Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Calling out to, Radio land...
I'm on Jim's Jukebox Jail on Blast 1386 AM tonight. You can listen via the interweb or on 1386AM if you are in the Reading area.
So, I promised you an Ashton Court sum up and here it is. It was very hot.
Er... ok, so a bit more detail. Ashton Court is just over the Clifton Suspension Bridge from central Bristol, unfortunately the bridge seems to sway quite a lot when there are several thousand people walking across it. It was very scary last year. This year they decided to close the bridge and put on a bus service instead. Which actually worked really well if you left before the massive rush at the end.
I was really there to see Left Side Brain play, they were on the main stage at about half past eight and they must have been playing to more than 10,000 people. Apparently over 90,000 people attended over the two days of the festival and most of those there on Saturday (admittedly the quieter day) were heading over to the main stage by that time in the evening. For my part I just sat down in front of the main stage and drank in the sun all day. When we first got there the stages weren't operational due to a power problem, it got sorted but everything was running behind then. We watched a few good but unexceptional bands, I have to admit to socialising more than I was paying attention to the music. It seemed a lot quieter than last year, possibly as a consequence of the power failure. I think I'll spend more time wandering around the smaller stages if I go next year. It just seemed too hot to move.
Anyway we headed down to the front for Left Side Brain who were really good. Hung around to see Goldie Lookin Chain, who were terrible. Well, I say that. You totally couldn't hear them at all so who knows? Last year Robert Plant was headlining the Saturday, this time it was Goldie Lookin' Chain. There were a lot of people who quite fairly expressed their unhappiness at that.
So, I promised you an Ashton Court sum up and here it is. It was very hot.
Er... ok, so a bit more detail. Ashton Court is just over the Clifton Suspension Bridge from central Bristol, unfortunately the bridge seems to sway quite a lot when there are several thousand people walking across it. It was very scary last year. This year they decided to close the bridge and put on a bus service instead. Which actually worked really well if you left before the massive rush at the end.
I was really there to see Left Side Brain play, they were on the main stage at about half past eight and they must have been playing to more than 10,000 people. Apparently over 90,000 people attended over the two days of the festival and most of those there on Saturday (admittedly the quieter day) were heading over to the main stage by that time in the evening. For my part I just sat down in front of the main stage and drank in the sun all day. When we first got there the stages weren't operational due to a power problem, it got sorted but everything was running behind then. We watched a few good but unexceptional bands, I have to admit to socialising more than I was paying attention to the music. It seemed a lot quieter than last year, possibly as a consequence of the power failure. I think I'll spend more time wandering around the smaller stages if I go next year. It just seemed too hot to move.
Anyway we headed down to the front for Left Side Brain who were really good. Hung around to see Goldie Lookin Chain, who were terrible. Well, I say that. You totally couldn't hear them at all so who knows? Last year Robert Plant was headlining the Saturday, this time it was Goldie Lookin' Chain. There were a lot of people who quite fairly expressed their unhappiness at that.
# posted by Mike @ 11:30 
