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Was there with my wife too. I’m not much of a fan of PJ, but she is so we went along. Weather was great, and we got in easily enough. Lots of water points, which was handy. First moan was that we couldn’t find stage times anywhere and we arrived to find that we’d already missed The Murder Capital, arse. The rest of the acts were pretty mediocre, not really up to scratch at such a big event, but with the exception of October Drift on the smallest stage, who were superb. I was really disappointed with Pixies, tbh. The first 40 minutes were pedestrian and it wasn’t until the last 20 minutes that they woke and actually made some fucking noise, which is why people used to like them.
PJ - much better than I was expecting, as I only know about 4 songs of theirs. Eddie still has a great voice, but he was clearly pissed, which was a bit shit seeing as he had 30,000 people who’d paid to watch him. We watched it all from a fair way back as my wife isn’t great with crowds, but the sound was pretty good and the screens did a job.
They even had secure bike parking. It wasn’t as bad a day as I thought it might be, but I still thought that October Drift were the best band of the day.
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Murder Capital are an odd one - good first album, gigged hard to support it, then nothing. Even now, years later, they're still playing that album.
They're fucking irritating live anyway - saw them a few times and bassist and singer are such 'look-at-me' wankers it really spoils the music.
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The set times annoyed me too, they released them on the morning on the app which I used but at the site had minimal stands with the stage times.
We were disappointed that La Luz ended up with Covid so couldn’t get over from Seattle.
Sounds like I might have been a bit to into it to notice Eddie being pretty far gone. Unfortunately think it’s how he’s operated for a while as didn’t feel much different to when I saw them years ago.
For Pixies, as I say was with my mate who absolutely loved them so every song they were singing along and vibing with. Think we might have been in a very lively part of the crowd who had energy for everything which also helped.
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Had a great time yesterday. Pixies only had an hour slot but they did the hits very well so everyone was pleased.
Pearl Jam were excellent too. Played pretty much everything I wanted to hear and finally got the see them play Jeremy so I’m content.
Only annoyance was how big the premium ‘Golden Circle’ section at the front was, we were as far forward as could be against the general admission barrier and were at least 50m away I reckon. Kind of destroyed the crowd vibe when we’re all going at it with a bit of energy and you look forward to see people who are standing in a load of space at the back of the premium area, especially when they’d turn around an wave at us. Also didn’t help that any time any of us got exited and started to actually jump around and start a pit the G4S security goons would rock up and start flashing torches in our faces and shouting at us the calm down. Almost as if putting a big barrier that far back from the stage at a Pearl Jam gig was a bad idea, of course people are going to go a bit mad whenever they play anything from Ten.