Trowbridge is one of those festivals where you can come away disappointed from the Main Stage, only to find a fantastic band playing in the bar. But, unlike Glastonbury, the site is small enough to make it worth hanging around to see if you like what you’re hearing, and if you don’t, to get to another gig in good time. After listening to Andy Fairweather Low on Sunday evening, we didn’t know what to expect from the Hard Travellers. The blurb in the programme sounded good – but they always do. So we decided to wait. And how we glad we were that we did!

Once in a while a band comes along that has a unique chemistry. The Hard Travelers is just such a band. Each member is an artist in his own right, but together they created a performance that was extraordinary in its power, virtuosity and creativity. It’s impossible to pick out a performance that towers over the others. Whether it was Dave Sharp’s raw driving sound on vocals, Henry McCullough’s amazing guitar break, enhanced by Gary Fletcher’s contributions on bass guitar, Zoot Money’s dazzling keyboard-playing with the occasional vocal, or the drumming from co-founder of the British Blues Quintet, Colin Allen, five unique talents came together to create a wall of astonishing sound that for me was simply the best act of the festival.