Lucky Soul » festival http://www.luckysoul.co.uk Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:07:10 +0000 en hourly 1 It wasn’t our fault… http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/it-wasnt-our-fault http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/it-wasnt-our-fault#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:05:00 +0000 admin http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/it-wasnt-our-fault
http://www.nme.com/news/festival/37895
http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2008/z008-declared-worst-festival-ever
http://www.channelu.tv/default.asp?sec=3&articleidx=2090
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3603599
http://www.gigwise.com/news/44411/fans-demand-refunds-as-zoo8-is-called-worst-festival-ever
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7493040.stm

Our experience wasn’t so bad, although it was a struggle to get any money out of the promoters. We heard all kinds of rumours, such as Mark Ronson being paid in pound coins.
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]]> http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/it-wasnt-our-fault/feed 0 I love music, and I love festivals http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/i-love-music-and-i-love-festivals http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/i-love-music-and-i-love-festivals#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 13:41:00 +0000 admin http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/i-love-music-and-i-love-festivals
My friend Matt decided to have his stag weekend at All Tomorrow’s Parties vs Pitchfork, at Camber Sands, so I got a note to let me out of band practice, and joined 23 other lads to terrorize the bowlie kids. We had a cracking time. I didn’t see that many bands, what with the venue being indoors on the hottest weekend for ages. And the fact that we were mostly drinking at the chalets, and playing a weird Norwegian stick game (which we kept winning – although we didn’t understand the rules, so we may have been cheating).



The first night, Matt was persuaded to wear a Chewbacca costume (although he didn’t take too much persuading), and the next night someone produced a pink panther suit for him.

The picture gives you a flavour of what happened when the singer of Les Savy Fav spotted it – there are more pictures on flickr
In amongst all the carnage, I learned a few things this weekend:
  1. lots of bands are full of men with beards
  2. lots of bands have swearwords in their names
  3. lots of bands have multiple drummers
  4. the keyboard player from The Hold Steady looks suspiciously like Super Mario





  5. ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon is coming back into fashion for some reason, possibly connected with the success of Vampire Weekend
  6. “if you shove a pink panther suit on a bearded fat man, you just can’t go wrong”
  7. I have a new keyboard hero, Joel Robinow of the fantastic Howlin Rain
  8. you can have a lot of fun drinking tequila from seashells
  9. you can have a lot of fun playing the drinking game we invented.
here are the rules:
  1. take several bottles of clear spirits, such as vodka, gin, tequila, sambucca, plus some water
  2. pour some of each into a selection of shot glasses, while the players aren’t looking
  3. ask each player to pick a number, then they have to drink the shot down in one without sniffing it first
I’m not sure what to make of all this, but I thought I’d share it with you.

Malcolm


p.s. hello and thank you to everyone I met and talked nonsense to, especially Stuart, Marc the ironing board surfer, and Mike from Howlin Rain
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