The set up of the site was as follows:
The Fayre sat comfortably on a hill in the beautiful rolling meadows and countryside of Somerset.
Up the hill in the centre and to the right were mainly tents and this felt like a wonderful colourful hippie community.
Up the top of the hill and down the left hand side were the caravans, wigwams, motor homes and campervans. It was a wonderful nomadic hippie gypsy nirvana.
At the bottom of the left hand side was the staff and volunteer camp and office caravan; a very busy area. And towards the bottom of the right hand side, where the hill flattened out, were tepees and fire-pits. This area offered massage, Tai chi and other therapies and any support people required.
In the centre at the bottom were more fire pits, a lit up fountain, a huge tree with lights and straw bales to sit on, a clothes shop, a pizza stall and a burger van. Here, there was also an amazing psychedelic art gallery tent which doubled up as a chill out zone.
Then there were the two main tents. The restaurant tent serving breakfast lunch and dinner (vegetarian) very good and at a nice price. This place also housed the bar and doubled up as another after party dance floor.
The biggest tent was the main dance floor and stage for the live music.
In this main tent Monkey Pilot (aka Richard Sutcliffe) took his place as Whirl-y-Gig’s famous DJ, to rapturous applause, his music has inspired me for many years, my early record collection was inspired by Richard: The Gypsy Kings, Penguin Cafe Orchestra and of course my favourite Transglobal Underground (who after all these years were performing at this very fayre). And now all these years later my music collection is almost completely based on the fantastic music Monkey Pilot plays at Whirl-y today. You will always be a hero to me Richard and don’t ever think otherwise. Needless to say his set throughout this Fayre was mind-blowing.
Monkey Pilot was joined on the stage by many guest live bands.
The guest bands were also amazing and we all danced like crazy people. The room was full of joy. The highlights of the night for me were the wonderful people, the incredible music and dancing and seeing my legends: Transglobal Underground!!
I danced all through their amazing set and was soaked through with sweat afterwards, they were awesome.