourne Lammas Fest

Well, last weekend was the annual Eastbourne Lammas Festival.

How hot was that Saturday?

There is nothing worse than green or red makeup streaming into your eyes!

We pretty much had the full compliment of drummers there which is always awesome.

The Drummers all turned up outside the Winter Gardens and we started to beat our tunes.

We got to play a new tune for the first time in public. Currently entitled 'Claw's Rumble' it's a truly awesome tune, something quite different to the tunes that we usually play. So we ended up playing that around the town quite a bit.

We led a small procession of 3 Morris Sides from the Winter Gardens to Bankers Corner. As we beat the path heads were popping out of shops and windows to see what the heck was going on.

After about 10 minutes we were outside Natwest Bank drumming. We performed a tune then there was a couple of Morris dances, followed by more drumming.

We found out that someone from the bank came outside and complained that the customers could not hear anything inside the bank to which the answer was 'That's because there are 22 drummers outside'.
How I laughed when I heard this!

We then led a procession back to the Winter Gardens, we also picked up a few followers from the town.

After half an hour break we were walking again, this time from the Winter Gardens, along the seafront to the main procession point, just outside Harry Ramsdens Fish N Chip shop.

Again when we arrived we played a few tunes, again (we will drum anywhere if there are people to listen, in fact even if there are not people to hear it we will play for ourselves). Then we met up with the main procession. We had the honour of leading this procession. There is a video on the Eastbourne Live Website, here.

More Morris dancing ensued, then it was back to the Winter Gardens for the meat of the day.

One more tune in the Winter gardens, then there were some very cool bands on stage taking the day over. Culmination with the Dolmen who unfortunately did not have a good PA system, but the feeling was there.

After that was done and dusted we lead those that wished to go to the Lammas Ritual to the Beach.

A gorgeous evening to close the days activity and the drummers were successful once again.

We even managed to sell a whole load of albums that day.

Till the next event, see ya.