Reading Festival
Drive to parents near Reading, sleep. Drive to Southampton. Meet friend, pick up other friends tent. Get last minute gear. Forget can opener. Get Coach to Reading. Arrive. Walk around campsite for ages trying to find anywhere at all where tents can still be pitched. Find somewhere. B6. Hurrah:
Relax in tent, enjoy foreboding weather. Go find beer. Acquire a crate of a beer that has a fine balance between taste and refreshment, and is wonderful served ice cold, especially at Carling (TM) branding festivals. Drink many.
Make Pentagram out of grass to hang in friends tent above crappy picture of Liam Gallagher. Some sort of small demonstration for late arrival and having to take their tent to acquire them a spot.
Hang Pentagram:
Friends arrive.
Musical Highlights
Gogol Bordello - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Be Your Own Pet - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Dresden Dolls - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Muse -best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Peaches - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Morning After Girls - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
The Like - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
</And there were tonnes more, but that is far to many badly focused cameraphone pics for this part of this blog.>
General festival mess/fun, also best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
I had a silly hat too, which was much better for the pint of iced cold Carling I had at the time - a great balance of taste and refreshment!
Other festival things:
Placebo - not great, like last time. But, during their 15 minute silence due to amp failure, the overhead crowd camera focuses on the audience, happens to glance on a girl on some blokes shoulders. She lifts her top. Crowd goes Whoh!, then purposefully on another, same, crowd goes Whoh!, then purposefully on another, declines, crowd goes Boo!, then purposefully on another, same, crowd goes Whoh! etc. This was all on national TV, so must be on YouTube somewhere.
New Jarvis Cocker Song - Cunts are still Ruling the World
Which was quite an appealing sing along to everyone waiting for Muse.
Is anyone thinking Carling may have overdone the branding... ?
The Organ never seemed to turn up, I missed The Research because I was queuing for the toilets. I missed Duels because we were hat shopping, and Giant Drag for some forgotten reason. I also missed the SGUK breakfast thing, we got there just after 12, an hour late. Damn over doing it the early morning before.
Simon Amstell and especially the brilliant Stewart Lee (comedians) were hilarious. Esme and Violet's Burlesque was great too. Meat Wedding... unusual. The tent was full of morons though - why do chavs go to Reading? And points to Son of Dave for getting the kid that chucked beer all over him chucked out ("I'm not angry, come to the front, we'll have a hug". *Boy moves to front* SoD nods at bouncers..).
So my 6th festival attendance, was again, like the others almost entirely sunny. Yay! Totally fantastic time, great bands, good to catch up with friends. I was really glad to go, having not been to one for a few years. Everything was so so fab. Many plans for next year, for further festival excitedness. Glasto, or Lost Vagueness, and if no Glasto tickets, maybe Carling Weekend, but at Leeds? Krazy.
Back to Southampton. Where we Had Sushi:
The plate at the bottom is vegetarian (Tofu/Avocado stuffed).
Damnit, there is now also a Japanese restaurant... now I've moved away to Shrewbleshitebury. And the new rock club (Unit 22), and Morrison's has sold the local supermarket to Waitrose... strangely all the customers deserted them when they got rid of all the vegetarian/ethnic/delicatessen food and piled it high with 5000 cheap meat pies.
Nothing of interest has really happened this week, here in Boringville unsurprisingly. Although I did go running this morning, and fell over and my running trousers split. I like to think this had more to do with running around Southampton Common in them several hundred times, rather than any festival related weight gain. Luckily I went shopping before the jogging. Luckily.
Everything seems really boring and depressing now. Post-festival come down. Thank you oh so much 2006, better luck next year, now the pointless short summer is over. No holidays to xmas. Days getting shorter. Too many things to do too little time. Arguments with people with similar feelings. Never enough time to show. I just can't shift this depressing mental backdrop right now. It's like being back in my 2000 mind state. Superficially some things are great, its all shiny on top. I just think someone used totally the wrong building blocks. Veneer.
Went to see Severance last night - it's an OK film. Quite funny, plenty of gore, enjoyable enough for a trip to the cinema. Black comedy is rarely a bad choice. The funniest thing, was that several of the actors/characters looked like people from work. The boss had the same nervous mannerisms for example. Which generally made it funnier.
Back down to the south-coast this coming weekend to go sea kayaking, and dodge supertankers in the Solent.
Which reminds me... Go see this link (pic too wide to put here). Note location of Portsmouth. That's Southampton. Damn stupid paper
Conventional Geography:
Maybe the sailors were using "The Sun Atlas 2006" to navigate?
Who else has a Flickr account? Add me! Mine geotagged onto Google maps, on Loc.alize.us - click on the link to go to Flickr. Although it doesn't show all the photos, despite their tagging on the map for some reason...
Bouncy space craft, crashing onto the moon on purpose! People, look back with nostalgia at the days when men were put on the moon, but hey today we just smash stuff into solar bodies - that's still fun, no? Hopefully the outcome from this will be just as amazing as when Deep Impact hit Tempel 1 last year.
