BEEEF Stock, The Festival To Change The World.

I am a member of a folk/ rock/ blues/whatever band as of quite recently. We had been practicing for a few weeks when I was told that we had our first gig. My first few questions were how, who booked us and where. I later found out that my fellow  members had gone down the DIY method and had ''booked'' a gig at the house of Sarah's, our singer/ guitarists house... to be the headlining band. We would play in the garden on a raised platform while people watched on as tents littered the grass.

It would seem that the gods looked favorably on our band because while I was walking back with fellow band mate and friend for a long time, Munchy, after our first band practice... we saw a rainbow in the sky... and while the below picture was taken we decided to take it as an omen of good fortune...

Weeks later it was decided that our band was called The Garden Party and that the festival that we had just thought up would called BEEEF Stock.

A banner was made of radiant beauty...

Now I know that there seems to be three E's in Beef. The extra E is for emphasis... but actually the real reason was that I accidentally made the F the last E and so had to create another F instead.

It turned out that on the day the garden in which BEEEF Stock would have been held was waterlogged because of the rain so instead we were able to relocate our festival to the Paget Arms in Loughborough town.

... and so we played our songs... for the first time ever... in front of an audience.

... and here is a picture of the performance in front of friends, acquaintances and the woman that may have watched behind the bar.

To celebrate our first gig as a band we ate some dried crickets that they were selling behind the bar... then got up on a table and recited a sonnet.

BEST... GIG... EVER.

Over and Out.
ED.