And so it was that a ginger haired man with dreadlocks and a rather snazzy new lip piercing met with his followers in a field which is usually full of people watching bikes go round and round in circles for no apparent reason.
After a day of wandering around the various stages being entertained (in the loosest possible sense), by the good, bad, and the downright fucking awful, the Myspace stage was the place to be. Not even the sunburn (for which I was told off by Vix earlier in the day) was going to stop me getting down to the front for this one.
Cue GTT...a bit of a new twist on this one as The Psycho Cyborgs came on and started drilling holes in each other while it was playing. Those guys just get stranger with every viewing. But not quite as strange as it was when the band came out to kick off Ugly, at which point the Cyborgs started nailing stuff into Ginger as well.
Like I said, a new twist, and one which points to a potentially lucrative circus career if he ever gets fed up of doing this music lark for a living.
The set was pretty much what we've come to expect, albeit an abridged version:
UGLY
YEAH YEAH YEAH
MY FRIEND THE ENEMY
DRINKING IN THE DAYTIME
DRUNKEN LORD OF EVERYTHING
ONLY A PROBLEM
SONIC SHAKE
TEN FLAWS DOWN
29 X THE PAIN
Don't quote me on the order, but that was the gist of it.
Not much chatter between songs, as the man himself said "We haven't got much time tonight, so I'm going to keep my bullshit to a minimum", but the fact is that when the songs and the performances are as good as G&TSC serve up, you don't need much in the way of chatter in between songs.
Sonic Shake got the pit going, and do you really need me to tell you what the atmosphere was like for 29x?
Why they were booked to play the Myspace stage, god knows. The tent seemed to be heaving, couldn't tell how far back the crowd went as I was pretty near the front, but there didn't seem to be a whole lot of breathing space and it took a while to get everyone out at the end.
Right...where did I put that bottle of aftersun?
