V Festival - Day One

Kula Shaker

Just heard a couple of their hits from the nineties whilst wondering around the festival site. Put a smile on my face.

We Are Scientists

Best part was when they came on to the sound of Harleys and cycling these little tricycles whilst wearing motorcycle helmets.

Magic Numbers

Very pleasant but didn’t blow me away.

Bloc Party

Pretty solid set from Bloc Party that got the crowd going early. Kele Okereke also was seen jumping into the pit at the end of the set. I didn’t see him again!

Beck

Beck was absolutely fantastic as usual. It started with a bunch of puppets who looked like the band, singing and playing mini instruments. The band then came on dressed as the puppets (or the other way round) and the puppets stayed there for the whole gig copying everything the real band did. There was even a puppet cam and a five minute video of the puppets backstage chatting up the girls, getting ready to come on stage and singing Karma Police. Very funny. There was also a part of the show where Beck played some acoustic numbers whilst the band eat at a table brought on for the occasion. The band then played the cups, plates and cutlery as if they were instruments.

Radiohead

Very tight and equally good. Fantastic way to finish Day One. We even got a listen of Creep. Thom Yorke was doing his crazy dancing like Ian Curtis from Joy Division and they also played three new songs that sounded very promising. The Play list was;

01 Airbag
02 2+2=5
03 The National Anthem
04 My Iron Lung
05 You and Whose Army?
06 Bodysnatchers
07 The Bends
08 Nude
09 No Surprises
10 The Gloaming
11 Paranoid Android
12 All I Need
13 Pyramid Song
14 Lucky
15 Just
16 Idioteque
17 Street Spirit

Encore 1:
18 A Wolf At The Door
19 There There
20 Karma Police
21 True Love Waits/Everything In Its Right Place

Encore 2:
22 Creep