A slightly less eventful festival than normal but excellent music and a few suprises for me. We arrived on the Wednesday and settled in for the first two days. Made some friends. Had a few beers. Got chatted up. The usual...The Friday kicked off and I saw nothing of note until Cold War Kids, who were excellent. Very well suited to playing in a tent - into which they attracted plenty of people on this blisteringly hot day. This band has really grown on me over the last year and I have gone from indifferent to a fan. This gig only helped to concrete that feeling. From there again nothing that interested me until the Lost Prophets, who I don't like but did a great set. My day was topped off with NIN who played an absolute stormer and ended with a 50,000+ sing along to "Hurt". Amazing light show (as usual) and just still awesome. I have stayed away from Year Zero for fear that his second "off the drugs" album may be a poor one. Thank goodness for mistakes like that. The day was finished by the Smashing Pumkins who were as flat as a compressed fart. I saw their "final" gig at Wembley years ago and this is quite simply put not the same band. The new material felt very weak and the setlist had a few gems in but I could not sense any life even behind them.
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