What's your take on live music festivals? Full of posh influencers and corporate branding? Lots of agenda-pushing sponsorship? Well, there's none of that here! Welcome to something refreshingly independent as Jarek & Andy take you to the Something Else Tea Tent at Bearded Theory festival.

Join former-professional-nude-underwater-model Jarek Adams and current-karaoke-singer Andrew Thorn as they take to the stage at their very first live Art of Silly event, joined by six intrepid 'volunteers' engaging in challenging tasks that stretched their creativity in unusual, and sometimes mildly painful directions. Then because the sound desk ate our recording of the event, we have a smashing time chatting to all of the 'volunteers' about the music they make, and their experience of playing with us to demonstrate how a bit of silly can make the world a better place.

Plus: All New Serial - Lydia gets Norm into the mosh pit!

Happy camping :)

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Editor Andy's note:

FYI - we don't use AI for any of our stuff. No offence AI, but the point of this is to do it ourselves (plus you're way too young to have to go to work, bless your little digital socks).

I know people might think all the 'dashes' in these descriptions are a clue that AI has been used to write them, but they're actually there because I just think loads of dashes and hyphens is inexplicably funny for some reason - so I put them in everything.

Literally-absolutely-everything.

Even emoticons :-)

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Our Website -

https://artofsilly.com/

Facebook page -

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088695724374

Instagram -

https://www.instagram.com/jarekadams/

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Book recommendation - For those of you who want to do less silly magic...

Tricks and Magic (A Ladybird Book) by James Webster

Publisher: Ladybird Books Ltd, Loughborough, 1969

(Ladybird Learn about Series 634)

ISBN: 9780721402451

Available to read online at:

https://archive.org/details/tricks-and-magic/mode/2up

Where we went -

Bearded Theory Festival

https://beardedtheory.co.uk/

Something Else Festivals & Tea Tent

https://www.facebook.com/sefests

What we drank -

Mash Gang:

Taste Test 1: 'Journey Juice' Fruited Mango Pale Ale

Taste Test 2: 'Chug' Hazy IPA

https://mashgang.com/

Our brave 'volunteers' interviewed in this episode -

Will

(with brief interjection from next month's interviewee Kel)

Bands: 'Dog ‘Ole' and 'The Devil's Prefects'

https://www.facebook.com/ALoadOfOldDogOle

https://www.facebook.com/TheDevilsPrefects/

Wob

Band: 'Wob'

https://www.wobmusic.com/

Callum

Band: 'Nasty Fishmonger'

https://www.nastyfishmonger.com/

Editor Andy's note:

No volunteers were harmed in the making of this episode.

Sound Effects -

Festival background sounds:

'outdoor_party'

by freesound_community on pixabay

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/outdoor-party-35632/

Episode artwork -

'All our lovely interviewees'.

Back row: Callum, Wob, Andy

Middle row: Lizzie, Will, Jarek

Front row: Kel, Trotsky

Thanks everyone!