That was it for the side until the August Bank Holiday weekend (Sat 27/Sun 28) when there was another Towersey appearance. This consisted of a number of spots on the ‘Market Place’ outdoor stage, and a Saturday lunchtime ceilidh spot. All of the dancing seemed to go very well, a particular highlight being 2 sets for Jolly Jockey Sticks in competition with each other to drop the fewer sticks. To help things along, the crowd in the small grandstand on one side of the stage had been encouraged to cheer for one set, the crowd on the other side for the other set, and bizarrely this resulted in much cheering all the way through. The weekend though suffered throughout from intermittent showers, something which miraculously we normally manage to avoid, but we were well and truly caught out during out last dance on the Saturday. As we assembled for Knees Up, dark clouds were heading towards the site at a vast rate of knots, but our announcer optimistically told the audience the clouds would part and move either side of the stage when they reached us. Foolish boy – just a few seconds after we had started, down came the hardest rain of the weekend, causing much of the crowd to flee to shelter. Some hardy souls though stayed, and we gamely carried on with and finished the dance – completely drenched.
