Saturday 7th September

Saw Jinrai who I'd seen before at the Moseley Festival - this time with much better sound quality. Also saw the Beach Bums (a Beach Boys) tribute band - unfortunately, as soon as they started playing, the heavens opened and most of the crowd disappeared!

The Door at the Rep was showing locally made short films - I particularly liked Time Travel by Alex Thompson, which showed speeded up footage of clouds and a townscape.

Plasticiens Volants staged a performace of fire and inflatables, featuring a light floating female creature and its encounter with a inflatable spider - I've no idea what the plot was, but it was certainly a spectacular. It was interesting to see the reaction of standard Broad St punters to the invasion of their space by the eclectic Arts Fest crowd plus 20 meter french inflatables.