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[Joshuwarr]

So yeah, as the topic says.

AMAZING:
Blur
Franz Ferdinand
The Horrors
Tony Benn (Not technically a band)

VERY GOOD:
Art Brut
The Specials
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Rakes
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Metronomy - even though they were cut off at the start of Radio Ladio
Bombay Bicycle Club

ALRIGHTISH:
Enter Shikari
Mr Hudson

POOR:
Madness - sorry, it just felt a bit effortless in my eyes.

[ollyh]

Damn! Was going to post this thread as well.

Gabrielle Cilmi-Average
Rumble Strips-Quite Good
Fleet Foxes-Good
White Lies (few songs)-Very Good
Lily Allen-Good
Doves-Brilliant

VV Brown-Average
Paolo Nutini-Quite Good
Rolf Harris-Good for what I heard of it
Kasabian-Brilliant
Bruce Springsteen-Brilliant

Boxer Rebellion-Good
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Very Good
Madness-Good
Bon Iver-Very Good
Glavegas-Very Good
Prodigy-Brilliant

So pleased with the headliners I saw, all three I thought were absolutely superb in their own way, so pretty good festival music wise.

[Joshuwarr]

Oh and the other message that I was going to put was that the trolley I posted about the other week, which everyone said wouldnt break, DIDN'T BREAK! It held 3 crates, food and my chair! However, it was stolen '

[Phil-itfc]

this has made me realize how few bands I saw!

The Rakes - good
f**ked up - awesome (should have had a higher slot)
filthy dukes - average
Dan Le sac v's scroobios pip - awesome
Specials - f**king awesome
Bloc Party - awesome

King blues - good
Dizzee Rascal - awful
Kasabian - good
Dj Yoda - banging
2Many DJ's - good

Madness - good
Blur - Amazing

[scappaflow]

Amazing
East 17!!!!! (Seminal performance, expect arena tour to be announced soon)
Blur
the Streets
the View
Franz
Lily
Rolf
Kasabian
Pete Doherty (total surprise turn of the weekend, just astounding from the man!)

Very Good
Bon Iver
Pendulum (only saw 10 mins, fcking insane tho!!)
Neil Young
Ladyhawke
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (thought it would be more mental)

Alrightish
Paolo Nutini (seen him a couple of times and just don't get him)
the Script (does that guy love himself?! Good laugh tho)
Maccabees
Regina Spektor

Poor
Nick Cave
Just Jack

[scappaflow]

My trolley held... 2 crates, 18 Litres of coke, spirits etc, big 4 man tent.

Also, 3 people borrowed it for return trips to the car park and I'm sure had similar amounts and it was still looking good.

Then someone nicked it!!

[1000yardstare]

Joshuwarr, on Jun 29 2009, 03:11 PM, said:

So yeah, as the topic says.

AMAZING:
Blur
Franz Ferdinand
The Horrors
Tony Benn (Not technically a band)

VERY GOOD:
Art Brut
The Specials
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Rakes
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Metronomy - even though they were cut off at the start of Radio Ladio
Bombay Bicycle Club

ALRIGHTISH:
Enter Shikari
Mr Hudson

POOR:
Madness - sorry, it just felt a bit effortless in my eyes.

Awesome,

Ray Davies
Nick Cave (even though the silly little Blur fans didnt appreciate him)
Echo & The Bunnymen
Madness
Badly Drawn Boy
The Egg


Very Good,

Art Brut
Boxer Rebellion
The Mummers
Easy Star All Stars
The Boss
The Specials
King Size Five


Biggest annoyance

Trying to get to jazz world saturday morning...pure bad planning

[ross1]

im sure that ive missed one.

thursday
Maximo Park - 5/10
We Have Band - 7/10
King Charles - 8/10
Liz Green - 3/10 (meant to see alessis ark but ****ed it up)
Ebony Bones - do not remember/10 (was completely off my face.....)

