On Saturday, I attended the Colchester Free Festival with a friend and some family.
When we arrived, our first port of call was the Spoken Word tent, which had poets and comedians. The poets all came from Colchester's two poetry groups: SKOPT (Some Kind Of Poetry Thing), who meet at SlackSpace and Colchester Poetry, who meet at 15 Queen Street.
When I arrived, I was blown away by the performances I saw, all of which had been put together in a really entertaining and thought provoking way.
What was even more pleasing to see, was the number of different people who turned up to an obscure corner of the Castle Park to enjoy poetry in its spoken form. I was impressed. Even when the rain plummeted to Earth, the atmosphere in the Spoken Word tent was electric and people were clearly enjoying what was on offer. In fact, the rain provided a strange sense of pathetic fallacy to the words which were being spoken.
Later, we ventured out and were pleasantly surprised by all sorts of activities and entertainment. The bandstand in the Upper Castle Park had been turned into a haven for techno dance music, while near the boating lake in the Lower Castle Park, there was an impressive stage set up with heavy metal and rock music, the CAMRA beer tent (I did enjoy a refreshing pint of Mersea Mud from the Mersea Island Brewery!) and loads of mad people dancing like there was no tomorrow. There was even a tent with free tea. This is my idea of Heaven!
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