OFF: Summer '07 festivals

[Keith Henderson]

Hi Folx...
   
  I writing from Koeln (Cologne) on my first week of my Summer '07 Euro-festival tour, basically repeating the fun I had back in '05.  Tomorrow the music begins with old Krautrockers Holederlin here in Koeln, then off to Hawkfest in Nottinghamgebiet.
   
  Hope to see a bunch of you here and there, if not at Hawkfest itself.  Hopefully they'll let me in, as my HW passport is still in storage in Switzerland I do believe.
   
  I plan to get to as many cool festivals as I can this summer.  Sadly, I probably won't make Eastern Haze again, as they seem determined to hold it on the very same weekend as Burg Herzberg in central Germany.  It's difficult to decide which one to go to, but I have to choose the one here in DE, as it's just a nicer place to be in.  :)
   
  Just for kicks, I checked out the lineup for Glasters this year...I have to say, there's not very much there that would interest me going in.  Millions of names, but a ton of crud I've never heard of...maybe a lot of cool discoveries, but it would take time just to sample bits and pieces to find the right one at the moment.  Only Kava Kava, Ozrics, Rodrigo y Gabriela and the Who were names that sparked any interest up front. Eastern Haze has three times as much with three times fewer acts.
   
  So...thanks to some help/advice from you folks, I'm travelling now with my MP3 player this time and 1,460 songs (how many cassettes would that have been?).  I got a standard iPod nano (8GB) in the end, because I had to rely on other people's computers to do the ripping and transferring of tunes, and those people already had iPods.  So far it's going well, though for some strange reason certain songs sound more distorted than others at the same volume.  (only very few songs are noticably distorted, I mean).  I think it's probably because I'm using a cheap set of earphones and not the iPod ones themselves, but those didn't come with a case to wind them up in, which I prefer to do (otherwise they get knotted).  I'll have to see if I can swap them.
   
  Now I have to find out where to pick up one of these Solio solar chargers, so I don't have to pay for electricity on the road.  I haven't seen one in the stores here...are they available in the UK (Nottingham for example?).  I didn't get an outlet power device with my iPod, as those are now just sold separately (?), so I'm going to buy one today here in Koeln (with a German plug) so I can charge it up that way to start.  I don't have a laptop with me or anything...my pack is heavy enough as it is.
   
  Well, nice to hear from Mary B. again (I met you and Chris at Bill S.' in Yonkers ca. '95).  Hope to see many others on the road this summer...ciao.
   
  Grakkl

       
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