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V Festival preview: part 2 - Sunday Chelmsford, Saturday Staffs

KASABIAN

First on - NME Stage
Make sure you see: The hangover crunching bass-line of ID induce the chavved-up Chelmsford site to start fights all over the place.
Get excited when: The Happy Mondays' 'with musical talent' swipe of top ten hit 'LSF' cracks open.
Leave when: You say 'Leicester City are shit' and readily get smacked in the mouth by one of the band.

JAMIE CULLUM

half one-ish - V Stage
Make sure you see: His face. His golden, squidgy good looks will make you realise that you don't need drugs or violence to have a good time.
Get excited when: The warm feeling of sophistication runs through you about being at a jazz concert.
Leave when: Goldie Lookin' Chain start

GOLDIE LOOKIN' CHAIN

2pm- NME Stage
Make sure you see: The one with the lisp.
Get excited when: The aforementioned member wasp: 'Guns don't kill people/Wappers do!'
Leave when: You realise they only have one novelty song.

SNOW PATROL

half 2-ish - V Stage
Make sure you see: The stage catch fire so you can shout 'run!' at them really loudly.
Get excited when: They try and play an old song that pisses all over any of their new, sub-Coldplay dirge, and the crowd react by throwing members of their families.
Leave when: A baby hits you on the head.

BADLY DRAWN BOY

just before 4pm - Main Stage
Make sure you see: The sweat flowing from Badly's head from under the thick woolly hat and layers of denim.
Get excited when: He quits playing a song half-way through to have a fag.
Leave when: He starts having a go at the crowd for not buying his recent LP.

RONI SIZE

5pm-ish - JJB Arena
Make sure you see: Roni whip out his mouth-organ and banjo and pull off a cockney one-man-band version of 'Brown Paper Bag'.
Get excited when: The delectably gorgeous vocalist Tali emerges to bring some bounce-along beauty to Size's broken beats.
Leave when: You can hear more Bristolian accents than phat basslines.

SCISSOR SISTERS
5.30-ish - NME Stage
Make sure you see: Jake Shears wearing that kilt again, having forgetten he's not in Scotland, before 'losing' it in a carefully choreographed accident. "Ooh look what I've done, i'm just sooo like, outraaaageous!"
Get excited when: Jake does.
Leave when: You hear 'Laura' for the seven millionth time.

N*E*R*D
6pm-ish - Main Stage
Make sure you see: Kelis parachute on to the stage naked to jam with her one-time collaborators, even though she's about to start her set at the other V site hundreds of miles away.
Get excited when: Pharrell Williams reveals himself to be the blood-sucking vampire we always suspected - but one with a sensitive side who always gets laid.
Leave when: Pharrell Williams gets killed under a 6-ton falling meteor, attracted from space by the all-powerful tractor-beam of Virgin mobile phones. No one ever really dies, huh?

PIXIES

just before 8pm - Main Stage
Make sure you see: Every song, every note, every howl, every bead of sweat pouring off Frank Black's bald ogre's head.
Get excited when: You hear the "oooh-oooh" of 'Where Is My Mind'.
Leave when: Kim Deal tells you: 'you're the best crowd we've played to' (on our massive come-back tour, playing so many different venues and audiences that it would be impossible to judge) Anyway, heard it all before.

PRIMAL SCREAM

Last on -JJB Tent
Make sure you see: The band playing their new material, preferably with Bobby Gillespie drowning in a bottle of whiskey.
Get excited when: You realise you're the significance of seeing The Scream in their natural habitat, an enclosed, infested, sweaty, smoky tent - and not an outdoor stage, upon which Bobby last played with his eyes closed for the whole set having forgotten his sun glasses.
Leave when: It's over because you're not going to get out before - and why would you want to?

To check out the other day's guide, click here:

V Festival preview: part 2 - Sunday Chelmsford, Sa

if the stokes are recomended, then why put a big strokes pic on the article?

V Festival preview: part 2 - Sunday Chelmsford, Sa

arnt. if the strokes ARNT.

V Festival preview: part 2 - Sunday Chelmsford, Sa

It's "aren't", actually.... but point made. ;-)

Maybe the Strokes pic is simply to further increase my hatred of those stupid fucking jackets. If you own one, you're a wanker.

Re: V Festival preview: part 2 - Sunday Chelmsford, Sa

yeah, what is it with those jackets? they're not cool if your idols are wearing them, kids.

V Festival preview: part 2 - Sunday Chelmsford, Saturday Staffs

the sunday was soo good! we just stayed outside the nme stage for ages... kasabian were excellent along withscissor sissters, BRMC were so good and the zutons when ur on shrooms and also the strokes were so fuckin amazin!!

saturday was eally good too, but didnt see as many bands, realy upsetbout jet puling out, but kings of leon really rocked the place.

cnt wait till next year!! xxxx

ps ive got reading to do tomorrow, oh such a hard life!!

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