2009 Highlights

[andyblack]

i wish i'd seen this for the amusing nature of it alone

the bloke getting wrestled is the erstwhile and always appearing leicester music lover declan guiney

the photographer hopping around is one mr david wilson clarke!!

[Marshall]

Lowlights were the general conduct of some of the young uns at night (oh it's so funny to go shouting through the quiet/family camping area at night...how we laughed when you failed to wake our children )

[jrb]

My Top 5 for music

1. The Filthy Dukes - Dance- yeah!

2. Ash Gunwald - Aussie Blues

3. The Jim Jones Revue - Little Richard meets the Faces via the Pistols

4. Kingsize - Sunday afternoon Ska Spot - every year please

5. Beautiful South - Paul who??

Top 5 "other"

1. Breakfast at Lansdowne

2. Cocker Hoop at the Ale Bar

3. Brendan Burns

4. The Walls Pasty van had no customers!

5. The Hall itself is a first class venue/all the staff are great.

5 Disappointments

1. Sell-Out to Bulmers (no decent cider on site like previous years)

2. Bon Iver should have been inside (IMHO)

.....can't think of any more!!

[Completewasters]

Lowlights were the general conduct of some of the young uns at night (oh it's so funny to go shouting through the quiet/family camping area at night...how we laughed when you failed to wake our children ) and the general lack of recycling by festival goers...how difficult is it to pick up your cans and cups and take them to one of the many recycling bins 10M away? Why use the toilet to dump your rubbish when there are bins right next to them?

Edited August 17, 2009 by Completewasters

[nerans]

My Top 5 for music

1. The Filthy Dukes - Dance- yeah!

2. Ash Gunwald - Aussie Blues

3. The Jim Jones Revue - Little Richard meets the Faces via the Pistols

4. Kingsize - Sunday afternoon Ska Spot - every year please

5. Beautiful South - Paul who??

Top 5 "other"

1. Breakfast at Lansdowne

2. Cocker Hoop at the Ale Bar

3. Brendan Burns

4. The Walls Pasty van had no customers!

5. The Hall itself is a first class venue/all the staff are great.

5 Disappointments

1. Sell-Out to Bulmers (no decent cider on site like previous years)

2. Bon Iver should have been inside (IMHO)

.....can't think of any more!!

[David Wilson Clarke]

1) Monotonix

2) The The Hurley Burley staff randomly breaking into a dance routine.

3) Múm

4) The friendliness of staff and festival goers

5) maybeshewill

[Completewasters]

I guess I should add some highlights of my own, im what was my 5th SSW volunteering and working for Complete Wasters.

musically (i must have missed many great acts)... but in no particular order

1. the sounds of imelda may i could hear from behind the tent where i was sorting some bins.

2. the deap people (na'im must hold the record from playing the festival in different bands - uncle

frank, fatal star as well as deap people)

3. the last 15 mis of emmy the great

4. 5 minutes of you fellows of all souls

5. beardyman controlling the main arena audience

general

1. richard haswell having to try to quell the boos after easystar allstars

2. the sound of monotonix singer doing 'the jump'

3. the zutons lamenting the passing of the charlotte (i also enjoyed the way he said this is the biggest gig we've ever played... in leicester!)

4. playing with walkie talkies, over

5. not being quite as tired as previous years (although still knackered)

lowlights -

1. flyering (its an arse to have to collect them off the floor - bloody st entienne had someone flyering for chrissakes). EDIT - its not allowed, but we for one will tolerate if flyers are handed to people as longs they're not left on tables.

2. bulmers* (a huge amount of unexpected glass for us to deal with, and the staff were unhelpful)... i'm sure those of you raving about the cider would have been just as happy drinkiing out of cans

3. our inability in this digital age to collect enough film pots to cope with number of smokers (if anybody has seen any other effective solutions to problem of fag butts we'd be grateful.

4. the inability of biffa to deal with wooden cutlery

5. not realising we needed a recycling point in the area of the village opposite pieminster and Lechyd Da

* jrb... my understanding is they are not likely to return next year... of course 'selling out' ultimately means cheaper tickets and indeed that the festival is able to go ahead

Edited August 18, 2009 by Completewasters

[andyblack]

2. the deap people (na'im must hold the record from playing the festival in different bands - uncle

frank, fatal star as well as deap people)

[Completewasters]

na'im cortazzi : the summer sundae years.....

ist : rising stage 2005

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/summ...otos-Ist5.shtml

fatal star : rising stage 2007

uncle frank : musician stage 2008

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnifran/3178907103/

plus, fatal star, uncle frank and the deap people have all played the fringe.

