Sixth in this series of 10 minute montages - containing every act of the tenth edition of the Summer's End Progressive Rock Festival.

My thanks to Stephen and Huw for allowing me to continue to capture and compile these montages.

Held in Chepstow for the first time with the Friday night at the Palmer Centre and the Saturday/Sunday at Chepstow Comprehensive School. This year saw the first Acoustic sessions at Summer's End meaning that the weekend featured 18 acts in total.

Condensing this into just 10 minutes is, of course, a tough challenge and the way I only randomly capture a handful of short clips from each act (usually based on hearing something I like if I don't know the music or knowing that "a good bit" is coming up if I do) means that the clips I use quite possibly do not include what you might consider to be the "best bits" but they are what I consider to be the best and most representative selections I had.

In case anyone is remotely interested in how the time is divided up fairly, I allocate a "weighting" to each artist/band based on their billing; 1 for acoustic acts, 3 for the closing and special guest slots, 2 for the remainder. This gives a total of 35 "units".
Ten minutes = 600 seconds and that divided by 35 gives just over 17 seconds per unit. So the acoustic acts get approx 17 seconds, the closing acts get approx 51 seconds.
With that framework in mind I set about finding the clips I have that are most representative and trim them to roughly fit the timings while trying to bracket musical lines/phrases. This usually results in an overall first draft well over 10 minutes because there are too many good bits.
Some more ruthless trimming and tight cross-fades gets it down to 10 minutes. As a result of all this some acts might end up with slightly more or less than others but hopefully the balance remains reasonable.

Anyway, never mind that, enjoy!

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