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Well that was a very enjoyable weekend.... highlights being Brakes, Piney Gir, 65 days of static and Motormark. Left at around 6 to avoid crowds and because I was generally exausted.

And you?
roastthemonaspit | 24 Jul '05, 23:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the big Truck comedown starts here
*cries*
thommo | 24 Jul '05, 23:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You missed iForward Russia! :o

Truck was great great great. Except Martin Grech, whom my housemate wanted to see. He bored the shit out of me, but at least the acoustic tent was full so I could bask in the collective body heat like a festival-going penguin.
monpot | 24 Jul '05, 23:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i didn't miss iForward Russia! *glee*
they were bloody loud for that time on a Sunday evening though.

i couldn't stand Martin Grech either. Was waiting for Chris T-T impatiently, yes, but he sounded in physical pain rather than emotional pain. Ah well...
thommo | 24 Jul '05, 23:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I was on about the thread-starter, they said they left at 6, which -outrageous as it may seem- means they missed iFR!

"We're more magic -and we've got more numbers...this one's called Eleven!"

That drummer-girl is bloody good!

Chris TT was enjoyable, poor fella did seem to be suffereing tho.
monpot | 24 Jul '05, 23:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah i know you were, just pointing out how AWESOME iFR! were.

i'm more excited about Chris T-T's new album too....

Poverty's bad
War is bad
Racism's bad
Well done, have a biscuit.

Who saw Towers of London being followed by twelve-year-old girls? *puts hand up*
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 00:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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That was AWESOME. His new stuff is sounding wonderfully, and lyrically as incisive as normal.
guntrip | 25 Jul '05, 13:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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my mum looks better than those guys.

truck was fucking awesome.
eleanor | 27 Jul '05, 11:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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well at least you went! i've been working all weekend and all week :(
rosa | 24 Jul '05, 23:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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*jealous*
ladyoftheflowers | 24 Jul '05, 23:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Reading Buildup starts here!

we will have a DiS meet up?
fullerov | 24 Jul '05, 23:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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me and pirate are going to reading, so i'm thinking we should.
rosa | 24 Jul '05, 23:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I will look out for a bear then.
fullerov | 24 Jul '05, 23:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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a bear acompanied by a badger/pirate and a duck and possibly a shark.
rosa | 24 Jul '05, 23:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I have a Zoo as my entourage.

I will also be bringing no DiSers with me. Actually i did meet a DiSer last week, but i already knew him.
fullerov | 24 Jul '05, 23:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A fine weekend indeed. The Young Knives were Saturday's highlight for me. Battle were good as was Patrick Wolf (though I heard he demanded his own dressing room and was an all-round pain in the arse)

Brakes were the best band I saw today by far although I actually quite enjoyed The Magic Numbers *goes red in the face*

And saddest sight of the weekend...Towers of London groupie-hunting outside the toilets drinking White Lightning
Mr_P | 24 Jul '05, 23:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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me and pirate come as a pair apparently. I can imagine it would be really strange having people coming up to you and saying 'her fullerov' and not knowing who they are
rosa | 24 Jul '05, 23:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Nah your first time is weird, but then you get used to it. It seems more appropriate to referr to them by their usernames.
monpot | 24 Jul '05, 23:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Not really.

i would guess that they were from DiS.

Other people call me by my first name.
fullerov | 24 Jul '05, 23:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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*hey even
rosa | 24 Jul '05, 23:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm gonna give out my mobile number before i go, so i can arrange a meet up with people.

*sighs when he realises, he has slipped a futher rung on the great ladder of Cool*
fullerov | 24 Jul '05, 23:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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so, you went around for the weekend saying 'oh, thommo, is that wishpig over there by fellalady'? Isn't that weird?
ladyoftheflowers | 24 Jul '05, 23:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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That's basically exactly what I did.
monpot | 24 Jul '05, 23:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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since my name is my user name i may be a little confused if i ever meet any dis people.
rosa | 24 Jul '05, 23:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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hehe i love the fact i'm a member of dis its like my dirty little secret. Shhhhhhh!

who cares anyway.
rosa | 24 Jul '05, 23:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Man cares!

