As threatened the much delayed V-Fest post - as with previous years the post has been split into the two days :-
Saturday - August 18th - with this year's summer the wettest recorded in the UK for 100 years and with the days preceding wetter than an otter's pocket, it was with some relief that day one turned out to be scorchio, with nothing but blue skies and sweltering heat.
Once again we were joined for the first day by our friends Kirsty and Joe (being young they don't seem to have the stamina to get through two days... and even worse, just because they are getting married a week after next year's V-Fest they have decided they can't make it at all next year ....How light weight is that....?).
Personally I felt it wasn't as strong a line-up as in previous years - certainly in depth. This however provided a bonus in that studying the clash sheet allowed me to organise the day around the two main stages - without feeling I was missing very much.......For me, the only viewing casualties on the Saturday were The Ting Tings and Friendly Fires..... Having just two areas allowed me to work my way forward through the crowd while Mrs B could stay back a bit, avoiding any crushing and being splattered by any plastic cups of suspiciously warm liquid...... I have heard that it is meant to be good for your hair but since I neither have enough of it to worry about (hair) nor the inclination to find out (Suspicious warm liquid) I try and avoid it when I can - .....
The Twang - 4 Music Stage
A good start to proceedings
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| Martin Saunders "Push the Ghost" from " Love It When I Feel Like This |
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| Phil Etheridge |
Inspiral Carpets - 4 Music Stage
I remember them as being good from the 80's but they seemed to have forgotten how to sing in tune - a very unimpressed Mrs B started making noises about perhaps just going for a single day next year - Thanks Inspirals - very un-inspirational.... |
| Stephen Holt - Lead singer "Dragging me Down" They were certainly dragging Mrs B down.... |
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| Marin Walsh Bass Player "Find Out Why?" They are still going....... Harsh but fair..... |
Reverend and the Makers - 4 Music Stage
Things got a little bit back on track, despite Mrs B not being familiar with the Reverend and his brand of work. They were at least tuneful and capable of hitting the right notes....
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| Lead Singer Ian "The Reverend " McClure "The End" It certainly looks like The Reverend just had the Bass guitar rammed where the sun don't shine |
The Charlatans - 4 Music Stage
They have been around for ages but this was the first time I have caught them live....Quite impressed
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| Tim Burgess - Lead Singer "How High " from "Tellin' Stories" |
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| "You're So Pretty - We're So Pretty" Well thanks very much but I think you mean Mrs B |
Keane - Virgin Media Stage
Despite already seeing them earlier in the year, one of the highlights of the day...
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| Tom Chaplin - lead singer "Can't stop now" |
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| Jesse Quin - Bass "Run with me" |
Example - Virgin Media Stage
In truth we only stayed to watch him as we didn't want to lose our place for Noel Gallagher but he was a lot better than I had expected...
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| E.G. Exempli Gratia |
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| Elliot Gleave "The Evolution of Man" |
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Virgin Media Stage
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| This one is for My Brother.... "If I had a Gun....." I can only assume Liam was in the audience.... |
Stone Roses - Virgin Media Stage
Mrs B was not a fan - so it made for an early exit - after all I want to come back next year....
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| Ian Brown - Lead Singer 2 albums in 29 years - you can hardly accuse them of a being prolific band .... |
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| Mani "She Bangs the Drums" what's an extra s between friends??? |
Faces in the crowd
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| You just know that this guy is going to be a complete knob.... |
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| This year V-Festival launched a new service "Dump your useless partner" Fortunately for me Mrs B didn't see it.... |
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| Chelmsford - be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.. |
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| Even the Cookie Monster needs a break.... |
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| The Sweat Gun 99.9% of all known beads of sweat |
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| As the drugs kicked in so did the paranoia and Herbert found himself having to watch his back... |
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| This poor bloke was invisibly Crucified for taking more than his alcohol allowance... |
Tune in next time for day two of this years V-fest.... |
| With the recession starting to bite this year’s fashion appears to be to burn an impression of clothes onto your body.... Painful but certainly cheap....  have never heard the lyrics before, proved very popular again this year... Sung very loud in a very slurred voice "Err, somefin, somefin, somefin will always , somefin, somefin, somefin" |
You sure do get to see a lot of very cool concerts. I have a confession to make. I've never ever been to a concert. Not even a tiny one. I've seen my friends' band play a few times, but those events could hardly be called a concert. Can we still be friends?
ReplyDeleteAlso, is that man really wearing what I think he is wearing? I feel like it is a trick and if I say what I think it is you will reply, "No, sicko, it's a flashlight." Wow.
L-Kat said
ReplyDeleteYou sure do get to see a lot of very cool concerts. I have a confession to make. I've never ever been to a concert. Not even a tiny one. I've seen my friends' band play a few times, but those events could hardly be called a concert. Your friends’ band sounds like a gig which is just a small concert – besides knowing someone in a band, even if it is a rubbish one is pretty cool . If you ever make it to England I will sort out a concert for you….
Can we still be friends?L-Kat since you are the only living soul who has bothered to read and indeed comment on the BlackLOG recently you have officially been awarded friend for life status….
Also, is that man really wearing what I think he is wearing? I feel like it is a trick and if I say what I think it is you will reply, "No, sicko, it's a flashlight." Wow.
No your filthy mind is not playing tricks on you, he is dressed as a male appendage (Clearly his name is Dick* – Big Dick to his freinds). Nothing that a giant hot dog role, lashings of mustard would not resolve ….. plus a lifetime or two in therapy to get over the sexual cannibalistic connotations of it all…..
* Not sure if Dick is used over in the states – just in case is isn’t people in the UK who are called Richard often have there name shortened to Dick (not entirely sure how exactly it is considered a shortening of the name Richard – you will just have to take my word for it that it is….) Dick is also one of the names used for Penis – again I have no idea the history of it all …. Much hilarity occurs in the UK when ever we come across some one called Dick – I guess at heart despite our great age we are just really a childish nation that never grew up…thankfully in my opinion we are at our worst when we try and take ourselves seriously….