Barenaked Ladies (1)

V2000 (Chelmsford) reviews

By Skye Hi | Published: Thu 24th Aug 2000

Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th August 2000
Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8WQ, England MAP
weekend around £75 (with camping)
Last updated: Thu 8th Aug 2013

The five members of the Toronto, Canada band marched onto the main stage in light blue trousers with lime green shirts - Yuk!

These guys have been around for a few years now, they have great voices with a heavy Canadian accent and play good fun rocky music with a hint of country and they love to joke around. They soon spotted Mandy the Cow, a large green cardboard cut-out in the audience, and launched into a song about screwing cows and sheep. Their antics on stage are very entertaining and a couple of times they threw off their instruments to perform silly dance routines. They also like to perform medleys of other peoples songs - I hate you so much right now, Lady in Red, 99 Red Balloons, Church of the Poisoned Mind, The song from Cats, Cher, Britney Spears, and the Bloodhound Gang (whom I suspect they rather like) all got lampooned much to the crowds pleasure.

Along with all the joking around they also played some tracks from their new album Maroon (out soon), and some well known tracks - "If I had a million dollars", which was a good sing along, "One Week", with the fast lyrics, and song about alcohol with a big rocky ending.


This band certainly put on a fun and lively show and really drew the crowd in so that the field was full by the end of the set.
review by: Skye Hi

photos by: Neil Greenway


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