V2000 (Chelmsford) 2000
Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th August 2000Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8WQ, England MAP
weekend around £75 (with camping)
V2000 would make a great hen weekend. The 'Saints played Lady Marmalade (you know the one "Voulez Vous Couchez Avec Moi, Ce Soir") to which all the drunken girlies stood up and waved their Bacardi Breezers in the air. Disco fever gripped the V field as they kicked into Booty Call, and all the girlies shook their bottoms. Wow.
Shaznay, Nat, Nic 'n' Mel strut round the stage with all the ego of Robbie Williams and Geri Halliwell combined. Shame they just don't have enough credibility to pull off a painful cover of Aerosmith/Run DMC's Walk This Way. Sorry girls, those squeaky little voices really don't cut the mustard when you're trying to growl like a proper rock star, and Nicole: lose the paisley bandana me love, Axl Rose you are NOT.
We even got treated to some new material (so they have been doing something other than dating .. ) namely Saints and Sinners (forgotten it already) and Tequila (muy Latino, senoritas, but maybe un poco late to be jumping on THAT bandwagon)...
Thankfully the well produced backing track helped their voices along a bit for Never Ever which we all whined along to in a cutesy twang. It's a great pop song and you can't fault them on that and the Pure Shores finalé went down stupendously. I was particularly chuffed to see them ending the set...
review by: Butterfly