had a blast yesterday at the wireless festival. it helped that you could get half price tickets if you were an O2 phone customer and then bypass the queues to get in. it had rained really hard several times in the morning, so we were expecting to get soaked but by the time we arrived the sun was out and there wasn’t a rain drop all evening and the ground was fine (note to self: under no circumstances wear wellies to a gig again as a) you are an embarrassment to your children b) you look a sad dad again – that’s twice in a week c) they are uncomfortable d) leaping around like a lunatic to daft punk is not as easy as it otherwise would be).

O2 customers could get access to the O2 blue room where you could get a deck chair and a splendid view of the stage so the first part of the afternoon was spent there (ideal for the old men) before venturing down the front for lcd soundsystem and daft punk. lcd were nothing like as good as earlier in the year when i saw them. their sound was poor but rather than engaging the crowd and focusing on the gig in hand they seemed more concerned with the levels in their monitors which was all abit tedious in the end and the last track just fizzled out in pathetic fashion. this was a big missed opportunity by them on a big stage. even so daft punk is playing in my house got a huge cheer for obvious reasons.

daft punk were simply brilliant. they put on a spectacle – this was the first time i had seen them. the crowd was rammed in and it was impossible not to spend the whole time surging around, dancing and leaping up and down to lots of anthemic tunes along with an impressive light show. all good fun…

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