DFDF

Home from a road trip to DFDF with bardling   and keristor , for the former's GoH appearance.

Managed to pack four guitars, a Stagg upright bass, a synth, two amps, a djembe, a stands bag and three people's luggage into the Roomster, and probably still had space for the same again (useful when it came to bringing back a mountain of Ritter-Sport for Anne, of course...). We did the Harwich/Hoek of Holland overnight ferry on the Thursday night, and made it to the con hotel by mid-Friday afternoon....

Highspots? Loads.
- Meeting all the German filkers, new and old - it's been TOO LONG!
- Doing jecklar 's "He's Dead Jim" with gnulfy - one quick run through,, and we hammed it up something fab :D
- Jamming with tarkrai , bardling   and keristor  on a whole pile of classic rock on Sunday lunchtime, under the guise of showing the former the wonders of Amplitube on the iPad
- bardling's two sets - we had a ball, and made legoline squee LOTS :D
- My own set... which included appearances from demoneyes, tarkrai, and bardling ....

Set list was:

• Desolation 
• Widowmaker (off "The Oak, The Rowan And The Wild Rose") - for my German friends, the books it's based on are Der Schwarze Reiter and Der Schwarze Dämon by petermorwood - highly recommended
• pdcawley's Child Of The Library, because it needed to be heard
• Cry Of The Wolf (off my "Shattered Dreams" CD)
• Shadowcat (from ORWR, with demoneyes )
• Halfway There (actually on Phoenix's "Dancing Flames" album)
• The Miller's Tale
• Jack
• Locomotive Queen (Moonwolf's mashup of "Queen of Argyll" to the riff of Tull's "Locomotive Breath", with help and vocals from tarkrai)
• Lisa Lân 
• Hiring Fair / Fields of Gold (bardling and my mashup of the two...)

And for an encore

• the inevitable Before The Dawn

I had a blast! Many thanks to the concom for letting me have a set, to R and K for company on the journey, and to everyone at the con for being so damn friendly (as ever....)

I'll be back....