[butchwade]

This year I was mainly enjoying:

The Lightning Seeds

The New Beautiful South

The Airborne Toxic Event

Broken Records

Mr Plow

Kingsize

The Jim Jones Revue

Out Of Karma

[andyblack]

What was he doing in 2006 - the lazy bastard!!!

[lua]

so many highlights and will list more as I start to return back to normal! but how good was the free bulmers cider? I know you was only supposed to go over once (or once per day) but i visited many times and kept going over to a different person after I'd rubbed the stamp off! even the security on the gate said hello to me and laughed everytime I went through.

[Debbi]

I have to say, I don't think I have ever enjoyed myself quite as much as I did this year!

Result.

My top 3, without doubt.

1. Teitur - I knew he was going to be special, but i think I've totally fallen in love. It was just the most stunning set. Very open, very honest.. and what a lovely bloke!

2. David Thomas Broughton - (sorry Sean) I'm still speechless. Seriously. Anyone who missed this, missed something really quite special. Myself and the Sister were bawling like a couple of babies toward the end. Veh powerful stuffs.

3. The Jim Jones Revue - What can I say?? Pure. SEX.

[Tomisme]

For me, the highlights were:

Musically...

1. Frank Turner - only recently got into him and he was awesome!

2. The Lightning Seeds - brilliant sing-a-long set.

3. Beardyman - Did a great job on the main stage and is truly amazing to watch live.

4. Kingsize - the most dancing I did all weekend, but so hot in that tent...

5. Easy Star All-Stars - perfect on a sunny Summer Sundae afternoon

Other...

1. As has already been said, the weather

2. The food is always a delight at SSW. There's not enough days to eat everything!

3. The cleanliness of the toilets despite there only being about 12 for what must have been a few thousand people.

4. The atmosphere cannot be beaten. So laid back and friendly.

5. My friends - there was a good mix of newbies and old hands and it all combined together to make a top weekend.

Disappointments... few and far between.

1. Pizza Express instead of wood fired pizzas. I was looking forward to one of those.

2. Idiots during the Lightning Seeds.

3. Missing the balcony dive!

4. It's over too quickly.

5. It's ages til next year.

Edited August 18, 2009 by Tomisme

[Kaybee]

Highlights:

Frank Turner - how has he never been on my radar before? And best crowd atmosphere of the weekend too IMO.

Imelda May

The Deap People

Easy Star All Stars

Tommy Womack and the Dissenters

Ross Sutherland at Phrased and Confused

MC Ray Peacock in the Comedy tent, ripping into a dad who had brought two young kids in - very, very funny

The weather

Trashy Blonde at the Real ale tent

New site layout, especially the Garden

RichardH announcing the Joy Formidable and getting their name wrong

Disappointments:

Oi Va Voi - just didn't light my fire, and after I'd told EVERYONE to see them, pah

Saturday mainstage feeling a bit samey

No pitchers at the cocktail bar

Ranking Junior keeping his shirt on - bloody killjoy.

[Tomisme]

RichardH announcing the Joy Formidable and getting their name wrong

Edited August 18, 2009 by Tomisme

[Gabs]

Highlights

Frank Turner because I love him a bit

The weather because it held up all weekend

Mystery Jets - great to have them on after last year

Silent Disco - lots of fun on the first night

The crazy guy going around with his ghetto blaster - he was my favourite

Lows

Missing Monotonix

The Airborne Toxic Event clashing with Frank Turner

[lua]

1) Airborne Toxic event

2) joy formidable

3) woodpigeon's rendition of Abba cover 'lay all your love on me' with Michachu(?) woman - absolutley beautiful , made me cry!

4) Monotonix - for anarchic performance art and energy

5) sunshine!!

6) silent disco (first night)

7) friendly atmosphere

not so good...

1) move of silent disco to rising tent - too light inside to get into it

2) the move of the rising stage to the top field - can't blat between easily

3) herbal things...uh oh....

[Marshall]

The crazy guy going around with his ghetto blaster - he was my favourite

[Gabs]

I was going to mention him! what was that song he was playing? something about "I wanna be a gay......DJ" he was hilarious! I saw him on monday morning standing by the gate playing the song laughing to himself like a mad man! I wanna hear that song again!

[andyblack]

That did make me chuckle as well...

[swimmingbadger]

Other great mispronunciations/errors included Her Name Is Carla,The Breakaways and The Dickyknees!

[rseamer]

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3) woodpigeon's rendition of Abba cover 'lay all your love on me' with Michachu(?) woman - absolutley beautiful , made me cry!

[Debbi]

ha yeh, he played the chorus then yelled "rewind! bo selecta" and played it again and again. My mate's got a video of him somewhere. Mad, but very amusing.

[Kaybee]

The crazy guy going around with his ghetto blaster - he was my favourite