Coordinates: 51°14′42″N 0°33′59″W / 51.24500°N 0.56639°W / 51.24500; -0.56639
GuilFest, formerly the Guildford Festival of Folk and Blues, was a music festival held in Stoke Park, Guildford, England, each July. The festival, like the larger Glastonbury Festival, features a range of genres including rock, folk, blues, and in recent years pop. In 2006 GuilFest was awarded the title of "Best Family Festival" in the UK Festival awards.
The event was started in 1992 by Tony Scott a Guildford businessman who is a keen festival-goer. From 1992 to 1994 it was a one-day event. In 1995 it became a two-day event with onsite camping and was moved to nearby Loseley Park. GuilFest returned to Stoke Park in 1996 and became a three-day festival in 1997 with headliners Jethro Tull.
1998 acts included Space, Shed Seven and The Lightning Seeds, The Levellers.
1999 acts included James, The Saw Doctors and Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
2000 was Van Morrison, Joan Armatrading, David Gray, Culture Club, Motörhead and Rolf Harris.
Your mind's a blur, it never calms.
You search in vain for the eye of the storm.
Ears strain for each word you say.
You never know in the dark where the words form.
Can you feel me pounding on your heart?
Fists of clay are of little use but my words will do
their part.
The insects crawled across your heart so very long ago.
No one recalls the day it snapped, nobody seems to know.
Something inside your chest grew hard and worked to stop
the flow.
If thy hand offend thee, make a fist, but you treasure it
in vain.
If thy eye offend thee - better still, you'll always look
again.
Just don't pretend the pain you feel will ever come to an
end.
Can you feel me pounding on your heart?
Words may be of little use, but my hands will do their