Daft crowding, Punk party

With sweet FA TV for Friday night we watched Creep on DVD borrowed from Kev. It's that British horror film based within the London Underground. Bit tame and slightly laughable in places with some gruesome bits thrown in for good measure.

Saturday was the Wireless festival at Hyde Park, London. Caught the end of Plan B, then watched CSS with their bland punky-rock-dance thing. Lead singer wore two rainbow jumpsuits screaming Thank you after each tune. There was only one or two other songs I liked apart from Death from Above.

LCD Soundsystem played well with Keira Knightly seen enjoying herself in the Very VIP section on the stage. Shame they ended on a monotonous instrumental and disappeared from the stage. Was happy taking photos until the giant inflatable ball came out and some bloke with 2 beers got knocked soaking us and camera. I don't think I'll take it to Knebworth as my sensibilities will ruin the experience.

Daft Punk came on with their trademark black curtain/veil of secrecy. It was good to see them a little closer than Global Gathering but could only last about 10 minutes as everyone scrambled pushing and surging forward to get a better look. Unless you had ankles and feet made of steel, there was no way you could dance or watch and enjoy yourself (unless we're getting too old for these type of gigs). Pushing to safer ground, we were able to find space without greedy space hogging sardine people pissing us off. Great set with slightly different remixing and some fresh visuals to keep the hardcore fans happy. Can't wait to get the live album and DVD.
Classic quote from Kerry when they ended was 'They're not coming back for an encore' when 3 minutes later they did with red-trimmed Tron-like outfits and blew everyone away for a second dosage. Didn't really get the photo results I wanted. Could be the lens, could have had better settings (still learning), could be just impossible to take good photos from that distance? There are better results on FlickR but mine will be up very soon.

Ended the weekend watching 28 Weeks Later at our neighbours (Harbour Lights). Great film without the Hollywood ending.

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