Ozora

Of all the stops on my festival Odyssey Ozora was the one I was least looking forward to. 8 days of militant psy-trance – a genre that I have never been a fan of and that I was going to have to tolerate entirely alone. I very nearly considered bailing on the whole thing. It was the first festival since my 2 and a half-week break and in that time I was taking great pleasure in wondering around foreign cities aimlessly, making new friends in hostels and trying and failing to chat up a series of Parisian women. All this…

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Nowhere 2016

I’d spent the traditionally crippling 5-day Glastonbury comedown preparing for my festival odyssey. It wasn’t that the usually demobilizing period was difficult or that it was hard to get myself orientated for my biggest adventure yet, just exhausting and flowing with waves of doubting anxiety. The night before I was due to fly out the same chain of thought kept oscillating in the carousel of my mind…   ‘Why am I doing this again? Why did I think an entire summer of festivals in foreign countries would be a good idea? Exactly how am going to get to middle of…

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