2019 Highlights

[Comfy Bean]

Tom Jones. Wasn’t too excited about his booking but thought he was brilliant. 

Liked some of the versions of his more “cheesy” songs.

What a great band he’s got. Plus he got it dry which helped. Way bigger crowd than Doves.

[Comfy Bean]

New family camping set up.

Was with mates who had kids and was very impressed. Much better than the old place.

Loads of toilets, less walk to the car and decent breakfast in the morning. 6 quid for a big bacon roll and a cuppa.

[Comfy Bean]

Red Rum Club Saturday lunchtime. Thanks to Thurlow of this parish for the heads up.

Oh and @bottonrob for organising the catch up. Always fun and although my legs are killing me I’ll maybe see you next year. No doubt you’ll be still wearing that bloody safari outfit ?

 

[SloopJohnB]

Top 3 highlights for me:

Courteeners - not a fan but really enjoyed their set

Smiths Limited - Great little sing along in the House Party

Orbital - Great start to the festival

saw more bands in smaller tents this year which was great

[gorfield]

not much this year to be honest!

did anyone else think the sound was shit in calling out?

just Doves

[Comfy Bean]

27 minutes ago, SloopJohnB said:

Top 3 highlights for me:

Courteeners - not a fan but really enjoyed their set

Smiths Limited - Great little sing along in the House Party

Orbital - Great start to the festival

saw more bands in smaller tents this year which was great

We went along to see the Smiths Ltd. Well that was the plan. Guess who forgot that Houseparty moved a couple of years ago ?

I also enjoyed the Courteeners. 

[Mattie123]

The snuts- only given half an hour which is a crime

doves 

Nile rodgers 

Thought orbital were great to start the festival  

[Chipbarm]

Highlights - Paul Smith, Reg Hunter and Josh Widdecombe in soapbox on Saturday. Spent 3 dry hours in there sat at the front.

The Lathums in Tim Peaks on Sunday were superb. I only knew one song before I went but it was good to see such young lads having the time of they’re lives with massive grins on they’re faces throughout.

Low points - Tom Jones, I just felt his set went on a lot longer than it needed to. 

Missing Doves due to the rain. We went to Idles who were good but I was so looking forward to the return of Doves but couldn’t handle another soaking.

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

Nile Rogers and Chic, I've seen them loads of times before but they never fail to disappoint. 

Matt Reed and Justin Moorhouse were hilarious in the Soapbox tent on Sunday. 

Edited July 30, 2019 by Ricci's Special Kebabs

[dunx747]

Queen Zee - in House Party - best band of the festival 

Honorable mentions - Calva Louise, Billy Mitchell, Rascalton, Black Futures, Emily Capell, Idles, Dream Wife, Crystal, Hands Off Gretal,  and Red Rum Club. 

Free Lamb bar - great curry on Sunday. 

Most Disappointing - Tom Jones - got it all wrong - just play the hits Tom. 

Edited July 30, 2019 by dunx747

[DomDom1984]

IDLES. Gerry. Chic. Don Broco. Arkells.

[RossendaleR]

Rival Sons

[DomDom1984]

The singer for Rival Sons had quite the voice.

[LOCHLAND5]

Seeing a rather mashed up Kyle Falconer in the Arena Sunday afternoon barefoot 

[DomDom1984]

3 hours ago, dunx747 said:

Most Disappointing - Tom Jones - got it all wrong - just play the hits Tom. 

YES!

I was badly disappointed. When he did play hits, they were so mangled that they meant nothing.

[stuie]

22 minutes ago, LOCHLAND5 said:

Seeing a rather mashed up Kyle Falconer in the Arena Sunday afternoon barefoot 

But did he have the same jeans on?

[LOCHLAND5]

1 minute ago, stuie said:

But did he have the same jeans on?

Aye for 4 days apparently 

[jamj]

Years & Years, Rev n Makers, The Rifles.

[The Other Steve]

10 hours ago, Comfy Bean said:

New family camping set up.

Was with mates who had kids and was very impressed. Much better than the old place.

Loads of toilets, less walk to the car and decent breakfast in the morning. 6 quid for a big bacon roll and a cuppa.

Yes agree, this was excellent

[The Other Steve]

10 hours ago, Comfy Bean said:

Red Rum Club Saturday lunchtime. Thanks to Thurlow of this parish for the heads up.

Oh and @bottonrob for organising the catch up. Always fun and although my legs are killing me I’ll maybe see you next year. No doubt you’ll be still wearing that bloody safari outfit ?

 

My highlight of the weekend - blew me away!!!

[The Other Steve]

1. Red Rum Club

2. Lottery Winners

3. Gerry Cinnamon

4. Chic & Nile Rodgers

5. Tom Jones

6. Slow Readers Club

7. Free Lamb dishes

8. Sneaking loads of booze in

9. Family Camping

10. Popping into Tim Peaks whilst Nile Rodgers was doing an interview

[DomDom1984]

Sneaking booze in was one of the easiest things of that sort I've ever done. I just wandered in with a water bottle with vodka on the Saturday and Sunday and they were fine with it.

EDIT: Calling it sneaking is an insult to sneaking.

Edited July 30, 2019 by DomDom1984

[MistahParker]

Nile Rogers and Chic

The Smiths Ltd

Jurrasic 5's Soup Presents: The Fullee Love Collective (They were on in the Chai Wallah Thursday, I had no idea what to expect and enjoyed the hell out of it)

[The Other Steve]

On 7/30/2019 at 7:12 PM, DomDom1984 said:

Calling it sneaking is an insult to sneaking.

They found a litre of my wine on the Saturday! Missed the other 10 cans and the other litre of wine but still gutted they found what they did.

[Digi]

Arkells

Orbital 

Beans

Nile Rodgers and Chic

Courteeners 

Absolute highlight is the few hours we spent at Woodlands Saturday night...

...Twisted Wheel, Fleetmac Wood (who were incredible) and a couple of hours at the silent disco. Completely piss wet through despite waterproofs, totally drunk after running out of smuggled JD and absolutely skint buying silly amounts of cocktails. Random dancing with strangers and my 24 year old son who still loves the festival scene with his Ma is priceless ❤