Contemplate this; its 1970 your on an island with 600,000 other hippies and your about to see the likes of Supertramp, The Groundhogs, Procol Harum, Chicago, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Doors, The Who, Free, Jethro Tull and Jimi Hendrix just to name a few. I think that would make my face fall off with excitement.
Sadly though its 2009 and the hippy vibe has gone; O2/Nokia/Virgin/Some Mobile phone super bastard has hired a school field to sell phones to people through the power of The Ting Tings! Yay!
Now don't get me wrong Neil Young and the Pixies are there but both acts are old enough to pre date the mobile phone and you would think it would be pssible for someone new to come along with the ability to headline.
The music festival has been ruined, I urge you to watch the IOW Festival in 1970 if you haven't just to learn what its all about. I plan to go to End of the Road festival again, the possibilty of Devandra Banheart is to good to miss. However if your after a new phone its probably not the place for you.
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I've been watching some of the footage over the weekend and its been pretty shocking so far, I am looking forward to seeing some neil young though.
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