The Man always cares!
fullerov | 24 Jul '05, 23:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Patrick Wolf (though I heard he demanded his own dressing room and was an all-round pain in the arse)

ahahahaha. aww, patrick's lovely really.
Pompey_Ruffian | 25 Jul '05, 01:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I met you! haha.
guntrip | 25 Jul '05, 12:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i met you! Briefly. moribund was there too.
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 13:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i would tell you the bands i enjoyed but i might be reviewing it so i'll save it up.

i give the banana smoothies five stars.
thommo | 24 Jul '05, 23:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Agreed! BUT I was quite dissapointed when the woman started spooning big tablespoons of sugar into my 'healthy alternative'.

I give no stars to the woman in the Ice Cream Stand;

Me: Can I have an Ice Cream?
Her: A what?
Me: An Ice Cream
Her: Pardon?
Me: Ice! Cream!
Her: Scuse me?
Me Ice Cream!!!
Her: OK.

In my head tho I shouted "What the fuck do you think I want? I'm in the god-damned Ice Cream tent! The only other thing you sell is sherbert, even if you can't understand me you can hear that I'm saying 2 words and it ends in an 'eem' sound! Sherbert is not 2 words, and doesn't end in an 'eem'. Now give me an ice cream you cunt!"
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 00:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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uh, SELL me an ice cream you cunt, actually.

I'm making the last verse about that.
i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band | 25 Jul '05, 00:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ROBOCHRIST!!!!!! wins

and the open mouths

but biffy clyro were boring

i can't remember much else and i'm actually still a bit of a mess as i write this

thank you

good night
Juan | 25 Jul '05, 00:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh yeah Robochrist was absolutely fucking awesome.
i wanted to piss myself laughing at the Geordie Racer sample he used.
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 00:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah, you should have brought wishpig along with you and pointed at her t-shirt.
Poor girl, she missed the Trailer Trash Orchestra do a hillbilly version of 'Now I Wanna Be Sedated'.

Oh yeah, that reminds me, did anyone see the four-year-old Ramones fan?
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 00:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeh, he walked past us and Wishpig's eyes lit up -I worried I was about to witness some kidnapping.
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 00:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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maybe he wasn't four years old but just very, very short?
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 00:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Dunno, I thought it might have been the same kid I saw throwing Devil Horn signs during Electric Eel Shock last year.
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 01:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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who was dressed as Tigger during Goldrush's set?
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 01:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Highlights:
-Forward Russia
-Patrick Wolf
-Fonda 500
-Trademark
-Mesaplex
-undertheigloo
-RoboChrist
-Chris TT
-65daysofstatic
-Editors
-Brakes
-Mystery Jets
-MC Lars

I'm sure i've missed someone out.

Lowlights:
-Hondo Maclean
-Magic Numbers
-Towers of London

I met Pretty_Vacant and Wishpig and they were lovely. I met Quietcrown as well, but I didn't realise until a bit after as my hearing had been knackered up by Forward Russia minutes beforehand. He was nice.

I saw Monpot and Thommo on several occasions but didn't pluck up the courage to say anything. Monpot gave me a bored look as we were watching some lass called Juliet. Who was a bit rubbish really.

I saw Brainlove as well, but I didn't want to cramp his style.

The dancing in the Acoustic Tent on Saturday night/Sunday morning was a wonder to behold. And Wishpig was singing along to a Kaiser Chiefs song. Ha!

utm_usic | 25 Jul '05, 01:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm terribly offended! You spoke to Wishpig and them, why not me? What did I do? I would have offered you a beer!

PV told me you were about, and I said that I didn't know what you looked like, she gave the best description;

"He has longish hair, and a Truck t-shirt" -easy to spot then!

I was very bored by Juliette. You know when a saucy looking girl singing about her proactive sex life bores you, that it must indeed be ummmm boring. Well, more over-done than boring. Well done! You like sex, and you have a drum machine! Or a drummer behind a big perspex screen as the case may be.
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 01:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You were intimidating!

