Festivals across England are having a blast with this onslaught of sunshine - and Truck Festival in bucolic Oxfordshire has been the ideal place to soak up the rays, music and chilled atmosphere.
This year the festival celebrated its sixteenth birthday with more stages, more food and more fun to be had, again to a sell-out crowd. Swedish garage rock band, Royal Republic, proclaimed, "We had a kick-ass time in sunny Great Britain at Truck Festival!"
Truck's famed eccentricity was evident throughout. An unexpectedly wild west experience included sitting on a saddle in the Saloon Bar, listening to Oxford's very own rhythm and blues band, The Original Foot Spasm Band, while the unseated spilled over onto the veranda. Festival goers, dancing, stomping and singing along, drank the bar clean out of whisky.
And if the prairies aren't quite your thing, dance infused psych-rock band, the Horrors, ran the cocktail bar for an hour, and dance tunes belted out from other stages against the backdrop of a UFO that crashlanded on late Saturday afternoon.
Mixing old with the new, another rising Oxford star, Lewis Watson, brought his own flair to the festival, epitomising how far Truck has grown, and how Truck continues to bring the very best of the music scene together for this two-day boutique extravaganza.
Stalwart festival goer, Chris Thurgood, said, "It's a really great vibe this year, nice atmosphere, great weather. People are really getting in to the swing of things. Party on!"
Truck organiser, Cecelia Broadbent, echoed this, "Everyone from bands to people in the crowd is saying that Truck is back to what it should be; full of friendly people, enjoying life. We've had glorious weather, a real eclectic mix of music and a great crowd! It really could not have been better."
Published on 23 July 2013 by Ben Robinson
