Anyone know of any good photo uploading sites? Will put them on facebook eventually but want to put up a few for the forum - photos are over 5MB each so imageshack won't allow them!

Try Tinypic?

http://tinypic.com/

Well then! Got home about two hours ago and this is the first chance I've had to read all your posts and write one of my own, so, some thoughts and reminisicing...

>> My girlfriend and I arrived around 12.30pm and before we could get to the stage Live Nation decided they wanted to interview me! The woman said I looked like a big Pulp fan - she must've noticed the t-shirt - so I talked bollocks for five minutes. I mentioned this forum but I don't think they'll use any of it...

>> When we did arrive at the front, it was fairly quiet, mostly young girls. We were on the right hand side of the ramp. The people around us were all nice enough. A couple of people attempted to move forward and in front of us towards Pulptime, but we managed to keep them at bay - I wasn't waiting eight hours just for some cheeky git to turn up and get past! 

>> I was very lucky enough to win one of the Barclaycard competitions - my name came up on the screen so I went off to collect a £20 lanyard (debit card) to spend on whatever I wanted! I later discovered I should've been given two of them - damn! - but I may e-mail Wireless to see if I can do anything about it. I used the one I received to buy one of the His N' Hers t-shirts, which is a lovely memento of the day. 

>> I didn't bring a camera with me, there was no point, I'd never have been able to keep it still, and it would have distracted me. I just wanted to enjoy the moment.

>> The other acts: Vintage Trouble were great and I'd like to hear more. I missed most of Devotchka (see above) and I was indifferent to Metronomy - it didn't help that I had some young teenage girl right behind me screaming 'I love Metronomy' every few minutes... The Horrors were just boring. Long dull songs and a singer who looked bored shitless and angry with a cameraman, throwing his mic lead round his equipment a couple of times. The Hives were the best - bags of energy, humour, exactly what the festival needed. I'd not seen them live for 8 years, so I was pleased to see they're just as they were! Following them were the terminally dull TV On The Radio who received a rather subdued response, but nothing like poor Grace Jones. I had to laugh - the people on the front all looked confused or bored. I thought she was brilliant, myself, because she was a real change of pace, and visually striking. She tried her best to get everyone going, and eventually won the audience over when she came down to the front during 'Pull Up To The Bumper' - I managed to shake her hand on her way round. She deserved a much better response, but I appreciate she was a very odd choice to support Pulp.

>> I'm agreed with Fuss Free about the Pulp setlist - they played everything from DC except Monday Morning and Pencil Skirt, and just three songs from HnH which really disappointed me. But Mile End was a great moment. Totally confused at the end when Jarvis indicated they'd be back for an encore in 15 minutes, when nothing happened and the security began to move us out. My girlfriend was lucky to grab a setlist though, and there was no encore on there... confusing. 

>> I was pretty calm until the intro started - then the realisation dawned on me: I was about to see Pulp live for the first time. And wow. Pink Glove was a real highlight - Jarvis came down the stairs onto the ramp and looked right into my eyes as he sang one of the lines... it felt like years... brilliant. If anyone recorded that I'll treasure it till the day I die 

>> The pushing and crushing - this really pissed me off, I'm afraid. Of course I expected it to be a bit rowdy, and being a big guy I just about managed to protect my girlfriend from the weight of the crowd, but it was really uncomfortable at times - Disco 2000 was mental -  but I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else but the very front, the atmosphere was electric. Sadly, there were about half a dozen young girls who had to be pulled out during the gig, it was that bad. I'm glad Leo is OK - I think I saw you at the front actually. A couple of people were also stretchered off too. It would've only taken a quick word from Jarvis to tell people to stop moving forward, to stop people being crushed against the barrier...

>> Sunrise. I was disappointed - not by the band, not by the song, but the crowd. People around me were singing all the DC-era songs throughout the gig, but when Sunrise came, nobody seemed to know it. They were all quiet! Was WLL that poorly-received? Just a load of fairweather fans, I guess. Such a pity, as it was utterly brilliant. I made up for their ignorance by singing along loudly and headbanging during the instrumental section 

>> Was lucky to see Sarah on the way out - sorry I couldn't stay to chat, but my girlfriend was tired and had sore feet, we just wanted to get back to the hotel. It was lovely to make your acquaintance though, and I hope you said hello to the others for me 

So yeah, a great day. I hope to be at Brixton - fingers crossed...

