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Dress up Saturday – good effort Larmer Tree!Larmer Tree Festival 2010 reviewWednesday 28th July 2010 We begin our day with a fry up at the tent and have a bit of a slow start to the day. We do make it into the Big Top for a Bollywood Dancing workshop though. The class is brilliantly led and although we're all over the place and generally a bit crap, we're in good company! Another wander around the Lost Wood and we decide to try out the Woodland Crafts area. Our boy wants to make a magic wand for his Harry Potter costume he's wearing later. The instruction is really good and we're left feeling pretty confident about our nippers carefully using some pretty sharp tools to make mobiles, wands and other bits and bobs. Hanging from the trees above our work space are some beautifully carved dragonflies. The attention to detail around the Lost Wood makes it a special and stunning place to spend time. Origami flowers are stuck into the ground and look like they belong, hand made fairies with children's wishes hang from the trees and bird shaped mirrors reflect light into dark corners. 'Folk in a Box' allows a person to squeeze into a tight space with one of the weekends performers for a one on one show – a great idea!
On another wander we settle in front of Wandering Ska. A ska band on the move around the festival playing loads of great ska tunes (I think the clue's in the name there), with a mobile amp and a great set of lungs. Another crowd pleaser is the guys in The Dukes Box. A tiny caravan (if you can call it that). It's been fashioned into a jukebox with a 4 piece band squeezed in. We hear them play a brilliant cover of Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing In The Name Of'. What a great idea! Back at the main stage we get chatting to some new friends and enjoy Tunng and a beer. Their set comes to a close with the brilliant 'Bullets'. The electronic effect left running as they leave the stage. Next up are Cornershop. I thought I would only recognise 'Brim Full of Asha' but a few of their tracks seem familiar. They don't really seem to get going but it' pleasant enough. The Uplifter is in the programme as reggae beats but when we arrive, although it's uplifting, I think we've missed him and instead find Smertin and Yoshi on the decks playing a real cross section of dancey genres. The tunes seem pretty good but it's rammed, hot and sweaty. We stay for a while and decide to get out for some fresh air. Back outside, we find a guerrilla movement banging drums, beating bins and shaking maracas. Basically, anything that will make a noise is being used to do so! We join in with our limited percussive talents and finally hit the hay in the early hours.  review by James Tayler photos by Andy Pitt 
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