That sounds a bit like me, although I had many costume changes and was wearing an MC LARS t-shirt when I saw you earlier. She might have forgotten to mention 'minging', but she probably would have withheld that, being nice 'n all.

Yeah, I came in just before you and left soon after you did. There wasn't much happening at that point though so I was clutching at straws...
utm_usic | 25 Jul '05, 01:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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silly utm. i don't bite....(hard).
we could have talked about Fonda, or LotF, or Didcot Rotary Club...
i decided to cramp Brainlove's style as much as i could and it felt strangely liberating...hehe...

were you in the Acoustic Tent when they played Guns and Roses? *shudders*
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 01:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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YES! But they also played Dinosaur Jr = they get a reprieve.
utm_usic | 25 Jul '05, 01:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah there seemed to be a pattern when i was there.

Reggae platter, BlocKaiserKillers tune, another reggae platter with somebody trying to put a youkay garridge a-capella over the top, hair metal, reggae platter.....and so the cycle continues.

And was it just my warped imagination or was Boris Becker there?
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 01:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think I know who you mean actually :-D

Haha.
utm_usic | 25 Jul '05, 02:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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he-he... i was wondering how early in the eve it would be before someone would post a pre-truck thread;)

what i enjoyed about truck?
most likely the fact that i stumbled upon bands/musicians that i'd heard of but hadn't heard (if that makes sense)... some of the acts i enjoyed:

65 days of static
the drug squad (it was the kid in the orange wet weather gear skanking along that put a smile to my dial)
c-jags
stuffy and the fuses
the walk off (with evil looking bear harassing the crowd!)
chris t-t
forward russia (during their set, some little girl decided she really liked my blue jumper and attempted to steal it, whilst i was standing right next to her!)

thats all i can remember right now... but overall an enjoyable weekend. oh, and if you want to get into the backstage area... all you need to do is get white toilet paper twist it tightly and secure it around your wrist - (the security staff didn't really check - and this was done at night;) but to be honest not much was going on backstage anyways...

x
mKs
kittysparks | 25 Jul '05, 08:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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highlights in no order:

the walk off
sexy breakfast
fell city girl
scaramanga six
zea
robochrist
patrick wolf
65 days of static

lowlights:
towers of london (not even funny)
schla la las
rain
hangover
darkpigeon | 25 Jul '05, 11:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I thought the Schla La Las were shit as well. Pretty_ Vacant tried to stick up for them for some reason. Meh, I think I lasted longer watching Towers of London than I did them.
utm_usic | 25 Jul '05, 11:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i saw them a few weeks back and really enjoyed them...but on saturday they were just boring. I liked:

sexy breakfast
trademark
loz colbert
dusty soundsystem
goldrush
mc lars
fell city girl

im sure there were more...
jimox4 | 25 Jul '05, 12:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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sexy breakfast are ace - its their boat party on sunday which should be fantastique
darkpigeon | 25 Jul '05, 23:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah! i'll be there! the last one was class too.
jimox4 | 26 Jul '05, 00:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ace - im not sure if ill go yet but looks good, hopefully the toilets work this time
darkpigeon | 26 Jul '05, 01:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ah it's ok! if they don't at least there's a river.
jimox4 | 26 Jul '05, 01:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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hah fair point. its a toss up between this and duckfest for me (can't afford both), look out for someone that looks like my profile pic :|
darkpigeon | 26 Jul '05, 20:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Schla la las are just good pop fun. There's nowt wrong with that. Plus, they had the best stage banter of the weekend
quietcrown | 25 Jul '05, 13:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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and matching costumes! *heart*
quietcrown | 25 Jul '05, 13:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the drummers costume was a bit different

they were sub-pipettes, and that says a lot
darkpigeon | 25 Jul '05, 23:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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what was wrong with chris t-t?
shadyadie | 25 Jul '05, 12:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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He had a really bad headache, some nice lady in the crowd gave him some juice. I think someone offered him some kind of medication but he turned it down.

