To the Hillswick Hall (just across the road from The Radiocroft) for the local outpouring of Shetland Folk Festival activity. A fine night too, bright and calm. The hall was absolutely packed – most events at the festival sell out quickly – and a good night was had by all. I was particularly impressed by Lissa Schneckenburger from Vermont and her band (featuring Crooked Still’s Corey DiMario on bass) and by the astonishing, not say bonkers guitar playing of Andy McKee from Kansas (pictured). Corey’s comments about ‘people in Shetland not having phones’ met with good natured forbearance at the sublime ignorance of visiting Americans. I could have shouted out something like: ‘A national network radio programme is broadcast using digital telephony from that run-down cottage across the road, you idiot’ but didn’t. However, it does seem that British Telecom want to get rid of our remaining telephone boxes, as we’re all so mobile-ridden these days. A shame. This is the one on the seafront at Hillswick. Pure ‘Local Hero’.
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