Supine on the Astroturf!
GOOD things about the Rip It Up festival: seeing our Scandi/Nordo friends - Ville, Hanna, Erika, Per, Therese, Kasper, and lots of other friendly faces; a backstage area that was an enormous indoor field of Astroturf; seeing Action Biker, Kissing Mirrors and Cats on Fire in immediate succession; playing to an adoring crowd of drunk young Swedes in fashion wellies who threw Barbie dolls and waved bewigged mannequin heads on sticks at Dickon.
BAD and just plain ODD things included: 23 hour day; accidentally eating moose burgers; Ryanair losing Tom's pedals and his clothes; not washing; not sleeping; and the TVPs "gig"... which was easily the worst performance I ever saw, and culminated in DT's complete transformation into Father Jack as he sat drooling at the Hammond and howled "DRINK!!!!"... it's not like he actually played a SONG at any point. Who the hilariously off-key blonde onstage behind him was, who didn't appear to know any of the TVPs catalogue but who soldiered through their 9,000 hour set, we may never know.
Not forgetting, white wine in orange juice cartons:
Dickon and Rachel have already filed their accounts with much photo and video evidence, so I shall contribute my one picture from the festival. I feel it stands alone.
