Truck

Can'r find the Masks video, appears to have vanished from my favourites





An effing trek from Kington to Steventon, but worth it for the 'Artist and Entourage' wristband if nothing else. Although there were other else's. Heard the last four seconds of the band Masks (or maybe MASKS), which fulfilled the minimum requirment of hearing them for at least one second, being as they got me in free and all. Otherwise got to see half of Islet's set, I would describe it as impactive (!). The girl drummer/bassist/crazy howling lady was simultaneously Hott and terrifying, which is a confusing but charming combination, and they are probably the most comitted live band I've ever seen (including a moustache guy running through the crowd with a tambourine. Also saw Los Campesinos who were aces and managed to get the local Oxford tweens mega-pumped and crowd-surfing. There was also Blood Red Shoes, who were a bit lame and (apparently they've been told this before) need to recruit more members, and watching the lead lady play I felt like I was witnessing a catwalk show in which one of the models has suddenly started playing guitar. And Pulled Apart By Horses invaded the stage, which is all I got to see of them unfortunately, because I hear from multiple sources that they are 'the best live band in Britain'. Last but not least was were Veronica Falls, who were supposes to play about 3ish but got held up and ended up having to play an empty tent at 9ish. They were great, paranoid girl-garagey stuff, which would have been wonderful were it not for the drunken tween stage invasion, but still the band did their best to pretend it was an invasion in their honour, not a group of mentally handicapped morons looking down from a stage into a crowd of approximately half their number like they'd 'made it'. Great day out Truck, a very friendly festival. One negative issue; that health-endageringly HOT lime-pickle at the indian food stall. The second most painful experience of my life so far.