Bit better ending to 2010 than last year!

The Maldon Folk Festival must be the most regular and repeated ritual in my life and her I am again in 2010.

A chance meeting with the Badges at Apollo Bay has now firmed into a friendship and I this year staying with them at their Maldon house.

•  Maldon Folk Festival 2010

Not necessarily my favourite festival but this year is my first Queenscliff Music Festival with the new director that seems to be breathing new life into this culturally tired Festival.

Mr Merls is with me again.  He takes one of my cameras and has quite a different view of the shots.  He this the ones I thing are disasters are the really great ones!

•  Queenscliff Music Festival 2010

 

UCI Road World Championships held in Geelong!

The real hilight of 2010 for me was the UCI Road World Championships held in Geelong late September to early October.

A lot of Geelong locals just didn't realise the significance of having this event in Australia and really grumbled about the inconvenience.

UCI Men's Race Map - Melbourne to Geelong 2010

I missed the time trials and womens road race which was disappointing, but the I went for Men's Road race on the Sunday.  The City was packed, there were many friends there and heaps of stalls and music.

UCI Men's Race - Melbourne to Geelong 2010 [Photo: Liam]

UCI Men's Race - Melbourne to Geelong 2010 [Photo: Liam]

I finally got to see John Mayall

On my 14th birthday my older brother's best friend gave me an album. He told me, 'it may not mean much now, but one day it will change your life.' And that's why I am here now in 2010 to see and meet John Mayall at the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine, 41 years later

• John Mayall at the Theatre Royal

Me and Mr Merls went to the 2010 Australian Blues Music Festival

I would like to go to a festival every year that I don't normally go to, but with my health and dialysis it can be so difficult to arrange that there is a point where you give up.

However Mr Merls and myself made a concerted effort and got ourselves to the 2010 Australian Blues Music Festival.  As a collection of acts it was great; as a festival it was quite a disappointment.

• Australian Blues Music Fest 2010

Apollo Bay Music Festival 2010, another one for me and Mr Merls

The Apollo Bay Music Festival is starting to become perrenial for us, the Badges and Mr Merls and myself.

However, the weather in 2010 certainly put a damper on it!

• Apollo Bay Music Festival 2010

Caught the end of the 2010 Ocean Grove Summer Festival

The Ocean Grove Summer Festival was on again in 2010, but without the Young Performers Stage, which I was disappointed about and felt missed the point about the objective of the Festival.

I must have turned up late because that's when the photos start.

Chubby Rae & The Elevators playing at the 2010 Ocean Grove Summer Festival
[Photo: Og Bear]

Craig playing with Chubby Rae & The Elevators at Ocean Grove
[Photo: Og Bear]

The crowd dancing to Chubby Rae & The Elevators
[Photo: Og Bear]