June 2004 Archives

Iggy and the Stooges arrived on to stage to very little fanfair and it was immediately evident that he'd been back in the gym again. I think the main standouts from his set is the fact that he didn't play any of his later stuff which most people today would know him for, such as Lust For Life or The Passenger, but rather stuck to the old stuff. Iggy's famous for crowd-surfing during the middle of his set but he took it one step further here. Rather than go out in to the crowd he got the crowd to clamber up on stage with him. Security tried their hardest to prevent it but sheer weight of numbers eventually got to them, although 1 guard, rather short-arsed, decided to do his own little Hitler impression and started frog-marching people from the stage area with arms shoved up their backs. It was quite funny standing on the sidelines watching some young kids, 14-17 years old or so that had shown no interest in the set suddenly jump up and start pegging it to the stage in a rather sad and pathetic effort to get on stage. Whilst he had the crowd on stage Iggy clambered off stage and went off in to the front of the crowd anyway. Looked like the head of security was about to have a nervous breakdown.

Saturday morning dawned cool and dry with a very slightly overcast sky; no real indication of the weather ahead. Spent most of Saturday morning pottering around doing nothing much. Colin and Scott decided to go and queue up about 10:00am ready for the main gates opening at 11:00am. We decided to leave it until closer to 12:00 and Scoot decided to try and get some extra sleep; apparently a group of revellers a few tents over had kept him awake all night. At 12:00 we made a move and headed off to the queue.

Well, the original plan was to set off at about 9:00am, unfortunately, Paul needed to go to Tesco so didn't get to John's until 10:40am.

I'm home; I survived, I got photographs, and I'll blog at some future point about it...

Suffice to say it was awesome...

This weekend is the Download Festival at Donnington.