Driftwood @ Herne Bay Fest

Driftwood played at the Herne Bay Festival today by the Rose Inn in the centre of town.

Audience got a little out of hand and eventually most of them joined us on stage for the last numbers....(a great improvement, IMHO Ed) 

Thank you to all who joined in and to Shorne Bedwell who jammed along on his African drum ... it kept Dave in time for once!

Thanks to the organisers and our marshalls for looking after us

Driftwood afloat!

Driftwood played on the most enjoyable and surreal gigs every - Afloat this time.

At the Bi-annual Hythe Venetian Fete on Weds 17th August. We were rowed (thank you Folkestone Rowing Club) up and down the Royal Military Canal in front of a few thousand people.

The first half was in the pouring rain and we had to improvise some acapella singing before could pull out the untuned instruments (well its folk!)

The pics are on Facebook and just wait for the roadie's video...

Driftwood @ Broadstairs Folk Week

Driftwood Folk Band decamped from Deal HQ to a camper van at the Broadstairs Folk Week campsite and not one incident of cabin fever!

 I fact it was a totally fav three days packed solid with performing and getting to other people's gigs.

We busked most of Monday and had gigs at the Bradshaw Mill on Tues and a packed finale at the Lord Nelson on the Weds.

Big thank you to Broadstairs Folk Week for inviting us . Hope to see you next year.

Driftwood @ The Green Berry

Driftwood played the Green Berry on Sat 25th June in honour of Chris Barnes getting his fourth CAMRA award in a row.

Chris is great supporter of real ale and real music in his pub in Canada Rd Walmer. 

Well done Chris and thanks to everyone at the Berry

Deal Folk Fest - Big Busk Sat 21st May

Driftwood Folk Band were again in action at the fundraiser organised by Mac Mckean at Deal Town Hall. The 'Big Busk' raised nearly £138 and had some 11 bands playing for six hours.

It was a great day with some great music. Driftwood thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Big thanks to Mac for the invite ... he is putting on again next week at the Chequers in Ash on the 30th May 8pm

Driftwood Folk Band @ Canterbury Climate Fair

Driftwood Folk Band had a great time at the Canterbury Climate and Fairtrade Fair on Saturday 14th May.

We did a set in the performers tent and then a quick busk for the roadie at the Deal With It stall.

There was a great flash mob later which Rose participated in see here

Thanks for Ray for inviting us and Canterbury Greenpeace

St Patrick's day (plus one) @ Saltwood

Driftwood were tooled up with hats (supplied by Deal's bona fide authentic son of the emerald Isle Mr. Adrian Sullivan - And he has the trousers to prove it) for the St Patrick's (plus one) celebration  at the Saltwood Social Club near Folkestone.

The band did two one hour sets and several encores at the end (well they would would n't they !?Ed) which included a lot of audience participation.

The night was raising money for Red Nose day and over £200 was made including our Roadie's donated winning from the 'Heads & Tails'.

A big driftwood thank you to Lee at the club for looking after us so well and all whose who travelled down to see us... All our photos are here

Driftwood Lite @ the Deal Zero Carbon Concert

Driftwood Lite (Rose & Sue) played the Deal Zero Carbon Concert on Sunday 28th Nov. Despite the snow there was nearly 300 people there and great atmosphere ...

Driftwood duo played the cafe area with the bicycle powered smoothie maker jamming with us! ...  Great sets from the Hoodeners, Old Lone Gin Band, Spyplane, Mac& Clive, Way Out, Ravenshill and Bottles who made it on to the main stage (without Dave!)

Roadie powering the Cocos Lovers

Well done the Roadie, Will & Kieran for organising a great day...






All photos are here > http://www.flickr.com/photos/43967078@N03/sets/72157625369995107/show

Scary Driftwood....

And they did not need makeup!

Driftwood played Halloween at the Rare Breeds Centre in Kent on Thursday and Saturday - A couple great evenings as we were playing in the departure lounge for the tractors taking people to get the bejeebers scared out of them in the woods ....

Some 800-1000 people had Driftwood with a very creepy Adrian O acting as the MC (think of a mix of funeral parlour meets Widow Twankie and you get the idea) inflicted on them [In my humble opinion the 'woods' were a relief to most of them Ed.!].


The set included all the greats like 'Bad Moon', a 'Drop of  Uggy's Blood' and 'What should we do with the Drunken Vampire'.... enough said.

Well done Adrian for doing all four nights.

The Rare Breeds Centre is fantastic and inspiring place. It gives people with a variety of needs a home and a real anchor in the community and its got some pretty amazing animals too! http://www.rarebreeds.org.uk/

Driftwood Video @ the Astor

Driftwood played the Astor Cellar sessions during the recent Deal Maritime Folk Festival - This Video is by Martin GoodSmith



Just in case you cannot see the Video here is the link http://youtu.be/wuRguEZywT8