CelebrationFest: 12th June 2004 - The Write-Up The spirit once lived In all of our hearts, A spirit of freedom, dance, music and arts. Bill: Bop 'Til You Drop, Ciara, All You Miss, Flat Rabbit, Just Friends, Andensum, Bruce's Spider, Anomie, Dr. Brown, The One Eyed Bishops, Huw Lloyd Langton, Assassins of Silence Leaving the review in the capable and experienced hands of Nick Lee... "Lovely little festival yesterday at Bicester. We arrived in time to catch the last couple of songs of Andensum's set. Seen 'em couple of times before supporting the Assassins, suffice to say they're improving. Bruce's Spider were up next and provided a pretty entertaining set (though not necessarily for the right reasons!), it was very much unreconstructed Prog, musically pretty good but vocally fairly awful. Somewhat Spinal Tap, complete with cape-wearing keyboard player. Didn't hear too much of Anomie as I'd popped off for some supplies. Dr Brown played a very nice, laid-back, bluesy set, the first time I'd heard them for some years, the last being at Glastonbury (2000?). The One-Eyed Bishops carried on in a similar vein with some great blues standards. Huw's set was a blinder, easily better than any of his performances on the last Hawktour. He seemed very relaxed and put on a great show and was joined by the Assassins for his last number, Hurry On Sundown which segued into their set. A bit tight on time the Assassins played a very tight set. Joined by Ben, as at Hawkfest last year on wind and violin, they ploughed through Utopia, Brainstorm, Uncle Sam's On Mars amongst others finishing off with a wonderful version of High Rise (complete with some lovely violin) followed by Motorway City." Thanks especially to: Huw for playing and letting us play Hurry On Sundown with him (and to Marion for letting Huw out to play) Big Dave for finding Huw when we - ahem - misplaced him Colin Allen for recording the whole day Chantal for doing an excellent job of stage management And last but by no means least, Dave Adams without whom there would have been no festival at all