Wild in the country

Saturday was travelling to Stevenage (the duller cousin of Milton Keynes) for the Renaissance festival, Wild in the Country. Whether this negative feeling was picked up by the karma car park police or not, we received a parking ticket – curse you traffic warden . The rest of the Underworld supporters club were preparing themselves normally in the Holiday Express hotel with rounds of bar drinks.

Scheduling Underworld after Sasha & Digweed was, agreed in the majority, a crap idea. Having to wait 4 hours listening and shuffling through a ploddy, progressive set was quite boring especially with the crap weather. A lot of us wanted to guarantee our places within the tent so didn’t try the other headline tent as well as the downpours which nearly short-circuited the sound/visual crew and equipment. We therefore missed all of Justice, Hot Chip and 2manydjs. What we did see of Justice was their nosebleed squeaky antics with no crowd atmosphere and Hot Chip getting a bit more reaction. When Underworld did come on, the tent gradually got more packed and reduced dance space to shuffling and hands-in-the-air moments. Halfway through the set, some of us needed some breathing space and left for more space at the rear.

After the Knebworth mud-fest, I wasn't really looking forward to Sunday and preparing myself for leaving to single bedsit, no TV, campus life of the University of Sussex.