Rate the bands you saw

[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]

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.

[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

[FakeEmpire]

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 June 29, 2009 by RyanS

[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

[CardiffWanderer]

Poor

Nick Cave

[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 June 29, 2009 by mistertibbs

[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]

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)

[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]

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

[Josie's Cat]

Well I hardly saw any bands but I thought Dizzee was shite as well! Apart obviously from Bonkers, that bassline just makes your blood bounce, it was great. He should have just done that and gone home.

Lady GaGa - the kid wanted to see her, so I thought why not, but I thought she put on an awesome show - climbing on the piano, bouncing around, energtic and just fun. Plus she had a bra that shot out sparks - waaay beter than Lily Allen who just looked like a schoolkid who had taken the wrong turn and somehow ended up on the pyramid stage.

Pendulum were pretty good, energetic, good atmosphere - wehre were the lasers though? Poor poor poor - needed more of a show! Some flares didn't cut it.

[Hotfoxy]

We were at the bbc compound at dizzee he was soooo bad.

When he did that Michael Jackson remix thing it just sounded like a really bad wedding disco!

[chuckley]

i only saw people i wanted to see and the people in front of em, so none were bad.

NERD was AMAZING minus the short set... technical probs so i hear.... HOWEVER was that down to them or the team setting up the stage?! either way it was unprofessional for the crew to cut them the way they did and just bring on the filler. people ALWAYS overrun and they always let them, but NERD aint allowed????????

they only just got started. woulda been amazin as a headline slot!!!!!!

GLAD i caught VV Brown on sunday in dance east, instead of rushing to pyramid on sat morn (why did they give her that stage?!) coz she did remixes of her songsssss

[chuckley]

We were at the bbc compound at dizzee he was soooo bad.

When he did that Michael Jackson remix thing it just sounded like a really bad wedding disco!

[Josie's Cat]

Oh yeah, we saw some NERD as well, enjoyed them!

NERD - "You paid your two hundred dollars you gonna enjoy yourselves..."

Bloke in crowd "Dollars? You're not in America now mate!"

thought that was funny.