Well, well, well .. . .Where do I begin the adventures of Adam, Tilly, Neil D and Myself?
Friday.
After some first rate loading of the car from Adam, which just left enough room for three (at this stage) humans to get in the car we set off for the Cornwall at about 11:00am. The journey was pretty good with just a slight hold up near Stoke due to V Festival traffic. We made our first and only stop near Bristol for a leg stretch and a bite to eat and then completed the trip to Cornwall with little drama. We arrived at the festival site at about 6PM to be greeted by friendly marshalls, camper vans and mud! We were directed to the top field where we located "Camp OSA" populated by Debs, Alex, Liam, Abigayle, Will, Scott & Benny. We also bumped into Dave and Helen who were responsible for putting on the event, what a top couple they are!
Adam had his tent up in about 10 minutes, where as my four man, two bedroom affair from Tesco was a ball ache. Despite the help of 3 or 4 people it had the better of us for over an hour only then to find out a part was missing!
Anyway with that drama sorted, out came the Beer and the we all could chill! The Picks Crew had been playing down at the venue whilst we got sorted. We headed down to the Long Barn to watch Adam W play 2 hours of really good Legends style downtempo music. He played a really good set.
I proceeded to get very drunk on Keyhole Cocker, the local ale and spent a fair bit of the evening wobbling around or falling over! We had an mini party in our tent, where we were joined by Superdan, Vee & Butty who had finally made it down and also my mate Neil D, who I asked "where are you on my mobile" only to turn round and see him in front of me!
Eventually people drifted off to bed and I passed out.
Saturday.
Woke up with a fuzzy head. However, Tilly sorted us all out with a top full English. Much of the afternoon was spent lazing around drinking beer, but eventually we dragged my rediculous number of records down to the Farm in preparation for the nights music. By this time we had also met up with Harri, Sonic 92 and his lovely girlfriend Maria and Silky and his crew.
The festival was set around a farm courtyard with 3 rooms/barns. The main room was a big barn that opened out onto the farm yard that housed DIY's original Black Box soundsystem and had an elevated DJ area up in the rafters. What a beautiful sounding rig, it was fantastic! DIY had been on it all day playing their blend of garage based deep house and had it locked on a groove all day and night!phones:
Debs (Northern Star) played a great set of progressive tunes to kick the Bunker off, well done mate! Meanwhile, upstairs in the Long Barn, Butty kicked off the 4 Hours of OSA house classics at 7PM. The venue was ace, had great wall projections and a decent sound system.
I followed on from Butty's set of classics and played an off the cuff set which I really enjoyed and apart from a bit of trouble with a jumping stylus it went well. I probably enjoyed playing "nobody likes the records that you play" the most.
By this time the room was filling up a little more and I handed over to Alex Bennet to bring it home for OSA, which he did with knobs on. Alex played some great slightly moodier house and mixed it superbly.phones: I thought you played one of the sets of the weekend.
Alex handed over to Cass Roc (top bloke) of Krush who played an hour or so before DIY were moved inside to the Long Barn. DIY. . . .What a great bunch! They all looked spannered by this point and it was a miracle they could play at all, but play till 3am they did. It was as much fun watching them as listening to the tunes, pure comedy. . . .God Bless Them! Down in the Bunker, Chris Liberator and his gang were playing some banging Acid Techno which went down a storm.
We headed back to our tents a little worse for wear and got even worse!
I was given some really nice cards, but avoided the bumps! It was a nice moment though. Thanks guys.
Sunday (My Birthday)
Morning broke and that was not all that was broke. . . .there were some sorry states on the camp site. Somehow Tilly managed to cook another fry up although I could only eat a bacon sarnie and one of Alex's Rennies!
Neil and Adam were straight on the Stella. I just went for another freezing cold shower. The Picks crew decided they were making their way home and we saw them off.
Adam and I had the great pleasure of playing the main courtyard on DIY's rig to look forward to in the afternoon.
I decided that 200 records was a stupid amount to drag around and settled on just taking one bag, not least as you had to climb a ladder to get to the DJ booth! We just about had the energy to do nothing at all until about 3:30 as we were due on at 4:00
We made our way down to the courtyard got sorted and then Adam took to the decks and played a blinder. Classic after classic of cool down/mid tempo tunes. All his Legends experience came to the fore and he quickly started filling up the dance floor. This was a musical departure from what had been played on that rig for most of the weekend, so it was always a slight concern of mine that they may not get it.. . . .but they did!
Then a little moment for Tilly. Adam very kindly let Tilly play the last tune of his set, before handing over to me. Tilly dropped Saturdays Angels - If.
We had been due to play until 6:30 and the festival close at 9PM, however due to a mistake on the paperwork it had to finish at 7PM, so the great honour fell to me of playing through to the end and closing the festival.
Adam had left me in the perfect place to just push it on a little and I played a blend of mid tempo Legends tunes such as Intergalactica and Sam Mollison, but also some classic style house like Kariya and Royal House. By this time it was pissing down outside and the Barn was in full swing with the Liberator techno heads and the DIY Crew joining in. Penultimate tune was Joe Smooth and you could hear people singing their hearts out down below. I faded it down and the place was going mental for "one more". . . .I dropped The Beloved - Sweet Harmony and I will never forget it. The whole barn was singing, arms above their heads, big smiles. My friends including Dave (with a huge grin on his face) were alongside me on the DJ gantry and it was a special Birthday moment I will never ever forget. Thanks to all for making it special!
We went back to the camp site in the relentless rain and had a bit more fun huddled in our tent! I had to drive so called it a day early, but Neil and Adam followed some tunes and ended up dancing in a teepee.
Monday
I woke feeling much better, which was good as I had a long drive ahead of me! Adam and Neil. . . .Oh dear!
Talk about walking wounded!
Well, we packed our belongings. . .said goodbye to Sonic 92 and Maria and went to thank the main two people of the festival.
Dave and Helen, what a great party you organised and all the months of planning paid off. I can't imagine the efforts it must have taken and everyone appreciates what you achieved. You are also two lovely people.
The End. . . .until next year!
We all ended up back at the tent for a chin wag and more drinkies then fell asleep only to be woken at 6 am in the morning by ben and scott having a two hour long convo about bean burgers 
