Monday, 7 July 2008

The O2 Wireless Festival Sunday 6th July

Yesterday Sunday the 6th July I went to the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park. The festival has been running all week and I joined my friend Claire to enjoy some of the artists playing.
The weather however was much to be desired. It was so windy and kept raining on and off.
We arrived there at about 2.30pm, Claire and I headed to a lovely beer garden at first, ordered some food a lovely big jug of Moscow Mule.
We sipped on our lovely cocktails whilst the sun popped out a couple times and enjoyed chatting and catching up, although we were blown away on a few occasions.There was loads of entertainment and activities on yesterday , a number of different marquee’s , bars , food stands and various companies selling goods. There was even a tent doing Rock-a-okee which was very funny, you could go and sing a karaoke song but with a live rock band playing behind you ! It was very funny to watch and amazing at how well a lot of people sang.
Claire and I headed to the main stage arena and then watched The Goo Goo dolls, after that the Australian band Powder Finger came on, We also nipped away to a Marquee for cover from the rain and watched a Band called The Delays but I had never heard of them before, they weren’t too bad. Later on we were then joined by Joris and his two friends (oops can’t recall their names I have a memory like a fish when it comes to names !) The five of us then enjoyed more drinks and watched Ben Harper play on the main stage. At this point I think we were rained on a few times and I had to get out my sexy blue poncho !
During Ben’s performance I had a call and turned out that a friend of mine Justin and some of his friends were also at The Festival, and were really close by to where we were standing.So Justin and Djuri came over to say hi. As the evening progressed Claire, Joris and I headed over to Justin and his friends and we hung out together to watch The Counting Crows play.We were standing next to a cordoned off area where staff were working , doing lighting and sound etc….however there were some private porta loo’s for the staff. This area was being covered by three security staff. At a certain point in the evening I was busting for the loo as you do when you’re drinking all day and the thought of walking really far to go to the loo’s on the other side of the park becomes a very painful mission….
So it was really quite funny, Djuri and I were standing together and he was watching security and there was a brief moment where they all had their backs to us, so I jumped over the fence and used the private loo’s !
I was thinking ok when I come out they’re going to catch me….but I snuck out jumped back over the fence again and none of the security saw me ! Bonus :) I was so lucky and all my friends were laughing waiting for me to be taken away by security on my way out. Naughty Naughty :)
Anyway so I started something and a couple guys not from our group tried their luck and they all got caught and were whisked away by security !he he…. So I was rather lucky, soon after they placed a security Guard at the Loo's to stop us naughty folk from using them.

All is all the show was really great and I had a good laugh with my friends for the day.
Got in at a reasonable time last night and did have a mini hangover this morning but it wasn’t too bad. It was a fun day out.

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