The Poolie Bunker

first things first, cheers Kev!!!! Toppermost gadgie!!


Bands: [in order of brilliance]

Field Music - superb,singer and drummer changed over halfway thru + theyre both as good as each other on their instruments [musical ].this to me is very impressive

Maximo Park - again fantastic, atmosphere amazing with the crowd singing all the words. Graffitti stand out song

The Fall - fan-f ucking-tastic!! smith turns up late,grumps and growls his way around the stage, turns amps up shoves mic's in drums, over-runs his timeslot and insists his band play 1 more song.when they start it he walks off!! legend!

Duels - wasnt on my list but I'm sooo glad i caught them, 1 song very nearly reduced me to tears. this to me is impressive!

Arctic Monkeys - wasnt expecting to like them that much, and like the album they are quite hit n miss, but the hits!!! really enjoyable.kids loved em. they look like they are about 13 tho. this to me is depressing!!

The Racontuers - really,really good! tent wasnt as rammed as i thought it would be mind.... anyway,these are deffo a 'Jack White' band. stand out song their cover of Bang Bang[?nancy sinatra thing] + steady as she goes

Franz Ferdinand - great show. this is all. lights/tunes/atmosphere

Placebo - a real blast from the past, and a great gig! stand out song Nancy Boy

The Streets - plain good time fun band. enjoyed em despite dry yer eyes mate...

The Futureheads - sound got lost a bit. still love em tho. stand out song Carnival Kids

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - were almost great, karen o being pissed didnt help them much. maps was sooooooooooo slow and quiet, but still great!

Fields - read about em on sat morn in't NME decided to give em a whirl, started off great and the 1st 3 songs were cracking, but then it decended into sameyness. this to me is disappointing

Kaiser Chiefs - hits aside,awful! cant remember 1 tune other than 'riot' or.......singers a mong too.introduced by peter kay [Kaiser???! Chiefs??!!] this to me says PK has ran out of ideas

Little Man Tate - shi te.

Pearl Jam - saw 3 songs...utter shite!!



Weather:

great untill the monsoon late on sunday!




Beer:
copious!!!! cheers Kev!!



Fairground:

my God!!! terrifying!! went on a ride with jack,big horrible twirly thing that sends you right high up and upside down...I screamed and went 'FoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk all the way round, when we got off jack says 'you swore a lot there dad!'
yeah! i thought i was gonna die!!!

totally brilliant weekend, roll on next year!!!!

roll on next year indeed - seeing as I didnt go to this one. Was asked to go along by a friend but thought it was taking the mick with a two month (now five) old baby. Our lass would probably have changed the locks.
Thanks for the write-up. Looks like Field Music should definitely be one to look forward to.
Not bothered by Raconteurs. Yeah yeah yeah's I would have loved to have seen. A friend has bought me back a Gogol Bordello t-shirt and two hash lollipops. I dont expect the lollies to work whatsoever so hopefully I might be even a little bit surprised.

oh yeah

me an the kids were walking past the Nokia stage and this lass approaches me saying 'do yer wanna do an air guitar competion?'
me: 'no frigging chance love, see yer!'

kids says whats air guitar? so i told em and they go you mean like this?*get down on their knees giving it all ROCK pain faces*!

i goes yeah, they goes can we do it dad?x1,000!

so they do it, and win!!! in front of a couple of 100 people too!
won a bloody dead posh Nokia phone, you know the twisty kinda one?

its going on ebay today! they can split the dosh between em, cos the arguments about who gets it is really doing me head in!

definately

dunno what you are into what with taste being subjective and that, but I was very much blown away by them :sweet:

Peter Kay =

comedy which doesn't poke fun at someone by using personal abuse isn't funny to me. I am very simple minded and a quite appalling bloke all round. So that's what makes my sense of humour what it is. I am a c-un-t.

Pearl Jam?? Shite?? HOW DARE YOU!!!

I didn't see them but I heard many conflicting opinions.

actually I said Pearl Jam were utter shite!!


MJ, I had guillemots,clap your hands and primal scream on my list, but couldnt manage em with the kids...well, i seen a bit of guillemots but not enough to really form an opinion!same as primals,saw em on the screen but it looked chocka and i'd never get em in there....pity like

I agree with you about arctic monkeys, they're a bit hit n miss - which is what their albums like innit? but the good bits were really good and the kids love em,well theyre about the same age!!

Did any of you see the Fratellis, they looked pretty good on the telly

I saw about five minutes of them but by that time I was cold and knackered so I went back to base.

They were OK but I saw them earleir in the summer in Hyde Park and thought them very good.

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went to see raconteurs instead