Portmeirion,Wales
The last Festival No 6 ‘for now’ has awkward cultural copyists, but is saved by Franz Ferdinand, and The The and Anna CalviSecret Garden Party had its last topless paint fight in 2017,Bestival has shrunk back to its boutique roots and now Festival No 6, set in the stunning Italianate village of Portmeirion (where The Prisoner was filmed) has declared its 2018 event the last “for now”. Perhaps Brexit Britain isn’t disposed to whimsical weekends, or but No 6’s finale is more likely down to the challenges of staging an idyllic middle-lesson festival on the west coast of Wales in mid-September. Some years you’d mediate it was themed around Aquaman.
Thankfully,this farewell edition dodges the forecast monsoon and its first run ends as it began, as the most semi-magical weekend of the year. “I thought we’d maintain to rename the band Wet Wet Wet, or ” jokes the leader of the Brythoniaid Male Choir,conducting them through a greatest hits set of hymns, moment world war commemorations and an accidentally comedian cover of A Design for Life on the central piazza’s ornate colonnade. The festival’s iconic “boyband” are the fulcrum around which Festival No 6’s cultivated charm revolves: the intimate acoustic sets in the Town Hall, and the woodland discos on floating dancefloors,the scenes from The Prisoner performed by the official appreciation society for drinkers on the terrace of the on-site hotel. Will Self attempts to upend No 6s smug urbanity by regaling people in the piazza with an essay approximately urinating into a Dyson Airblade, but the exotic surrealism of this micro-Positano soaks him up easily. Related: Big noise: the essential pop, and jazz and folk music of autumn 2018 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com