Stamina and sturdy boots got me through festival

As if you needed telling, festivals really are a young person’s game. To come out the other side in one piece at our age you need strength, stamina and a pair of sturdy, sensible boots.

- 

It also helps if it isn’t your first rodeo, that you experienced both sunbaked and rainsoaked festivals in your youth and dress accordingly. Like Billy Connolly said, there’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.

Which is how yours truly approached last Saturday at the excellent Neighbourhood Weekender festival in Warrington with five (count ‘em) layers of clothing, walking trousers and a pair of trusty walking boots, with two pairs of socks.

Oh, and a pair of Loop ear defenders after an unfortunate incident at a gig last autumn which was so loud my ears were still ringing a month later.

Luckily, a hearing test revealed no lasting damage.