Dodge, welcome to your own show, mate.

It's, again, weird me having this side of the table when interviewing you.

But we wanted to sit down today and

talk about the 17th year of Bournemouth Sevens your festival yeah you know what an achievement

firstly to get it to 17 years in business so thank you mate congrats on that i know pretty surreal

really mate when you think we're coming up to two decades of, as a festival owner, and still

independently owned.

Crazy.

Like, yeah.

Yeah, it really is.

Just you and your wife at the start.

Yeah, yeah, it's just an idea sitting on a beach in 2008 and roll on 17 years later.

A lot of, a lot of ups and downs across the journey, but it's been a lot, a lot of fun.

There's probably a fair few people that do know what Sevens is,

but there's also probably quite a few people listening to this that don't know what Bomber Sevens is.

So if you could explain it briefly, what is Bournemouth Sevens Festival?

Well, it's actually people call it the Sporting Glastonbury,

which is a lovely compliment to have.

But it's a sport and music festival.

Now in 2008, when I come up the idea, there was just music festivals.

You just had your big ones, Josh.

You know, you had your Glastonbury's and you had your Isle Whites and you had your V Festival in Essex,

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