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Hyde Park Calling 2006

Saturday 1st to Sunday 2nd July 2006
Hyde Park, London, W2 2UH, England MAP
£42.50 for each day, or £80 for both - on sale 9am Friday 10th March

The sun is beating down as the crowds amass in Hyde Park for this weekend’s feast of music and football put on by Hard Rock Café to celebrate their 35th year. The audience is predominantly white, male and thirty plus. As we wait, it turns out fruitlessly for our photo pass, we can hear a brass band inside playing Dark Side of the Moon – everyone’s singing along and eager for tonight’s performance.

It turns out the stage has been altered and there’s not enough access for photography, so I’m afraid we have no photographs of the main events, but hopefully there will be better news for tomorrow’s acts.

There’s a host of bars including Woodfordes Real Ale Bar, a Champagne Bar, The Pimms Bus and a number of Beer Tents selling ‘Pear Cider’ and the usual lager. There are numerous food stalls and a few stalls selling clothing, hats etc. There’s a Sonic Forest which provides an interesting soundscape to the arena with its strange noises emanating from blue pillars.

Rocco Deluca and the Burden
Blackbud
Breaks Co-Op
Starsailor
Robert Cray
Texas
Roger Waters