Spent today at the V Festival. Heavy rain was forecast all day, but by the time I got there it stayed dry, much better than some other years.
Tha bands I caught were:
- Beck – brilliant
- Radiohead – looked great, played great but the sound quality was a bit less than it should have been. There was no punch for songs like Paranoid Android. I was reminded of listening to my old tape player with the ‘Tone’ knob turned down.
- Keane sounded very nice, but were not inspiring and I was glad the set ended 2 minutes early.
- The Go Team – Never heard of them before. Really lively and enthusiastic.
- Echo and the Bunneymen – Didn’t know what to expect from these guys but they sounded really good.
- Kasabian – Only caught a little of this set. Sounded great and I think I missed out from trying to watch Radiohead. Certainly had a great raport with the audience.
If the people at V really want a decent festival then concentrate on providing a good listening experience instead of squeezing extra stages into the venue. Channel 4 should be livid that the stage they sponsered was pretty much ruined by the bass bleeding over from the Bacardi tent on the right and from the Strongbow tent on the left.
Despite my moans I really enjoyed the day.
Spoon is a very good friend of mine has had his first public performance of his new band “The Uprights”.