Still put in a good set tho.
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 12:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I agree Chris T-T was good, a few more funny ones would have been nice though. I had my fingers crossed for "i dream of injured popstars" and "eminem is gay" but sadly heard neither. Martin Gretch was on before him and was incredible, despite forgetting how most of his songs went. Can't see what the big fuss is about MC lars i must say.
cheggers | 25 Jul '05, 12:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think he's just taking his music more seriously these days..
guntrip | 25 Jul '05, 13:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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That song about the countryside was good -funny without being a 'joke' song.
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 13:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I had a good weekend.

I now feel terrible.
RockNRollMassacre | 25 Jul '05, 13:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It's because you drunk all brainlove's and fidel's cider.I didn't drink enough - I was hoping for an epic hangover.
quietcrown | 25 Jul '05, 13:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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hmm, the cider was a mistake.

i don't think brainlove likes me very much.
RockNRollMassacre | 25 Jul '05, 13:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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haha your little scream when wolf played running up a hill was hilarious!!
mondogenerated05 | 25 Jul '05, 13:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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he sounded like a girl, then wouldnt shut up about how fit patrick wolf, apparently, is...

i dont think i get patrick wolf.
staz | 25 Jul '05, 14:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I liked the weird stuff with the violin, possibly because of my college indoctrination into violin noises, but the rest of his set was a bit meh for me.
argle | 25 Jul '05, 14:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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he just didnt really do anything for me. which is a shame.
staz | 25 Jul '05, 14:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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What were you hoping he'd do for you? Some housework, maybe? Or possibly the weekly shopping.
argle | 25 Jul '05, 14:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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find an instant cure for the mumps for emma. he did do that? did he hell, he just played about with his instruments... geez.
staz | 25 Jul '05, 14:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I can honestly say i prefer Patrick Wolf to orgasms.
RockNRollMassacre | 25 Jul '05, 15:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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what about orgasms with Patrick Wolf?

hmm....
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 15:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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what about orgasms with Patrick Wolf?

hmm....
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 15:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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two orgasms!
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 15:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i think he's taking subject matter more seriously this year whilst promoting 'Red Songs'. And then returning to the rock band (who happen to also be most of Stuffy and the Fuses) next year, in the third of the London trilogies.

He played Drink Beer though! Which was fitting.
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 13:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Argh I've got Post-Festival Phantom Wrist Band Syndrome!
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 13:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You took your's off? heathen!!

Mine will be with me till the day I die.
quietcrown | 25 Jul '05, 14:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I just don't like having things on my wrist. I've only recently started wearing a watch again, but I can't keep it on for long.

Festival wrist bands are cut off and binned as soon as I get home. I'm not the sentimental type.
monpot | 25 Jul '05, 14:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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These ones don't say 'Truck' on them like they used to though...only the backstage "Don't you know who i am?" passes...
thommo | 25 Jul '05, 14:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I was very jealous of the backstage passes - the purple ones were a bit crap not having Truck written on them! I can't believe you were all there watching Chris TT and I didn't speak to any of you! *cries at lameness*
nice_squirrel | 25 Jul '05, 14:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the reason for the puurple crap ones was that the multi coloured rainbow ones where deemed to easy to get off and give to someone else....late on friday night

the new ones only arrived at 4am on saturday morning, so there was no time to make them nice and pretty
mondogenerated05 | 25 Jul '05, 15:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh, that seems fair enough. They were a pretty colour!
nice_squirrel | 25 Jul '05, 15:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Not long back, as I stayed on Sunday night too...so much rain!

I met none of you, apart from John Brainlove and guntrip-who I knew already.

My highlights were-
65 Days of Static (predictable that!)
Martin Grech ( I know he forgot how some of his songs ended, but what he did play included some of my favourites and two completely new songs to me.)
Brakes
Scaramanga Six
The Edible 5ft Smiths
Chris TT
Zea
the Young Knives
Nervous test pilot
Luke Smith
and possibly Fell City Girl-I only got to hear one song, but that I liked.

Bored by-
Towers of London
Scha La Las
Biffy
Magic Numbers (so slushy!)

Surprised to find I liked do me bad things too.
star | 25 Jul '05, 14:32 | Send note |