The O2 Festival - Hyde Park
Posted by: Simon Matthews on 26 June 2006
A pretty well organised and laid out festival all things considered - the weather helping significantly!
Highligh for me was the Flaming Lips who played a tremendous set full of humour, surrealism, audience participation and not forgetting great music. Watching Wayne Coyne bouncing around in an inflatable ball in front of four 10 foot space men as the sun sets is never a bad thing!
I avoided Saturday as James Blunt is slightly less appealing to me than having my finger nails extracted by pliers.
Sunday was a good day as well. Although they don't have a great deal of variety to their sound, Depeche Mode offered up a very slick set with very clever visuals. The crowd went goth-tastically barmy and made sure the event ended with a bang.
Friendly, decent value and well attended. The footy result and the weather all adding to the mix nicely!
Highligh for me was the Flaming Lips who played a tremendous set full of humour, surrealism, audience participation and not forgetting great music. Watching Wayne Coyne bouncing around in an inflatable ball in front of four 10 foot space men as the sun sets is never a bad thing!
I avoided Saturday as James Blunt is slightly less appealing to me than having my finger nails extracted by pliers.
Sunday was a good day as well. Although they don't have a great deal of variety to their sound, Depeche Mode offered up a very slick set with very clever visuals. The crowd went goth-tastically barmy and made sure the event ended with a bang.
Friendly, decent value and well attended. The footy result and the weather all adding to the mix nicely!