Secret 606 shows and beards

Hello :o)  There are a couple of things I wanna talk about but they shall just have to wait as it is Wednesday and tradition for Boredom Eats Away At Me is to blog my travels ;-)  But just before I do, I have to log something here so I don't EVER forget it!!!  Trina and I were discussing something on emails today and everytime I thought about this it made me laugh so I wanna write it here to remember it, and in a few years time I shall look back and think what the hell...............anyway please bear with me ;-)  The sentance was 'The beard did it with the candlestick in the library.'  (I don't wanna explain that just ignore this part of the entry ~ thank you xx )

Here's the part you need to concentrate on ;-)  So I left you at the end of watching the Killers at V Festival on the Saturday.............let's continue xx

Once that was over we decided to make our way back to the campsite, it was about 11pm by this point!! First stop though food and a drink!! Whilst we were waiting this arguing couple were stood near us. When we moved they passed us still arguing, it just amused me!! If I remember rightly there may have been talk about visiting the pub we had been in the night before, but people were tired so we just went to bed. We stopped off on the way back to the campsite so Wayne could get a blow-up mattress. It was funny to see him in the toilet queue holding onto that!! We made our way back to tent but got lost and met up with Corina and Maz also making their way back and getting lost. Between us all though we managed to find them!! Sarah and I headed bedwards not long after. Trina, Wayne, Corina and Maz kept talking for a while about Corina wanting to see Mika and how much she wanted to see Mika. She had also been going onto Trina about wanting to see Pink but she wasn't until the next day. The noise was horrendous, with people everywhere talking, laughing, you could hear music and then people making their way back to their tents. I did manage to get some sleep and with my suitcase out of the way it was much nicer to stretch my legs.

SUNDAY 19th AUGUST 2007

I remember waking up wondering and hoping that Trina or Wayne would come and wake us up soon as I was desperate for the loo, didn't wanna go on me own!! It had stopped raining by this point!! Everytime I heard a zip on a tent I thought it was them!! Eventually Trina came to the tent and said she was going to the loo, I didn't hesitate to join her. As usual there was a queue but it wasn't as far back as it had been the previous day and according to Trina it was actually a bit later timewise!! Whilst in the queue, we listened to this bloke's conversation behind us and he was talking about some of the bands that were playing for example the Kooks were headlining the channel 4 stage that night and he couldn't understand how they could headline as they only have one album. Then he said something about the Foo's playing a secret show. Our ears pricked up and this is the conversation: "Excuse me, what's this about the Foo's?" "Oh yeah, it was in the paper and on the radio all week about them doing a set under the name 606." "Sounds like a Dave sort of name" "That's the name of their studio," I said. Trina and I looked at each other and started to feel excited, we had to get back and tell Wayne, but the plan was to get drinks and breakfast for the others first. Eeek!!! We finally went to the loo, and made our way down to the burger van!! We couldn't believe it!! What if we hadn't have been in the toilet queue at that moment would we still have found out? This was a thought that was going to be ringing in our minds ALL DAY!! Also and I can't remember if this happened on the Saturday or the Sunday at some point when we were in the queue for the toilets in the morning some girl collapsed and it took ages for anybody to come and help her. It was ridiculous!!

With drinks and food in hand we went back and I remember Trina had coffee in her hand and tripped over one of the guidewires and spilt the coffee down someone's tent. We got back to our own tents and woke Wayne up with the news. He was excited especially after we had checked the programme thingy!! 606 on the channel 4 stage after the road to v winners. It did mean that we would miss the Proclaimers but Wayne didn't mind very much!! So we agreed that we should all get changed, keep it a secret, and make our way down there, even if it was still early!!

As I was getting changed was when my day went decidedly downhill. I found out that I had women's problems!! It was early and I was not prepared so I started freaking out!! Plus I was nowhere near any shops that would be able to settle my problems. I told Trina what had happened, she told me not to panic!!

Once we were all changed and ready for the day ahead, we made our way down to the stage, without Sarah who agreed that she would come down later!! It started raining again when we were waiting. I decided that I was no longer going to wear a white poncho and so as we had time I went to buy another one. I managed to get three in all different colours and cheaper than the ones we had brought the previous day. Trina and Wayne kept looking at hats too, which was fun. As we were walking along these two blokes had viking hats on and started doing battle with the horns on top. Their friend was taking a picture, it looked really funny. Those are the kind of moments that you only really see at festivals, I was thinking and wanted to remember everything! Yet again the fence was up, but we waited for it to be taken down. There were quite a lot of people and I assumed that they would be heading to the same place as us. I convinced Trina and Wayne that we had to go a different way to the channel 4 stage. The other way was far too muddy and if I slipped that would top my day off perfectly!! Eventually the fences were lifted again!!

We walked as fast as we could whilst most people, strangely enough ran towards the main stage!! Unfortunately it was just as muddy going this other way too but it turned out to be closer to the stage. We managed to get 2nd row which was just amazing to us!! That was until these stupid kids decided to go in front of us so we ended up in the third row. I didn't care, although I was bit miffed with myself as I had let the gap appear and didn't do anything to close it down!! But I was never gonna get this close to Dave again so I had to make the most of it!! We started talking to the couple beside me, who said that they had friends in Essex (the other park) and apparently the show was leaked down there and there were more people at the Channel 4 stage then there were at the main stage!! You had to feel sorry for the Proclaimers, I wonder if they knew that the foo's were on at the same time!! Whilst we were waiting for the Road to V winners they played videos and stuff on the TV screens again and those adverts didn't change/get any better!! What did make me laugh every time and I forgot to mention it before was that Hard-Fi had a new single coming out and every now and then there was a snippet of it played on the screens. When it finished the crowd around us would always keep singing for a second or two, it was very funny!! Empire by Kasabian was one of the videos played.

The Road to V winners were a band called Rosalita, although I was not aware of that at the time!! I thought they were quite good but by the 1st song they had Wayne hooked. It was a song called Art Attack and it was going on about Tony Hart and Morph etc.. They also had a song about somebody who runs a dating agency for the elderly. They were good and funny!! I made it a mission to find out more about them when I got home!!

After them the roadies came out to move stuff around and I had to laugh at the crowd around me. Because most of the roadies were wearing Foo Fighter jumpers, people were talking about it, for example the couple next to us who had moved on to talk to a couple in front. I was laughing at them because it had taken them that long to work it out. One roadie member was wearing a Probot jumper and I'd worked it out from that. (Probot was Dave's side line metal band!!) During this break and it was still raining by the way, they played the Kasier Chiefs I predict a riot video, that made me very happy!! After what seemed like ages, Dave and co walked onto the stage. Apparently when they did some woman was forcing her way past me, until Trina stopped her and said 'No'. The woman was like what? so Trina said 'I said no' and this person replied don't talk to me like that but she stopped where she was and spent the whole show with her camera just above my head apparently!! My view wasn't that bad, but towards the end it got EVEN better. Somebody moved and the girl next to me moved forward and so did I, ending up in the 2nd row. 2 rows back from Dave!! Amazing!!!!! Trina was happy when I moved too coz she got a better view of Taylor. They played an accoustic set some old stuff and some of the new stuff from the new album. Let's see if I can remember what they played: Big Me, Come Alive, But Honestly, See You, Cold Day in the Sun, Marigold, Skin and Bones, and I'm not entirely sure about the rest. It was so amazing!! We came away thinking the day wasn't going to get any better than that!! Wayne was practically jumping up and down he was so happy!! Sarah eventually managed to find us, unfortunately by the time she had made it to the field there were too many people for her to come down to the front with us. She wasn't amused when we went on about it for the rest of the day.

till next time xx

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