The Oxegen Awards
Rather than write a huge piece of rubbish about the Oxegen Music Festival that could be ignored by everybody, I have decided to post my thoughts on it in the form of awards, that could also be ignored by everybody. But it may be slightly more entertaining. Anyway, I had a great time, saw some great stuff and some rubbish and here's the lowdown:
Song of the Festival:
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Quote of the Festival:
Dave Grohl: "Get off my fucking stage!!!"
The Queens of the Stone Age award for being Queens of the Stone Age:
Queens of the Stone Age
The Specsavers award for spotting me in the crowd twice:
Josh Homme
Coolest band of the Festival:
Alabama Three, who performed the theme from the Sopranos, Woke Up This Morning
Solo/Improv of the Festival:
QOTSA - No One Knows
T-Shirt of the Festival:
The Schfifty Five T-Shirt
The Jack Black award for epitomising rock spirit:
Mick Pyro, singer with Republic of Loose
The Stereophonics memorial award for dull tour-ending headliner:
Foo Fighters
The Franz Ferdinand award for being so complacent as to put no life into their music:
The Killers
Most Hyped while still being utter crap band of the Festival:
Director
The Sonic Youth award for ignoring musical theory in favour of feedback and noise:
The Longcut
The Too Popular To Have Enough Room for Me in the Tent Award:
James Brown
Slowest Bus Journey in the History of Festivals:
3 hours to travel the three miles from the festival to the far side of Naas
The What Are We Doing On The Main Stage award:
The Frames
Game of the Festival:
Rating passers by on how many beers are required to do them
(Quotes from this... "4!", "12!", "6 for you, 8 for your friend, 3 for the pair", "Agh! Keg!!!", "Woah, a non-blonde one!", "Yeah, you think you're a two, but you're not, you're a six", "4 blue WKDs and a Smirnoff Ice! (young lady in schoolgirl skirt and fishnets)")
Insight of the Festival:
Kevin: "We're giving all these scores but if any of them with a score under eight asked us straight out we wouldn't say no, would we?"
Lifesaver of the Festival:
The six pints of orange juice I bought on Sunday morning
Festival of the Festival:
Oxegen 2005
Well, I'm too tired to continue, maybe I'll post more later, maybe a real post, maybe nothing, we shall see. Bed time has finally arrived.
Song of the Festival:
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Quote of the Festival:
Dave Grohl: "Get off my fucking stage!!!"
The Queens of the Stone Age award for being Queens of the Stone Age:
Queens of the Stone Age
The Specsavers award for spotting me in the crowd twice:
Josh Homme
Coolest band of the Festival:
Alabama Three, who performed the theme from the Sopranos, Woke Up This Morning
Solo/Improv of the Festival:
QOTSA - No One Knows
T-Shirt of the Festival:
The Schfifty Five T-Shirt
The Jack Black award for epitomising rock spirit:
Mick Pyro, singer with Republic of Loose
The Stereophonics memorial award for dull tour-ending headliner:
Foo Fighters
The Franz Ferdinand award for being so complacent as to put no life into their music:
The Killers
Most Hyped while still being utter crap band of the Festival:
Director
The Sonic Youth award for ignoring musical theory in favour of feedback and noise:
The Longcut
The Too Popular To Have Enough Room for Me in the Tent Award:
James Brown
Slowest Bus Journey in the History of Festivals:
3 hours to travel the three miles from the festival to the far side of Naas
The What Are We Doing On The Main Stage award:
The Frames
Game of the Festival:
Rating passers by on how many beers are required to do them
(Quotes from this... "4!", "12!", "6 for you, 8 for your friend, 3 for the pair", "Agh! Keg!!!", "Woah, a non-blonde one!", "Yeah, you think you're a two, but you're not, you're a six", "4 blue WKDs and a Smirnoff Ice! (young lady in schoolgirl skirt and fishnets)")
Insight of the Festival:
Kevin: "We're giving all these scores but if any of them with a score under eight asked us straight out we wouldn't say no, would we?"
Lifesaver of the Festival:
The six pints of orange juice I bought on Sunday morning
Festival of the Festival:
Oxegen 2005
Well, I'm too tired to continue, maybe I'll post more later, maybe a real post, maybe nothing, we shall see. Bed time has finally arrived.