fleetfootmike | DFDF (Reply)

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....