1/28/2024 0 Comments Shadow of doubt tribute band![]() Accessibility is effectively restricted to people whose legs worked efficiently, and that leaves a cohort of less able music fans stuck in tents and vans all weekend (or heading reluctantly home). But nature does its best, punishing all present with relentless yellow-warning rain that quickly reduces the site to (in the words of a friend) “yoghurt and muesli” thanks to the addition of endless barrows of woodchip to the swiftly rising mud. At four days total (Max Richter played with an orchestra and bonus Tilda Swinton on the Thursday evening), it’d take a lot to detract from what’s on offer. ![]() It’d be fairly easy to fill any Bluedot review with technology, maritime and space-based fare, but with a line-up like this one, we’d all end up missing out. Mind truly blown, and a singular experience complemented by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop live scoring a series of Who scenes elsewhere that same day. It also offers plenty of opportunities to highlight where science might meet music halfway, hence a terrific hour in the company of a room full of Delia Derbyshire nerds, forensically deconstructing the analogue tapes of the original Doctor Who theme on a copy of Logic projected onto the big screen. This means you can soothe your Sunday hangover with a 10am lecture about dark matter - and that’s exactly what we did. On top of a music programme that veers consistently left-of-centre (if not fully experi-mental), Bluedot naturally excels in pushing science to the front, along with a smattering of the comedy and literature many discerning festival punters now expect as standard. Since 2016 Bluedot has offered something truly unique, since it’s based on the Unesco World Heritage site that is Jodrell Bank Observatory, a few miles outside Macclesfield.
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