friday
Lay Low - 6/10
Dan Black - 6/10
Regina Spektor - 6/10
Ebony Bones - 9/10
WhoMadeWho - 8/10
Metronomy - 7/10
Friendly Fires - 4/10
The Whip - 8/10
British Sea Power - 7/10
Animal Collective - 7/10

saturday
First Aid Kit - 7/10 (major sound problems)
Blue Roses - 7/10
Metric - 8/10
Temper Trap - 6/10
Japanese Popstars - 4/10
Micachu & The Shapes - 8/10 (major sound problems)
King Charles - 8/10
Passion Pit - 6/10
Theoretical Girl - 8/10
M Ward - 8/10
Jarvis Cocker - 7/10

sunday
Good Books - 7/10
Micachu & The Shapes - 8/10
Lucy Wainwright - 7/10
Charlotte Hatherley - 8/10
Emmy The Great - 8/10
The Capitol Years - 7/10
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - left/10
The Soft Pack - 7/10
Ladyhawke - 8/10
King Charles - 9/10
Mumford & Sons - 7/10
Laura Marling - 8/10
Peaches 9.5/10

[RyanS]

Alessi's Ark - 7/10
Golden Silvers - 6/10
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General Fiasco - 6/10
Dan Black - 7/10
The Rakes - 6/10
The Maccabees - 8/10
N*E*R*D - 5/10
Fleet Foxes - 8/10
Little Boots - 8/10
Jack Penate - 9/10
Jamie T - 9/10
Bloc Party - 8/10
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VV Brown - 7/10
Peter, Bjorn and John - 7/10
The Big Pink - 7/10
Jason Mraz - 6/10
The King Blues - 10/10
The Gaslight Anthem - 9/10
Passion Pit - 7/10
Kasabian - 6/10
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - 10/10
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In Case of Fire - 3/10
Wave Machines - 4/10
Art Brut - 7/10
Twisted Wheel - 6/10
Enter Shikari - 6/10
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 8/10
Bat for Lashes - 9/10
Bon Iver - 10/10
Blur - 10/10

Edited by RyanS, 29 June 2009 - 04:18 PM.

[raw-edge]

AMAZING:
Madness
Pendulum (although I am biased on this one)
Specials
Regina Spektor (got proper goosebumps and a little emotional - as some random guys from Midboro spotted) in the unlikliness they come on here, hope you two had a great rest of the festival

VERY GOOD:
Memory Band (again biased on this one)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Hot 8 Brass Band
A folky band I've forgotten the name of on the bandstand
Maximo Park
Quo

ALRIGHTISH:
Prodigy
Dizee Rascal
Spinal Tap

POOR:
Doves - but only as I got crowded out of getting to them and lost everyone so didn't get the chance to see them

[martpol]

scappaflow, on Jun 29 2009, 04:43 PM, said:

Poor
Nick Cave

Flabbergasted at this. Best gig I've ever seen!


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 10/10
Shlomo and the Beatbox Orchestra (think that's what they were called) - 10/10

Neil Young - 9/10
Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs - 9/10
Bruce Springsteen - 9/10

Madness - 8/10
Spinal Tap - 8/10

Bjorn Again - 7/10

Fleet Foxes - 6/10 (wrong stage for them)

Fairport Convention - 5/10 (left halfway through)

[mistertibbs]

Hockey 9/10
Dead Weather 9/10
The Streets 6/10
Eagles of Death Metal 10/10
Spinal Tap 9/10
Kasabian 8/10
Whoever was DJing at Arcadia on Saturday Night 10/10
Chief 8/10
Alberta Cross 9/10
Bishi 8/10

Saw so much other stuff than usual. Not many of my favourites were playing so I took so much more in than in previous years. Especially the fire display on saturday, amazing!

EDIT - Did anyone see Xander doing the beat boxing near the Jazz World Stage? Mind blowing.

Edited by mistertibbs, 29 June 2009 - 05:30 PM.

[ollyh]

Completely agree about fleet foxes there, they could have been so much better but while they were still very good, they could have been better and I think park stage would have been perfect as some of the pyramid stage crowd (around me at least) didn't seem interested.

[ParanoidAndroid86]

Friday:

The Whip - 6/10
Regina Spektor - 7/10 - some of her songs are very good, the two on guitar and a couple others weren't great.  She has a great voice but sometimes doesn't use it to good effect.
NERD - 5/10 - Bit difficult to judge given the set was cut so short.  A real car crash start...  Amusing that Pharrell thought the attendance was 200,000 - just for them of course...  And describing the ticket price as $200....I wish!
Fleet Foxes - 8/10 - perhaps not the best stage for them but they put in a classy performance.
The Dead Weather - 4/10 - I saw the 2nd half, not good.  Nothing "special" to justify their "special guest" appearance.
Neil Young - 10/10 - Outstanding performance - just wish he cut down a couple of songs and played 2-3 more.  DBTR was amazing - but Rockin in the Free World (decent song, but not one of my faves) went on a little too long!

