Start wearing purple

The wonderfully entertaining Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, originally uploaded by Rev Stan.

Took this at Get Loaded in the Park yesterday. It's been a while since Mosh and I went to a music festival. The desire to spend hours getting to and from a glorified field, queue for chemical toilets and listen (coz you rarely get to see anything when you are my height) to bands you love for half an hour sounding shit because it's too windy for the sound system has strangely worn off.
But this was Clapham Common a mere 20 mins walk/bolt home and there were some good bands playing so we thought we'd give it a go.
There were times I loved it (down at the front jumping up and down to the fab as ever Gogol Bordello) but there were also times when I hated it.
The queues, the shit food, the warm drink, the scrum for the loos, the way you didn't stand a chance of enjoying the music unless you were somewhere near the stage but as the day wore on, down the front attracted more and more pissed up twats who's idea of a good time was to push each other around and jump on each other so that you were half watching the band and half watching to see if an elbow was coming towards your head.
And no one told me you had to go in fancy dress, I haven't seen such efforts since the Oakham Guide and Scout Carnival 1982. It's a shame my camera battery died.
Still I was brought back to Clapham with a bump when someone threw a tartan picnic blanket on the stage during Supergrass.
And it was only a 20 minute walk home.
A few more pics at www.flickr.com/photos/revstan