 

-- Edited by Pip on Monday 4th of July 2011 08:43:23 PM

Re the pushing, as you can tell from the picture I'm not a big guy so wouldnt have been responsible for any of it...but it wasn't any worse than I thought it would be. Usually at gigs you get the new material which calms the crowd down but every song was a hit (well, I guess stuff like Sunrise wasnt as popular), so it meant the pushing was more intense. I've been in worse gigs for that although at times it was quite hard keeping upright!

Time for another pic:

Another picture..

Pip wrote:

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 My missus has a big black bruise on her thigh, so I guess you were lucky! She was glad she was right at the front though - the things we do for Pulp eh? :)

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Pip. I think you and your missus might have been standing directly to the left of me. 

And Deebs and I were definitely rubbing shoulders. I have his fist-pumps on camera. I did not know this until after seeing Abs' group photo. 

Speaking of bruises, my missus had at least a half-dozen people lifted right over her. I was really worried that the guards kept fishing people out over her without letting her get out of the way, but in the crush there wasn't much I could do. She somehow managed to get through the show without injury, and proved quite the trooper. 

 

As promised.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPdvUaH8i8A

Sorry about the orientation and the finger-over-lens!

More to follow hopefully.

You can see the back of Pip's head I think in this!

-- Edited by SarahAWilson on Monday 4th of July 2011 11:15:09 PM

Sarah that video captures the atmosphere in the crowd near us brilliantly.

Pip, to maybe clear up the confusion about the encore that never happened I think I heard Jarvis joke at the end, 'See you all again...probably in about fifteen years'. Is that maybe where you took the fifteen minutes from?

Certainly most of the crowd stayed waiting for more and I'm sure the band would have happily played on but festivals like Wireless are so strict on timings unfortunately.

Well now im back to the normality and not a mobile phone qwerty keyboard, I can now write properly! Only got to see a few acts - which were good, and poor........

Poor - The Horrors (lead singer seems a right tosser), TV on the Radio were just dull......., Grace Jones.....yawn

Good - Cut Copy on the unwind stage - full tent, I have never heard of them - and when everyone in the crowd but for me and my mate were singing along and going bonkers I knew I have missed something down the line...... The Hives were just outstanding, the lead is a true frontman not quite to jarvis's standards but fuck they were amazing. Pulp were as good as their DC era hayday if not BETTER.

Finally back home after a very long megabus ride!

Firstly, I'll get the angry bit out of the way...

I got right to the front, in the middle at about 2pm and stayed there the entire day. At about 7pm quite a few girls started pushing through the crowd- they were Spanish or Italian, obviously this makes absolutely no difference to anything, I just say it so others who were down the front know who I'm talking about. Then one girl (wearing a Jarvis mask) pretends that she's ill and that she needs to speak to the bouncers just so she can push in and get a place at the barrier, taking the place of someone who had literally been there since half 12. She then starts repeatedly asking me (I'm right behind her) to let her friends stand in front of me, to which I obviously reply "no". And so during Pulp's set, as 'revenge' for not letting her friends through, she tries to get the bouncers to throw me out THREE TIMES by completely lying to them that I'm "kicking and punching" her, which is obviously insane. The bouncers don't do anything, but after the third time she says this I should at her "what the fuck do you think you're doing?!"- a bouncer sees me do this and then comes over and shouts at me, so I spend the rest of the gig absolutely terrified that if she says any other lies to the bouncers then they'll believe her and throw me out!

It very nearly ruined the gig for me- I really don't care how much of a "mega fan" someone is, how wealthy they are or how far they've travelled, no-one has the right to act like that just in order to be at the front of a gig.

Luckily it DIDN'T ruin the gig for me- Pulp were AMAZING even though they didn't play for long, I was RIGHT at the front and Jarvis looked me right in the eyes during Pink Glove when he was down on the catwalk! Mile End amazing obviously, Sunrise was an unexpected highlight for me. Very jealous of my friends Aunt who was backstage and at the after party as apparently she's friends with the Banks!

Tv on the Radio were amazing I thought, a proper radge set but class nontheless, Horrors new stuff is awesome, I can't believe how popular the Hives STILL are, Metronomy were quite good, Grace Jones was a bore for me personally but I can see why people would like her.

My friend Ross was saying he bumped into you lot at Bar Italia later on, too!

Uploaded all 6 now. Check out my Youtube channel if you want more videos!

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