Solas

Solas 2014: Common Ground

There's no doubt about it: Solas is currently my favourite festival.

This year's highlights:

• Film: Bridge Rising, a documentary that on the surface is about the Skye bridge tolls, but underneath is a searing critique of PFI
• Music: Jo Mango, Marit and Rona, Stanley Odd, Genesee
• Ideas: Andy Wightman and Lesley Riddoch
• Comedy: Josie Long
• Food: Aye Coffee's ridiculously delicious "luxury muffins"
• Encounters: a long chat with Alastair McIntosh who we'd last seen on Iona
• Friends: too many to enumerate, old and new

Above all that though was the feel of the place. This was a wonderful weekend, and well worth the rather long journey from the far south of England. Roll on next year.