Drive to parents near Reading, sleep. Drive to Southampton. Meet friend, pick up other friends tent. Get last minute gear. Forget can opener. Get Coach to Reading. Arrive. Walk around campsite for ages trying to find anywhere at all where tents can still be pitched. Find somewhere. B6. Hurrah:
Relax in tent, enjoy foreboding weather. Go find beer. Acquire a crate of a beer that has a fine balance between taste and refreshment, and is wonderful served ice cold, especially at Carling (TM) branding festivals. Drink many.
Make Pentagram out of grass to hang in friends tent above crappy picture of Liam Gallagher. Some sort of small demonstration for late arrival and having to take their tent to acquire them a spot.
Hang Pentagram:
Friends arrive.
Musical Highlights
Gogol Bordello - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Be Your Own Pet - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Dresden Dolls - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Muse -best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Peaches - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
Morning After Girls - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
The Like - best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
</And there were tonnes more, but that is far to many badly focused cameraphone pics for this part of this blog.>
General festival mess/fun, also best enjoyed with a pint of iced cold Carling - the balance of taste and refreshment.
I had a silly hat too, which was much better for the pint of iced cold Carling I had at the time - a great balance of taste and refreshment!
Other festival things:
Placebo - not great, like last time. But, during their 15 minute silence due to amp failure, the overhead crowd camera focuses on the audience, happens to glance on a girl on some blokes shoulders. She lifts her top. Crowd goes Whoh!, then purposefully on another, same, crowd goes Whoh!, then purposefully on another, declines, crowd goes Boo!, then purposefully on another, same, crowd goes Whoh! etc. This was all on national TV, so must be on YouTube somewhere.
New Jarvis Cocker Song - Cunts are still Ruling the World
Which was quite an appealing sing along to everyone waiting for Muse.
Is anyone thinking Carling may have overdone the branding... ?
The Organ never seemed to turn up, I missed The Research because I was queuing for the toilets. I missed Duels because we were hat shopping, and Giant Drag for some forgotten reason. I also missed the SGUK breakfast thing, we got there just after 12, an hour late. Damn over doing it the early morning before.
Simon Amstell and especially the brilliant Stewart Lee (comedians) were hilarious. Esme and Violet's Burlesque was great too. Meat Wedding... unusual. The tent was full of morons though - why do chavs go to Reading? And points to Son of Dave for getting the kid that chucked beer all over him chucked out ("I'm not angry, come to the front, we'll have a hug". *Boy moves to front* SoD nods at bouncers..).
So my 6th festival attendance, was again, like the others almost entirely sunny. Yay! Totally fantastic time, great bands, good to catch up with friends. I was really glad to go, having not been to one for a few years. Everything was so so fab. Many plans for next year, for further festival excitedness. Glasto, or Lost Vagueness, and if no Glasto tickets, maybe Carling Weekend, but at Leeds? Krazy.
Back to Southampton. Where we Had Sushi:
The plate at the bottom is vegetarian (Tofu/Avocado stuffed).
Damnit, there is now also a Japanese restaurant... now I've moved away to Shrewbleshitebury. And the new rock club (Unit 22), and Morrison's has sold the local supermarket to Waitrose... strangely all the customers deserted them when they got rid of all the vegetarian/ethnic/delicatessen food and piled it high with 5000 cheap meat pies.
Nothing of interest has really happened this week, here in Boringville unsurprisingly. Although I did go running this morning, and fell over and my running trousers split. I like to think this had more to do with running around Southampton Common in them several hundred times, rather than any festival related weight gain. Luckily I went shopping before the jogging. Luckily.
Everything seems really boring and depressing now. Post-festival come down. Thank you oh so much 2006, better luck next year, now the pointless short summer is over. No holidays to xmas. Days getting shorter. Too many things to do too little time. Arguments with people with similar feelings. Never enough time to show. I just can't shift this depressing mental backdrop right now. It's like being back in my 2000 mind state. Superficially some things are great, its all shiny on top. I just think someone used totally the wrong building blocks. Veneer.
Went to see Severance last night - it's an OK film. Quite funny, plenty of gore, enjoyable enough for a trip to the cinema. Black comedy is rarely a bad choice. The funniest thing, was that several of the actors/characters looked like people from work. The boss had the same nervous mannerisms for example. Which generally made it funnier.
Back down to the south-coast this coming weekend to go sea kayaking, and dodge supertankers in the Solent.
Which reminds me... Go see this link (pic too wide to put here). Note location of Portsmouth. That's Southampton. Damn stupid paper
Conventional Geography:
Maybe the sailors were using "The Sun Atlas 2006" to navigate?
Who else has a Flickr account? Add me! Mine geotagged onto Google maps, on Loc.alize.us - click on the link to go to Flickr. Although it doesn't show all the photos, despite their tagging on the map for some reason...
Bouncy space craft, crashing onto the moon on purpose! People, look back with nostalgia at the days when men were put on the moon, but hey today we just smash stuff into solar bodies - that's still fun, no? Hopefully the outcome from this will be just as amazing as when Deep Impact hit Tempel 1 last year.
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I recommended Severance to the folk in the office who will lap it up no doubt.