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Another day wasted on the meadow, at the best festival in the world, with expensive pizza and cheap beer.

- The Cold War Kids are about as interesting as watching plaster dry. If you think they're monotone and uninspired on CD, wait until you hear them live.

- Maximo Park in a small tent = great show. Bit hyperactive, but polished and very energetic.

- The Kooks were either jetlagged, doped up to their eyeballs or bored. The lead singer communicates through mumbling and I use the term "communicate" in the loosest sense. Seeing the screaming teenage fangirls on the big vidscreens was a nice bit of unintentional comedy.

- Interpol may look a weird, but they can do an entertaining show. The songs from their last CD were better than the new stuff.

- Incubus is fairly good, fairly fun and fairly forgettable. The most memorable part of their set was watching raindrops making pretty circles in my coffee. Well, actually it was Anna Molly, but that's because it's the only song they do that doesn't sound like it was written for an elevator soundtrack.

- Damien Rice is, in fact, some sort of robot. Halfway through the show his batteries ran out (and this is literal - he started slowing down, went into slow-mo, then just stopped) and when he was powered up again, he didn't boot properly and thought he was a rockstar of some sort. Also, the booze and cigarettes look silly. His slow numbers, like 9 Crimes and Coconut Skins, are still magical.

- Metallica and it's fandom are the reason God invented horrific car crashes. A two-hour show that made all the middle-aged metalheads all happy and nostalgic, but I was perfectly happy avoiding it like I would typhus.

- The Australian Pink Floyd Show, if you ignore the Aussie accents, is brilliant. I never saw a real PF concert and never will, I don't know their songs, but they had a wonderful, dreamy atmosphere. Superb craftsmanship.

- Tori Amos is completely, utterly, undeniably certifiable. She introduced herself, Ace Ventura-style, through her ass; she dry-humped her piano; her "songs" consisted of her spouting barely-intelligible teenage poetry while mashing the keyboard and holding her microphone stand like a bazooka; in short, what she really needs is a straightjacket and a good doctor. 'T was hilarious, though.

- Faithless did what it did every year: try to take over the crowd with reheated hits. Impressive as a display of demagogy, but not exactly gripping.

The Diana tribute sounds like it was better.

Or, Glastonbury for that matter

Dartzap wrote:The Diana tribute sounds like it was better.

Or, Glastonbury for that matter

We went on the weakest day. Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Amy Winecellar and others performed earlier in the weekend, but our schedules didn't permit it.

And it was still a whole lot of fun. The atmosphere was great, the weather held up mostly and even the stinkers were entertaining in their own way.

That's certainly surprising the number of Britlander bands were over there, heh.

I personally would have gone for the days when KC/FF were on, if only to hear a live version of I Predict A Riot and Take Me Out, heh

(It took me a sec to realise get the "Wineceller" reference *sighs* )

I couldn't resists. She was very, very drunk on stage, from the reports I heard. It took a good ten minutes before she would come on, yelled at her band, slurred speech...

And the number of Brits is because...well, did you happen to hear any good American music lately

And they're cheap to fly over, I guess. The Brits and Belgians were split pretty evenly, with a few other nationalities thrown in. A good mix all things considered.

And they're cheap to fly over

Fly them over?! Knowing British managers, they'd make them get the train

Dartzap wrote:

And they're cheap to fly over

Fly them over?! Knowing Brutish managers, they'd make them get the train

EasyJet can still be cheaper than a train ticket.

Having seen Tori Amos in concert, I have to agree she's a little loopy at times. I get the sense she's only saying about 1/3 of what's going through her mind so ends up sounding rather disconnected and nonsensical...then again when she says "rabbits go boingidy boing" and then sings a song about zebras it's just a little umm...eccentric...

What the fuck? Who the fuck would pay to see My Chemical Romance?

JLTucker wrote:What the fuck? Who the fuck would pay to see My Chemical Romance?

Historians wanting to see Crimean War uniforms?

JLTucker wrote:What the fuck? Who the fuck would pay to see My Chemical Romance?

I sure didn't. They were on Thursday, weren't they? That's where the filler material gets dumped.

I was quite sure you didn't, Bounty. I just do not see how anyone can like them. Well, except for the emo teenagers. (my brother for example).

I would have loved to see Incubus and Manson.

I would have loved to see Incubus and Manson.

I'm not a big fan of their material, but they did seem to really enjoy performing live, taking snapshots, talking to people in the front row. I was worried they were going to be emo pap with inflated egos, but all in all they were quite pleasant.

And it flatters them that they kept their audience enthusiastic all the way through the rain.

That's kinda funny actually, a friend of mine is dating the guy from My Chemical Romance. She's all gung-ho about supporting him, too. Though it's a little odd to see "Support ShadoW and My Chemical Romance!"

*shrug*

Bounty wrote:- Tori Amos is completely, utterly, undeniably certifiable. She introduced herself, Ace Ventura-style, through her ass; she dry-humped her piano; her "songs" consisted of her spouting barely-intelligible teenage poetry while mashing the keyboard and holding her microphone stand like a bazooka; in short, what she really needs is a straightjacket and a good doctor. 'T was hilarious, though.

But she does have such a cute ass.... I saw some clip of her running around in a thong and a tiny tshirt....

J wrote:Having seen Tori Amos in concert, I have to agree she's a little loopy at times. I get the sense she's only saying about 1/3 of what's going through her mind so ends up sounding rather disconnected and nonsensical...then again when she says "rabbits go boingidy boing" and then sings a song about zebras it's just a little umm...eccentric...

Well, that IS why she was the inspiration for Delirium in Sandman

Bounty wrote:- Tori Amos is completely, utterly, undeniably certifiable. She introduced herself, Ace Ventura-style, through her ass; she dry-humped her piano; her "songs" consisted of her spouting barely-intelligible teenage poetry while mashing the keyboard and holding her microphone stand like a bazooka; in short, what she really needs is a straightjacket and a good doctor. 'T was hilarious, though.

It's even better if you get seats in the first few rows, with the way she plays the piano you get a pretty good view between her legs while she grinds away on her piano bench. She's a bit loopy but I think she's cool, afterall she did hug me after a concert.