despite the V Festival's geographically close location to Tawakalnistan (just down the A51) I won't be attending. I'm sure it must be haram in some way, and it's all far too noisy and littery and full of young people wandering around dropping beer cans and gyrating. I see Mozza is playing though.

Well, I can safely say you missed out then. It was absoloutely fantastic; great music (except for Girls Aloud, but they were easily avoidable and you don't really go to see them for the music anyway) and a brilliant atmosphere. They were expecting 300,000 people between the two sites and I can easily believe that there were 150,000 people there with us, especially when everyone started singing at once. I'm still having a little difficulty hearing...

V Festival? I thought that was about leg wax or something, hmm....

I've been reading the reviews in the local rag; it is one of the better festivals for music, i must say; anything with the Dandy Warhols and Morrissey in the line-up must by definition be good. If i was a bit younger and less used to my creature comforts, I wouldn't have minded going, but I'm far too long in the tooth these days and I'd look like a sad old man "hangin' out wid da kids"

Girls Aloud? haven't they died a death yet? waaay past their sell-by date for a manufactured band.

sadly our local rag prefers to concentrate on the arrests for drugs and the traffic offences, rather than the music.