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"The camping fields and toilets and food tents were gloriously relaxed, with quietly stylish people wallowing in the music and the site-wide aesthetic, which was earthy without the mungbeans, hippy without the terrible trousers, and radical without the droning egotism."
How does he know about my trousers?
Never heard of Optimo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ1x8eV6SdQ
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Optimo are a Scottish institution mate
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Never heard of optimo? Have a dig around they have been going for years, did a great essential mix years ago which only this week got mentioned in a piece in the Guardian on the 100 most important BBC recordings. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/06/the-100-greatest-bbc-music-performances-ranked?fbclid=IwAR0_J61s-JlMov_2F4qH0UQWtCFteC712hHHYLaGLRiV-yxOnvrgBW3szIs
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dancing james
It was a festival put on by Optimo from Glasgow with help from the Ransom Note crew. They know how to throw a party - so I bought tickets blind before they even announced the line up.
As such I knew less than 1/3 of the acts but I trust JD and Keith and they didn’t let us down. Only 500 people, two stages and one more little sound system run from a caravan.
https://www.watchingtrees.com/
It was clear it was a line up the optimo boys wanted to see, as they checked out all the artists and were also busy running around helping with everything from running the gate to litter picking. It was only down the road, have already volunteered to help with next years event.