It was my first time to Taranaki. I was hoping the angry weather gods would have hangovers and forget to create cloud around the summit so I could get some great shots of the Audi Q5 S Line so very kindly loaned to me for the trip. The reason for going to Taranaki was to attend WOMAD. It seemed that while the weather gods were slumbering peacefully, the technical gremlin gods were all in attendance at Bowl of Brooklands.
Natacha Atlas almost had a tantrum and stormed off the stage, the world seemingly on her shoulders, after some minor sound problems. Fat Freddy’s Drop had to descend from the stage for five minutes while power was restored to the on-stage foldback monitors (the speakers the musicians use to hear themselves). Anika Moa’s lead vocals were so quiet they were almost extinct.All this was really quite unacceptable in a festival that already had a weak lineup of international acts. But this isn’t the forum to bash WOMAD (he says, looking for a different forum to bash WOMAD). The sun shone brightly, and best of all, I had the Q5 to look forward to on the return trip (especially the twisting Mt Messenger and Awakino Gorge roads).http://www.carandsuv.co.nz/articles/audi-q5-3-0-s-line-2009-road-test
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