Ankle deep in mud? Having a laugh aren’t you? You should’ve been in the dance tent at Glastonbury 1998 for the infamous poo tractor accident - KNEE deep in mud, and other brown substances!
hit by bottles of wee, mud, unable to get car out of carpark cause of mud (at £10 a day to park) girl in front just weeing on me in crowd, Amy unable to remember her words as so off her face…..Laugh ?
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Caz have you ever actually been to a festival before-brighten up! I camped the whole weekend and had a great time, yes it was muddy it always is. Everyone knows it will be and is prepared for that. The car park was a bit of a disaster. Left late Sunday night and saw no sign of a steward or anyone to help people out off the mud BUT as it was a festival and the festival spirit was still high everyone was getting out of cars and helping each other push cars out of the mud. Had a great time and everyone i went with did too! Muse were AMAZING!!
V was awesome, i left about 12 on monday out of the car park within a hour… who cares about the mud when your watching great bands like the verve, kings of leon, stereophonics and muse in the same weekend! bring on V 09!!!!
Gotta take objection to The Feeling in that list, Y Mab - wimpy!
But nice to see the mighty Hot Leg get a mention . . and don’t forget that The Darkness, minus Justin, are now the rather splendid Stone Gods.
My perfect festival:
Rush
Led Zep
Queen
Kiss
Genesis
Journey
AC/DC
Deep Purple
Iron Maiden
Muse
Pink Floyd
Yes
INXS
Bruce Springsteen
Rod Stewart
Billy Joel
Elton John
The Who
The Answer
The Darkness
Black Stone Cherry
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heavens Basement
Ted Nugent
Gotthard
Status Quo
Peter Frampton
Judas Priest
forget v its just a pop concert, why not lend some coverage to a festival that actually happened in shropshire with shropshire bands like farmer phils…
Well, actually (if you include a few line up changes like Queen & Paul Rodgers and only two original members of The Who being left) virtually EVERY ONE on my list!
And I’m 45 (first gig was Queen in ‘78), quite happy about the fact and also quite happy to listen to newer bands when they deliver the goods (Muse, Black Stone Cherry, The Answer etc), but I am depressed by the quality of a lot of young bands . . . how many still will be around in 30 years?
While V is never going to have the diversity of bands festivals like Glastonbury has, or the “rock” background of the Leeds/Reading or Donnington festivals, it doesn’t have bad line ups.
This year if you liked older bands there were Squeeze, Pogues, Stranglers, Echo and the Bunnymen and Richard Hawley.
If you like pop then Girls Aloud, Sugarbabes, will young and Estelle.
Indie bands included Ian Brown, Shed Seven, Charletons, Verve and the Twang
Dance acts Chemical Brothers, Hot Chip and Prodigy, and loads of DJ sets.
More rock orientated acts like Muse, Kings of Leon and Lost Prophets were also there, together with a number of good up and coming bands as well.
V isn’t perfect and is quite commercial, but for me having the festival on the Shropshire doorstep is a great thing and if you can’t find 8-10 bands you like during the course of the weekend then music festivals probably aren’t your thing
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Ankle deep in mud? Having a laugh aren’t you? You should’ve been in the dance tent at Glastonbury 1998 for the infamous poo tractor accident - KNEE deep in mud, and other brown substances!
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hit by bottles of wee, mud, unable to get car out of carpark cause of mud (at £10 a day to park) girl in front just weeing on me in crowd, Amy unable to remember her words as so off her face…..Laugh ?
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Caz have you ever actually been to a festival before-brighten up! I camped the whole weekend and had a great time, yes it was muddy it always is. Everyone knows it will be and is prepared for that. The car park was a bit of a disaster. Left late Sunday night and saw no sign of a steward or anyone to help people out off the mud BUT as it was a festival and the festival spirit was still high everyone was getting out of cars and helping each other push cars out of the mud. Had a great time and everyone i went with did too! Muse were AMAZING!!
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If you want a good, clean concert and a tarmac car park with stewards - try the NEC…
V rocked!!!
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V was awesome, i left about 12 on monday out of the car park within a hour… who cares about the mud when your watching great bands like the verve, kings of leon, stereophonics and muse in the same weekend! bring on V 09!!!!
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Hardly great bands are they?
If you want GREAT bands you have to listen to any of the following
Led Zep
Guns N Roses
Metallica
The Feeling
Hot leg
The Darkness
INXS
Garbage
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
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Gotta take objection to The Feeling in that list, Y Mab - wimpy!
But nice to see the mighty Hot Leg get a mention . . and don’t forget that The Darkness, minus Justin, are now the rather splendid Stone Gods.
My perfect festival:
Rush
Led Zep
Queen
Kiss
Genesis
Journey
AC/DC
Deep Purple
Iron Maiden
Muse
Pink Floyd
Yes
INXS
Bruce Springsteen
Rod Stewart
Billy Joel
Elton John
The Who
The Answer
The Darkness
Black Stone Cherry
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heavens Basement
Ted Nugent
Gotthard
Status Quo
Peter Frampton
Judas Priest
. . . although not necessarily in that order!
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forget v its just a pop concert, why not lend some coverage to a festival that actually happened in shropshire with shropshire bands like farmer phils…
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yeah and how old r u? im 21 listening to todays charts, yes led zep are a great band but come on how many in that list are together still!!!!
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Well, actually (if you include a few line up changes like Queen & Paul Rodgers and only two original members of The Who being left) virtually EVERY ONE on my list!
And I’m 45 (first gig was Queen in ‘78), quite happy about the fact and also quite happy to listen to newer bands when they deliver the goods (Muse, Black Stone Cherry, The Answer etc), but I am depressed by the quality of a lot of young bands . . . how many still will be around in 30 years?
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All the bands at V suck. You’ve all got pants taste.
Warm regards,
Me.
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Guns n Roses are still together
releasing new album in Spetember “Chinese Democracy”
Led Zep are touring again next year
INXS are still going but with a new front man for obvious reasons
The only band I mentioned not going are
Nirvana
again for obvious reasons but
Foo Fighters are worthy replacements
Mr dave Growl stand forward
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i just give up on this site now…… all everyone wants to do is moan and puts me in rubbish moods all the time!
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While V is never going to have the diversity of bands festivals like Glastonbury has, or the “rock” background of the Leeds/Reading or Donnington festivals, it doesn’t have bad line ups.
This year if you liked older bands there were Squeeze, Pogues, Stranglers, Echo and the Bunnymen and Richard Hawley.
If you like pop then Girls Aloud, Sugarbabes, will young and Estelle.
Indie bands included Ian Brown, Shed Seven, Charletons, Verve and the Twang
Dance acts Chemical Brothers, Hot Chip and Prodigy, and loads of DJ sets.
More rock orientated acts like Muse, Kings of Leon and Lost Prophets were also there, together with a number of good up and coming bands as well.
V isn’t perfect and is quite commercial, but for me having the festival on the Shropshire doorstep is a great thing and if you can’t find 8-10 bands you like during the course of the weekend then music festivals probably aren’t your thing
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Never been to a festival
But do go to watch bands / artists I like play live : )
” listen to what you like; like what you listen to “
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Stereophonics a great band?!
I just fell off my chair with laughter!
I’ve not laughed that much since I found out Tim Westwood was white.
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Craig, don’t take it so seriously! It’s all good banter :-))
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