I was lucky enough to perform at Wildheart Gathering at the beginning of this month. It’s a truly beautiful festival set amongst the most amazing grounds with lots of woods and fields nearby. Whilst there I took the opportunity to go for a wander with my guitar. I nervously crossed a field full of cows, keep a wide berth from them as I made my way to the woods on the other side of the field. The cows got bored of looking at me by the time I had past them and went back to eating their breakfast. In the woods, I set up my little camera and recorded a couple of videos. (Click on the little thumbnail image to play each video).
First, Postcard…
Then Motorway Song. There’s something really nice about recording a song outside as you get this lovely background accompaniment of birds singing, the wind blowing through the trees and the occasional plane flying overhead 
People pay alot of money to get these kind of effects in a studio! It all seemed to go so well with the natural shape of the songs too.
It was at this point that I looked around and noticed that the cows from the field next door had seemingly followed me and were wandering around in the little bit of the woods I was in! So, I made a hasty but dignified exit and ventured further into the woods, away from the cows to record a couple more songs.
Under the stairs… ( I look around towards the end of this video to see if the cows have followed me! – they hadn’t)
and finally, Hiding in the Garden, which seemed rather appropriate This has a great bit in the middle where a plane passes overhead during the instrumental bit, perfectly timed!
I think the cows did me a favour as these last two videos have so much more atmosphere provided by the surroundings on them.
Altogether a lovely way to spend a morning and I hope to go back there again and do some more next time.
There’s some more live videos from various gigs and adventures on the Sugardrum video page.
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