The Wildhearts

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?

Nice one!!

Did you catch Backyard Babies?

Glad it was good - hopefully some converts were made.

Yes Col, caught BYB and they were pretty damn good as well. As were Cathedral, who I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. Soulfly were alright but seeing them in a field with thousands there as opposed to a smaller place just seemed a big wrong. Strange I know. Started watching InMe, thought they were wank, went for a burger instead. Oh, and the band whose name I've forgotten who Will Smith's missus sings with were ok in a nu-metally kinda way. Saw bits and bobs of a couple of other bands but nothing that sticks out as being particularly memorable. Ginger was the reason for going, and it was well worth it.

It's my dream line up, BYB and GATSC.

Thanks for the review.

All we need now are some pics

There were plenty of people with cameras. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them!

Still waiting for some "official" photos on the Download site...Finger on the pulse huh guys ?

Can we Download the review? Badoom doom chsssshhhhh



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Fine.