I have been a regular attendee at Kendal Calling for a number of years now. One of the great joys of Kendal Calling is the sheer variety of artists and styles of music. Last year I was lucky enough to stumble upon a set by a BBC Introducing artist, Marina Josephina, that I thought was one of the best sets I got to see all festival (I’d love to be able to say it was planned and take some credit but I really can’t!) I thought, before this years Kendal Calling at the end of July
Firstly, I’m going to confess this is a not a verbatim transcription of the interview I was lucky enough to have with David Balfe. We talked for an hour and if I wrote down everything we talked about it would probably take me days to get it into some semblance of a proper interview and it would be so long my editor probably wouldn’t publish it. However, I’ve tried to distil it down, so it gets published, but I don’t think I’ve spent a more enjoyable hour, ever, talking to som