Rock & Blues Custom Show

By Gaz under Bikes & Cars, Music

Just got back from Rock & Blues. My bike and I were caked in mud, but I had a great time. A friend has promised me some photo’s, which (after suitable censoring to save my pride) I’ll put up in the PhotoAlbum as soon as they arrive. Arrived at about 12pm on Friday in the driving rain after a 90 minute ride up the motorway in convoy with a bunch of guys from the Past Its MCC, and had to set my tent up for the first time in the rain. My leathers were soaked right through to my skin and the inner skin of my tent got drenched during the hour it took me to get the damn thing up. Even my dry clothes from my rucksack had gotten damp where the rain had soaked through the bag material. Music was great on the Friday night, particularly Rainbow Rising, and the rain was easing up. I had a go on the reverse bungie after a lot of beer, which was err… interesting

Saturday daytime was glorious and I managed to dry out my leathers and the remaining contents of my rucksack. Had a major shop around the stalls and bought myself the ‘Team Satan’ hockey shirt I’ve been hankering after for a few months and some body jewelry. The bands were much less memorable, either because I was partying too hard to notice them, or because punk is not really my thing. The mud wrestling was under-subscribed but fun to watch, and the bikini contest was on in the beer tent during the worst shower of the day, so I was unfortunately trapped in the beer tent and forced to watch Things get a bit hazy after that…

Until Sunday morning, with a severe hangover trying to fit my enormous 5 man tent into a tiny little bag to strap to the back of my bike. Note to self: Next time I buy a tent, be sure to remember that I am actually only one man. Instead of riding back in convoy, I decided to set off before lunch so that I would have a fighting chance of getting up the muddy bank before the other 40000 bikes churned it up too much, and made it back home in time for dinner. And a bit of a nap to recover from the festivities.