V festival is BEST festival

God bless V.

looking forward to seeing him supporting the charlatans tbh. probably wouldnt pay to see him at his own gig or a mondays one these days but should be great fun support act

When I see the mondays they tapped all the lyrics on massive bits of cardboard to the floor and he stood there and was so fucked he could barely move and everytime he couldn't get the words out just kept going 'fuuuck, fuuuuck' was total shit but still highly enjoyable.

aparently he's cleaned himself up now, got married, new teeth, the fucking lot. Charlatans/Ryder, old-skool double bill.

HAHAHHA

Fuck me the coverage looked awful, now the FUCK do Editors 1. play every major festival going every single fucking year & 2 always have their set shown on tv? They aren't that fucking big. Now I know he's fucking spastic-chin but she works for the BBC, they get on every fucking channel with festival coverage.

Also, why, why, why do TV producers insist on having such cuntish presenters for these festivals? Play 1 song, have welsh cunt from channel 4 interview a band and be a bit wacky, adverts, play another song, have that slag who alex turner is fucking try to be funny for 4 minutes, adverts.
Why even bother? Could just do a voiceover, 'tonight we bring kol, kasabian and eels' whatever. Do people really switch on to watch festival coverage to see Rufus Hound do something really WACKY like buying biffy clyro an ice cream?
Also, Scouting for girls did common people acoustic, I can never hear that song ever again now.

Started to understand just why KOL have got so big though, they looked so natural headlining V, amazing to think they looked completely out of their depth in 04 coming on before Oasis at Glastonbury, kinda remarkable to going from looking so sheepish and out of place to a natural stadium band in the space of 5 or so years.

TV really needs a real music program again, Jools Holland still occasionally gives us some good performances but it's far too commercial, far too many rubbish acts on major labels, I really don't need to hear Florence & The Machine perform new tracks from her new album, I'm sure it'll be shoved down my throat either way.

That nigel godrich from the basement series was pretty good but didn't last long enough, need another Old Grew Whistle test type of deal, who the fuck is gonna have the balls to put Shit Horse on TV?

yeah sad to think jools is the only live music show on terrestrial.

the late night ch4 stuff as well i suppose.

bring back the tube on friday nights.

Read this when I got in, think it was at Chelmsford wasn't it.

Anyway, I got back this afternoon. I will not be returning. I only went last year for Oasis so musically this year was better but it is a shit festival really.

First of all, the good points. Kings of Leon were absolutely fucking brilliant. I hadn't seen them live before and knew I would enjoy it bar the Only By The Night stuff and the people who don't know they have more than one album, but I was really really pleasantly surprised. They were on top form and you could tell they really enjoyed it. Even better and more surprisingly, the crowd knew the words to every song and it was like a mass sing along. I wasn't expecting that other than for the obvious songs. They have said since the gig that it was one of their best gigs they've done. People who have went to Chelmsford though have said the crowd for them was shit. The performance of the weekend for me.

Madness were also class. The crowd loved it, it was basically thousands of people dancing about like utter tits and signing along. I really enjoyed it, quality stuff. Faithless were good for a pissed up jump about. They got the crowd going and fired up before the headliners (The Prodigy for me, Kasabian for most). Stereophonics were good as well when they played the old stuff but far too many shite new songs which nobody knows or cares about. Paul Weller was decent enough although I was a little dissapointed like. He seemed a bit pissed off after somebody chucked a bottle onstage and he didn't really enjoy it. The crowd knew nowt but the obvious stuff and a couple of Jam songs.

Now the thing what really pissed me off was the crowd for The Prodigy. I'd just seen them put in one of the performances of their lives at Milton Keynes the other week but they weren't as good at V (to be expected really) but they were still good. The crowd was fucking shocking though. I expect a lot of people who like The Prodigy were attracted to the main stage to see Kasabian like. The majority of the crowd didn't seem to know 95% of the songs and they just stood there wondering what the rest of the crowd were doing going mental. I was expecting the crowd to be a lot better than that for them after the times I've seen them on tv at festivals. It was a V crowd though I suppose. I don't think the band would have enjoyed it much. I wish I had of seen Kasabian instead now because they were meant to have been brilliant and the crowd was meant to have been lively as well.

Other band points were I missed The Coral due to not being allowed to take cans into the arena so I decided I didn't want to waste 4 cans I also missed The Charlatans due to them clashing with KOL and Doves. I seen a bit of Eels but was far too pissed at that point (sobered up a bit later).

I also stood in a field drinking beer while Editors, Calvin Harris and Jamie T were on. I also seen some of Seasick Steve while eating a chicken wrap. Thats everyone I seen. Was gutted to miss Kasabian but didn't want to miss The Prodigy.

Away from the music everything was way overpriced. £3.70 a pint of pissy Carling, £8 for a pizza, £3 for a shit bag of chips, £5 for a bacon sarnie. Met some good people there, some funny people and some absolute knobheads. The amount of scousers there was unbearable. I couldn't believe it, it actually seemed like 1 in every 3 people were scouse and the accents were doing my bastard tits in. My tent was actually surrounded by them. I've nowt against scousers but the ones I met there in the majority came accross as right cunts.

A lass in the tent next to me got her tent robbed in the middle on the night while she was sleeping. £400, all of her cards and her driving license. She was scouse. Can you rob yourself?

Met a lad on the Sunday afternoon who told me he went in the toilets around 3am the night before and some lads followed him and pushed the toilet over while he was in it, resulting in him being covered in a toilet full of shit, piss and blood. I shouldn't really laugh It is one of the worst things that could happen to you. He ended up chucking £90 worth of clothes away.

All in all its a shit festival overall for music and as a festival. It was worth it for the good points and because I had a good weekend on the drink. I'll definitely not be going back bar a miracle of them pulling something amazing out of the bag in the future. Too many shit artists, too many arseholes, too commercial, too expensive considering you can't take your own drink into the arena, and too small really. Once the music ends and you have a few pints afterwards talking to random pissed people your nights over. Everything just stops.

Definitely gonna be Glastonbury next year I think unless I end up doing Benacissim but I think i might do that the year after.

If you want geordies Coleman, get yourself to Leeds. Fucking full of the cunts.

That's why Glasto is good, you can take in as much booze as you like n take in anywhere you like. Plus theres stuff going on 24/7

It was fucking stupid man, I was spending a fortune on food everyday then paying £3.70 a pint on top of that. Even at Glasto, I'd be happy to get ripped off for quite a few pints but not when you have to pay £3.70 all fucking day for a drink.

Forgot to mention, I couldn't fucking believe the Newcastle result, I was getting updates and everytime I shouted out in utter disbelief "yes fucking 4-0, 5-0, 6-0" people nearby were asking "eh, what, whos winning that much", "Newcastle", " FUCK OFF YOUR SHITTING ME, NO FUCKING WAY"

PAINTED 6-0 ON MY HEAD AND WALKED ROUND LIKE A TIT FOR 12 HOURS AFTER THAT RESULT