V Festival 2011 Weston Park, South Staffordshire

We woke up in Weston Park, South Staffordshire for day 2 of V Festival.

 Adam took his wardrobe to the dressing rooms.

 And Big G went through his personal cleansing routine.

 We had about 10 hours to kill till the gig and we had to try and stay sober. Adam decided to catch up on what was going on in the world.

 And Greyham went to the canteen for some gruel. I have no clue what it was he was eating.

 Last year at V we had had some snaps taken of us with some curry for a book called "love food hate racism" or something and they had some of the snaps up in the canteen. Loads of other bands and famous types are in the book too.

 Maggot and Mike hung out by the bins for a bit.

 Then it was time to go and have a walk about the festival ground.

 And meet some of the nice people who were up for a weekend of partying.

 K T Tunstall was on.

 And I managed to maker her say Clunge.

 It wasn't raining which was nice.

It's amazing how many people wanted to have a photo with a sign that said clunge. 

Some people even had Clunge written on them.

This girl was 7 feet tall.

These girls liked clunge.

And these boys loved clunge.

We had lost the rest of GLC but we had a great walk around and it's always nice to meet the festival goers.

Before we went back to the other side I gave this guy the clunge sign, it was the last I saw of it.

We hung out with Dynamo and he did some magic for us.

We were still tying not to get too drunk. 

Maggot played the smallest mouth organ ever to try and get his mind off the free booze mountain that was in the tent next to our dressing room.

Mike went to get some food and decided on cheese and mini eggs.

And Nikki Grahame came to hang out with maggot.

Then these girls came over and we gave them some placards.

Big G got Amy Winehouse out and had a go on her (by the way the scooter is called Amy Winehouse, really, it is a long story one day I will explain, it use to belong to her but there is more to it than that........ Lets just leave it there.)

Any way, it went dark and these two nut jobs we gave the placards too attached themselves to us. One had her face painted like a tiger and the other had some pen on the left side of her face, that should tell you something about what they were like. 

Turns out they worked for Easy Jet.

It was 10 o'clock and we hadn't got drunk. Well we hadn't got really drunk.

We went on and smashed the show.

The crowd were amazing.

It was a proper good gig.

After the gig we got it together we went and hung out back stage and got on it.

The last thing I remember was Greyham asking this dude if he knew where Adam Hussain was.

Unfortunately the dude didn't know who Adam Hussain was and probably never will.

About 20 minutes later Greyham didn't know who Adam Hussain was either.

V Festival 2011 Hylands Park

We had traveled from Bristol after the massive gig at Start The Bus. It was a heavy night.

We got it together and went to find the dressing rooms.

On the way there we passed the tents giving out free stuff.

Mac make up gave me some stuff for the missus, Firetrap wouldn't even let us in there tent,
but Sony gave us free headphones which was well nice of them. Thanks Sony.

 We had a nice dressing room which had fruit and chocolate in it so Maggot and Mike were both happy.

 We spoke to some of the nice people from V festival.

 And then it was cocktail o'clock!

 After the cocktails it was time to hit the crowd and go for a walk about with our rather well made placards.

Just then it pissed it down.

 But we made a good fist of it.

 People were trying to get cover from the rain everywhere, people were even hiding under and in the bins!

 Still we met some nice people on our walk.

 People were still up for a party even if there was a light shower.

 But I think most people had gone to the Strongbow tent which was banging.

 It was nice to see a light police presence watching over us too.

 We decided to head to the tent.

 We were playing in here at 10:35pm.

 After we got back and the sun had come out it was time for lunch.

 They do some good food at V Festival.

 Maggot had a 3 course meal. I had 7 courses.

 Then it was time to chill and have a few more cocktails.

 It went dark and we got tipsy. 

We went to the stage and found that they had a problem with the sound and we had to cut the set time, unsafe.

 We went on and smashed it. Everyone's favourite robot Titan came on for a dance too.

 It was a good rave up even though we had to cut a song or 2.

 We were given some Champagne to celebrate.

 By 3am it had turned Greyham a bit fruity.

We got in the bus and rolled on to day 2 of V Festival in Stafford.

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Start The Bus Bristol 19th August 2011

We were heading off for a fun weekend of gigs starting in Bristol at Start The Bus.
Mysti had brought all his washing with him.

We were given a room above the club to use as a dressing room.

And then we were taken back downstairs to the club to have some tasty burgers.

After the tasty burgers we went back upstairs and Big G found a secret room. In the secret room was a TV from the 70s and Big G's favourite ever game. He was well happy.

Mike Balls didn't play the game.
The burgers seemed to have an odd effect on him as he found loads of old clothes and put on a dress.

It turned out we were in a place that had until recently been a vintage clothing outlet once robbed by Peaches Geldoff.
I found a rather nice pair of red trousers and as Freddy said "pick it up, put it on".

We then did tricks off the steps on Amy Winehouse (Amy Winehouse is the name of the scooter, it used to belong to Amy Winehouse.........it's a long story).

After a couple of hours the party boys came back from the pub singing the theme music from Morecambe and Wise.

Soon after that we found a toilet.
It was getting close to stage time.

We had a quick practice of the GLC "stage craft" and we were off.

To stand outside for 15 minutes while they looked for the key to the door that lead to the stage.

Then we did Britain's hottest ever gig.

We decided we would do as many songs as we could, I think we did 18 or something like that.

It was awesome, Start The Bus is a great gig, and we had a stage invasion.

It was well hot.

Back in the dressing room, forward slash ex vintage shop, Maggot found the towels although they were a tad on the small side. Still he managed to have a shower and wash and dry all his important areas.

Then we cleared out and said goodbye to some friends who had come to the gig and we got on the bus bound for V Festival.

Massive respect to Start The Bus.