Isle of Wight Festival 2005
Friday 10th to Sunday 12th June 2005Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2DN, England MAP
w/e £75 or £90 with camping, £35 day, campervans £75 - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 35,000
James says hello and says how glad he is to be back on the island playing the festival for the third time. Unfortunately his arrival coincides with me being dragged off to the kids area to help make stuff, but I do manage to hear a visceral Alcoholic and the crowd sing fest of Silence is Easy.
Just before disappearing out of earshot as Bob Marley blasts from the Ice Cube I hear him recounting to the crowd how blown away he is that hes on the same bill as Embrace. He remembers coming home from school and buying the NME with them on the cover. He hopes they dont feel to old if theyre back stage hearing him say this.
No doubt a few new tunes were played, but to be honest its so downbeat and heavy Im kind of glad I missed them - the songs from the Ice Cubes reggae DJ were much sunnier.
review by: Scott Williams