ABERYSTWYTH - The Square Festival
FRIDAY 24th July 2009 

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The Square Festival, not in Aberystwyth, but a few miles further north in the quaint seaside town of Borth on Cardigan Bay. Early downpours and the bus getting stuck on a hairpin don't deter us from having a great day wandering around Borth beach, sampling sausage baguettes and watching the Office on the tour bus. The sun bursts forth in the afternoon and the 'Square' crowd give it loads as we play to a beautiful mid Wales sunset. 
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Beware the festival leopard

 Stone a leopard, you're having a giraffe. More wildcats of Borth Kids welcome at the Animalarium
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Raccoons are rampant throughout this area of mid Wales. The only distraction for local teenagers from stoning leopards. Classic arcade action from a time before all that Space Invaders rubbish A wee bit Wicker Man, wooden cat in somebody's front garden, Borth
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Vauxhall Viva. Lamb and Leek curry on offer at the local chip shop Train spotters note: Cambrian Line level crossing between festival and beach The beach at high tide, all evidence of the ancient submerged forest and the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod is just hearsay at this time of day. Parts of Snowdonia just visible on the horizon
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McVicar- "St. Matthew's Church, 1879" Wales' oldest working tractor turns up to tow the trailer to the stage   Still no sign of that forest An escaped corn snake, lurking by the railway lines.
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Gavin attempts to photograph an ant's disco as the crew recover from a huge fish&chips dinner on the beach

Images © 2009 M. Quinn