There’s at least one person in Hyde Park today who appreciates the tough job us poor journalists have to carry out for you, our dear readers.
The title of James most recent album, ‘Living in Extraordinary Times’, couldn’t be more relevant.
Kevin Rowland won’t forget his Reading appearance in 1999. The Dexys Midnight Runners star was booed off stage and pelted with bottles of urine after wearing stockings and a dress onstage.
Now a venue staging productions for a New York theatre company back in the late seventies Studio 54 was a popular nightclub at the height of the disco era.
Whilst the National Anthem was being played a few miles away at Lords to celebrate England’s world cup victory a tweaked version was being blared out across Hyde Park.
A few hours ago Sir David Attenborough addressed the masses when he took to the stage announcing “Now this great festival has gone plastic-free. That is more than a million bottles of water have not been drunk by you in plastic. Thank you! Thank you!”
It’s Sunday, late afternoon/ early evening and four high profile singers are nursing chronic hangovers…No, tell you what – make that five!
Rewind a few months ago and Oli Sykes didn’t hold back sharing his thoughts on rock.
When Destiny Hope Cyrus used to stage house parties studying at Williamson County’s Heritage Elementary School there was probably an overcrowded kitchen, a stained carpet and a couple getting off with each other upstairs in the locked bedroom upstairs.
What were you up to at the age of nineteen? Far be it for us to stereotype but were enjoying the delights of drinking, skinning up and fitting in the university lecture whenever you had the chance?
‘What about an app which collects all the accessible data from venues around the country?
The interior of the late singer/ songwriter’s house in France hasn’t changed since March 1991. Furniture legs daren’t tread to make new imprints on the carpet, cupboard doors haven’t exercised their hinges and the taps are probably too tight now to moist those dried up sinks.
For the majority of the crowd facing at Cool Britannia 6pm on a Friday meant sitting in front of the TV during the nineties watching Chris Evans introducing T.F.I Friday.
