{"id":135,"date":"2007-07-11T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/multiple-music-menageries\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:05:57","slug":"multiple-music-menageries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/multiple-music-menageries\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Music Menageries&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been away the last few days at T in the Park, a 2 and a bit day music festival at a disused airfield in Scotland. Its been going since 1994, and this has been my second year going. Luckily this year I brought my camera, so as a result I have some photos and also some terrible videos (which I&#8217;m not going to show you) due the fairly heavy bass at this concert killing (or at least maiming) the small mic on my old camera that I use&#8230;<br \/>\nThe first evening (the Friday) had a few bands. This is the first year that there is music on the Friday, so it was only a small amount, but there was some.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Bloc Party\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/775206279\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1227\/775206279_01f04265ef_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nI ended up catching Lily Allen, The Coral and Bloc Party. Although the Arctic Monkey&#8217;s were headlining, they are a terrible band and don&#8217;t really deserve to be watched&#8230; The weather on that day was pretty dire, causing some fairly large mud pits and mosh pool as opposed to a mosh pit&#8230;<br \/>\nThe next day I saw such acts as<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Arcade Fire\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/775207087\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1111\/775207087_674d210f5e_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Arcade Fire,<br \/>\n<a title=\"Albert Hammond Jr. 2\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/775210411\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1061\/775210411_8457318610_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><a title=\"Albert Hammond Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/775210975\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1198\/775210975_f0fff4537f_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAlbert Hammond Jr.,<br \/>\n<a title=\"Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/775207611\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1019\/775207611_c6147b9efc_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars<br \/>\n<a title=\"Brian Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/776085036\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1121\/776085036_913404dd8d_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a title=\"Brian Wilson 2\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/776083316\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1123\/776083316_b37bb70da9_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nand the legendary Brian Wilson. I happened to be at the front for all of Brian Wilson&#8217;s set, so had an awesome view of the stage, and also of Razorlight&#8217;s Johnny Borrell being asked to leave from sitting at the front, in front of the barriers&#8230; tee hee. Brian Wilson played pretty much all of the Beach Boys classic songs, and even played Johnny B Goode. He had an awesome backing band, and was generally just brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>The weather got better thru the weekend, and by Sunday it was blazing hot and sunny!<br \/>\nI saw such acts as The Cribs,<br \/>\n<a title=\"Avril Lavigne\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/776083936\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1113\/776083936_c348a69eb2_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAvril Lavigne, Ocean Colour Scene, Interpol, Max\u00efmo Park and<br \/>\n<a title=\"Kasabian\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14875418@N00\/776084452\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1432\/776084452_c5102de09f_d.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nKasabian.<\/p>\n<p>Overall though, despite the huge volume of mud present everywhere, it was a brilliant laugh, and I have already booked next years tickets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been away the last few days at T in the Park, a 2 and a bit day music festival at a disused airfield in Scotland. Its been going since 1994, and this has been my second year going. Luckily this year I brought my camera, so as a result I have some photos &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/multiple-music-menageries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Multiple Music Menageries&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}