The final bank holiday weekend of the summer is always a good one for festivals. For the last four years I‘ve gone to Shambala but for a change this year we decided to go to the Blyth Power Ashes.
The Ashes is organised by folk-punk long-timers Blyth Power and features music from themselves and friends including Eastfield and Pog.
It made for a very different sort of weekend to Shambala. It is small festival (Shambala is small, but the Ashes is really small) with one stage and a single bar. It was still a really good event though, and only £15 a ticket...
Author: Sean Clark