All the good stuff
Foo Fighters play secret gig - We got to V early, sorted ourselves out with a drink then sat and waited for Juliet and the Licks to perform and got treated to the unknown band 606. Turns out, it was actually an acoustic set by the Foo's. Awesome.
Paolo Nutini was a surprise for me, sure I'd heard some of his stuff on the radio but he put out a really good performance and I really enjoyed his stuff. Especially his covers of "I want to be like you" from the Jungle Book and Mobys' "Natural Blues".
Kayne West rocked, and I caught a video of him doing a sample of the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony
Snow Patrol were brilliant and even rolled out Martha Wainwright to do a duet of "Set the Fire to the 3rd Bar" and we watched the Kooks wrap up. They were pretty good, but it doesn't help when they play new stuff on the closing set of a festival.
All the bad stuff
I'm sick of the heavyweight commercialism of these events. With day tickets, like what we had, there was no re-admittance. Really? You think during a whole day I might not want to leave the venue to perhaps get a coat out of my car? Or in our situation, food so we wouldn't be forced to pay for overpriced crap, like burgers that'd been cooked this morning but now 'warming' on the side. As luck would have it, they had the Caribbean stall back and you know you're getting quality chicken rice and peas and goat curry there!
It seemed ridiculous, the queues for drinks. I was waiting in a 5 deep queue at the bar in the Cider House and the place seemed so disorganised, with most of the taps out of cider and the bar staff running around like headless chickens. After waiting half an hour, I gave up!
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