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£ 45 ? They can take a running jump at that price.............

£ 45 ? They can take a running jump at that price.............

I had a weekend on the Crawl as well.....managed to blag some weekend VIP wristbands for the Roundhouse, so we managed to see The Yeah Yeah Yeahs there who were great, then it was off to Koko (with a brief stop to see Madness playing on top of a double decker bus !!) for The Whip (who took the place to pieces, was really impressed by them) then Echo And the Bunnymen who played an absolute stormer of a set. Saturday saw us see Little Boots (minus the big hair she was sporting at Night and Day last month - the new album promises to be a corker judging by the way the songs sound live - Stuck on Repeat is a stone cold pop classic in my books) - then after a fruitless queue to get in to see Billy Bragg at The Dublin Castle, we got into the Electric Ballroom without too much trouble to see Joy Formidable who really impressed me - their album is free to download from their website. We then wound our way back up to the Roundhouse to catch Kasabian, who, well....were Kasabian. They play to the crowd and every tune turns into a beery sing along anthem. The singer's horrible starry top (think Joe Bloggs circa 1989) didn't QUITE hide his expansive gut.....there's a career for them as a Primal Scream tribute band if they want it. An ace weekend, decent weather and I'd go again, but only with the all important Roundhouse wristbands that meant we didn't have to queue for ages to get in.

They are a bad heavy metal band who have sold their soul to Kraftwerk and come up with two blinding electro tunes by accident. Saw them at Glastonbury and it was like watching Rick Wakeman play King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table....for 45 minutes - the last ten minutes when they play Kids (or mime to it, as they did then) and Time to Pretend barely make up for the twiddly nonsense that has gone before...and I'm bloody sick of the Soulwax remix of Kids as well, heard it 3 times at The Warehouse on Saturday and at the Neon Neon show last night.

Lamb on the Jazz World stage on Friday afternoon was one of the best things I have ever been lucky enough to witness - an hour that I will cherish for a long time. 2ManyDjs might not be the hippest names to drop but on the Saturday night, they blew roof off the Dance Stage East with their astonishing lightshow and backdrop as seen at the Academy three weeks ago. Other highlights for me were Doves, The Dead Weather, The Big Pink, Ladyhawke and the truly amazing comeback by Blur. Currently sat at work counting the days to next year......when the weather is good, Glastonbury is quite simply a little piece of heaven dropped down onto Somerset.