Saturday:

Broken Family Band - 7/10, solid stuff
Blue Roses - 8/10 - superb voice
Metric - 7/10 - didn't expect to like them but they were decent.
CSN - 9/10
Maximo Park - 8/10
Bruce - 10/10 - would've enjoyed it more if I knew more of the songs or knew them better but it was a stunning performance.

Sunday:

Art Brut - 4/10
The Mummers - 6/10
YYYs - 6/10
Bat for Lashes - 8/10
Bon Iver - 10/10
Blur - 9/10

Also saw parts of The Streets, Tinariwen, Good Books, Nick Cave among others but didn't see enough to judge.  As much as I like NC I'm not convinced he was right for the Pyramid Stage.

[gemsie1904]

AMAZING

Peter Doherty - his cover of Talking Heads - Psycho Killer was brilliant (although he did forget the 2nd verse)
Blur
Kasabian
Lilly Allan - I was suprised because I'm not a huge fan but I did really enjoy her set.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

GOOD

Emmy the Great
Ladyhawke
The Rakes


After being a Maximo Park fan for a while, but never seeing them live, I was very disappointed with their set at the Queens Head.

[Weekend Cigarette Smoker]

Excellent
Blur
Madness
The Specials
Jarvis
Rolf Harris

Good
Pete Doherty
Amadou & Mariam
Tom Jones
Animal Collective
The Horrors
3 Daft Monkeys

Ok
Art Brut
The Whip
Spinal Tap
Water Aid Choir
Eagles Of Death Metal
Micachu and the Shapes

[Pilgrim S]

martpol, on Jun 29 2009, 05:24 PM, said:

Flabbergasted at this. Best gig I've ever seen!


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 10/10
Shlomo and the Beatbox Orchestra (think that's what they were called) - 10/10

Fleet Foxes - 6/10 (wrong stage for them)

I would strongly agree with what you've said there. Nick Cave was so intense and I just couldn't take my eyes off him. The Bad Seeds were equally amazing. A shame a lot of people didn't get it.

Shlomo was just a totally brilliant and really happy moment. I think everyone that was there, had a good time.

Fleet Foxes are a great band and those harmonies are amazing, however it was lost on that stage. Remember it's the first time they've done anything that size, and they'll get better at it.

Also brilliant were f**ked Up, you might not want to buy the record, but the live show was mental. As well as smashing a glass and a coke can on his face, I think the lead singer covered every blade of grass in the John Peel tent. Was especially funny when his roadie had to stage dive after him holding the microphone lead. They managed to get to the Shelter stand at the back of the tent, and proceeded to generate a mosh pit back there. I don't think the lead singer spent more than 5 minutes on the stage.

I really enjoyed Metronomy on the Thursday as well. There's loads more I could right, but that's all I can think of for now.

[gemsie1904]

I also managed to catch one of the guest slots on the park stage which was two guys out of supergrass (Hot Rats I think they're called), really enjoyed that!!

[Homer]

Everything I saw was good bar Fleet Foxes were a bit dull and I accidentally caught Tony Christie after Quo and he was absolutely dire.

Blur, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave, Dizzee Rascal, Bjorn Again - the list goes on! Badly Drawn Boy's I Wanna Be Adored was a highlight.

[chuckley]

Phil-itfc, on Jun 29 2009, 04:40 PM, said:

this has made me realize how few bands I saw!

The Rakes - good
f**ked up - awesome (should have had a higher slot)
filthy dukes - average
Dan Le sac v's scroobios pip - awesome
Specials - f**king awesome
Bloc Party - awesome

King blues - good
Dizzee Rascal - awful
Kasabian - good
Dj Yoda - banging
2Many DJ's - good

Madness - good
Blur - Amazing

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW U serioussssssssssssss?!  u couldnt have bin up front.  he was so hyped!!!!!!!!