7th August 2010

On one afternoon every August, a secret corner of Bute Park in Cardiff, known as ‘Wormbley Arena’, comes alive with great unplugged music, piles of cake and reams of bunting.

This is Woodstick, a free mini-festival featuring the best unplugged music from Cardiff and beyond, and this year donations were invited for Cardiac Risk in the Young.

The audience were treated to the sounds of Ivan Moult, Hail! The Planes, Teflon Monkey, Joy of Sex, Threatmantics, The Loves and headlining was American indie legend Calvin Johnson, of seminal band Beat Happening.

In between bands, people could help themselves to all manner of cakes baked by volunteers, and partake in the awesome lucky dip. A brilliant £430 was raised on the day, and this is expected to increase to over £500 after an eBay auction of rare vinyl kindly donated by Cardiff-formed band Los Campesinos!

A massive well done and thank you to organisers Harri Davidson and Nicola Jones. They even managed to make sure that the sun shined!

Sian Regan