We’re catching up on our audio interviews … there’s more coming from Mr Giddings too.
There was something special about this years Isle of Wight Festival.
From the people we spoke to there, the feeling was the same, this years IW Festival just clicked.
For us it was the best Festival at Seaclose Park we’d been to.
On the Sunday we chatted to John Giddings about this and other bits.
His view was that it had “a magical atmosphere,” and that “crossing the water puts people in a relaxed frame of mind.”
As everyone who has been to the Island knows, this is definitely the case.
Clearly this rubs off on the artists, as John Giddings says, they’re “always more relaxed when I see them here, than at mainland festivals.”
IW Festival to stay the same size
If you were wondering if there were plans to make the IW Festival larger, it appears from our chat with him that there isn’t, “I don’t want to increase the capacity, because I think you’d lose the atmosphere and the nature of it. I just want to make it better for the audience every year.”
Have a little listen, there was loads more that we chatted about – if John gets to see the artists; which bits he liked the most; how it came about that Judy Collins played; … [audio:http://otw-audio.s3.amazonaws.com/john-giddings-iw-fesitval-09-interview.mp3]
