V2010 Day One - a BlackLOG pictorial

I don't know what it is but sorting and loading the pictures seems to take far longer than putting words onto a page. Once again it proved fairly easy to get The Beast into the VFestival, although it took even longer than last year to get through security. Almost an hour to move about 30 meters, very frustrating and resulted in us missing 'The Pretty Reckless' and 'Daisey Dares'.

Joe, Mrs B, yours truely and The Beast

Picture courtesy of Mini Beast and Kirsty

bum fluff courtesy of Joe....

The Music

The Magic Numbers
The result of the security delay was that the opening group for us were The Magic Numbers. They were OK but for some reason I got it into my head that they did the song "3 is the magic number"  since they didn't and didn't even have the good grace to do a cover version of it,  I soon discovered I didn't really know any of their songs. Plus they can best be described as quantity rather than quality....

Romeo Stodart

"Forever Lost"

I'm not sure exactly how you could misplace him?

Michele Stodart

"Close your eyes"

Looks like Michele took the song title to heart... 

  

The Divine Comedy

I quite like Mr Hannons clever lyrics but it was never going to set the festival a light, more suitable to a cosy gig somewhere...

Neil Hannon

"Gin Soaked Boy"

Well cerainly a wine drenched man....

Paloma Faith

At last things started to pick up, great singing and she had a good sense of humour as well 

V good Miss Paloma.

“Does anyone here like David Guetta?

Are you going to watch him later?

I'm not a big fan myself but …

I have done this cover though which

I think you will find is rather good….”

You tell them girl....

"Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?"

I do hope she's not calling me too honest....

Parlotones

A bit of a find this lot, I can even forgive them for being South African (It's not my fault, I can blame the Spitting Image song -"Never met a nice South African" for this totally unfair and unjustified statement - sorry Dirk......what can I say,  I'm obviously a product of the songs I listen to...) - I particularly love the shapes that the lead singer Paul Hogson throws while performing.

Paul Hogson - Lead singer

"Bird in Flight"

Looks like he is winging it to me...

Sorry, could not resist...

 I'll get my coat....

"Brighter Side of Hell"

Looks like they have rabbits...I bet they bite....

"Overexposed"

Damn and I thought it was

a good attempt at a silhouette

Rock.Paper.Scissors

I think he's cheating....

Lissie

Great voice but walked a very thin line between proper music and that country rubbish....

Sorry, I forgot that BlackLOG does not
like the country numbers... 

"Why You Runnin'?"

To be brutally honest Lissie it's your hairy

armpits, they aren’t that beautiful.

Paloma I've decided

I would like to opt for the beautiful....  

Yes Kirsty when a singer comes on stage and says

"Howdy y'all"

 there is a pretty good chance that she is an American... 

This is Lissies lead guitarist, although it looks like

he has escaped from the set of 'Beauty and the Beast'

Scouting for Girls

I don't care that they are a bit poppy and uncool, they are great fun to watch....

Roy Stride wants you to give him the clap.....

I think Greg Churchouse  may have

spotted one of those girls....

Paul Weller

We came in part way through his set and so did not get that close to the stage. I'm not convinced by all the accolades that he is getting at the moment, he’s a good song writer and performer but he’s certainly no Millie Vanillie….

He did play the Jam song  "Start" which

 was the highlight of his performance for me.

Stereophonics

The best of times - they were fantastic, the performance of the day 

The worst of times - we had to miss Florence and the Machine  which was on at the same time....

We got caught in the middle of a beer (or possibly worse....) throwing battle. Why do people do this, pay a fortune for a drink then chuck half of it.....at one point Mrs B seemed to become a magnet for incoming missiles. It was at this point we witnessed :-

Two miracles before the inevitable.

One inbound cup was heading straight for Mrs B’s head….Suddenly this hand shot out and grabbed it inches from her petrified little face….didn’t even spill a drop until Mrs B's saviour chucked it back in the direction that it came from (No doubt to land on some other innocent festival goers head)….He got a standing ovation from everyone around.

Seconds later another cup was heading for Mrs B’s head, another guy tried to do the same only he failed to catch it and diverted it onto himself….Where was her faithful husband during this time, he was still laughing his head off at the first attempt on Mrs B’s dryness…

No one attempted to stop the third cup and so Mrs B finally, like a scene out of Final Destination, got the drenching that had been coming her way……

I myself was hit on the nose by something hot, I was about to scream like a little girl, I thought it was a lit cigarette that was attached to my nose. Fortunately before I could embarrass myself I discovered it was a bit of hot chicken – not exactly pleasant but at least I was not going to be scarred for life….For the record, no I didn’t eat it, it looked a bit over done for my taste…..

Kelly Jones

"Something In The Way"

Lucky for Mrs B

"I miss You Now"

It sounds like it was Mr Jones who was

throwing his beer at Mrs B....

"Oi!, Kelly stop it..."

Kings of Leon

For me the disappointment of the day - they may have been the Saturday headline act but their performance just seemed half hearted.... We must have been in the minority though, as we tried to force

our way out the crowd, it seemed to get thicker and thicker and seemed to go on forever....

At one point I got stopped by someone :-

Slightly drunk audience member:  "What's wrong with you, why are you leaving?"

Me :- "To be honest I don't rate them, live"

Slightly drunk audience member:  "So why did you come to see them then?"

Me :- "I like to make my own mind up about things, besides Paloma Faith told me that David Guetta (who was appearing on the other stage at the same time) is rubbish...." 

I think the irony of my statement escaped him but he eventually stumbled out of our way...

"Caleb Followill (vocals, rhythm guitar),

"Sex on Fire"  - "I don't think so,

I thought it was barely smouldering ...."

Nathan Followill (drums, percussion, vocals),

"Wasted Time"

Tell me about it - 20 minuets listening and almost half an

hour trying to fight our way out through the crowd....

A record of the week

It was only ever going to be festival tunes

Paloma Faith - Do You Want The Truth or Something Beautiful

Stereophonics - She's Alright

The Parlotones - Beautiful

Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

Scouting For Girls - She's So Lovely 

Photo Finish

He was warned to be careful as the Sunflower  shampoo

was a little stronger than his normal brand....

It probably seemed like a good idea at the time....

I wish Kirsty would stop forcing 

her ear onto poor Joe's tongue... 

Proof there is a Loch Ness Monster, only

 it's now living in Chelmsford....

Oh no, mime artists, we better call

in the pest exterminators…

Damn too late they're breeding.....

Looks like they may have turned up at the

wrong event..Guys Wimbledon is in June

Go on take our picture.... 

One of the girls asked me which TV channel it

would be on...Doh, it's not a video camera ....

The Beast shows off his Picture in Picture

functionality. I didn't even know he

 had that feature....

Despite our best efforts Joe and I could not convince

Kirsty that it looked good and she should buy it...

She's not as daft as she looks.... 

Mrs B at the end of a long but

fantastic day.....

And that was just day one, tune in next week for day two, where the weather turns and I have a bit of a run in with the head of security