Just got back to London and don't have to work 'til tomorrow so here are some initial thoughts:
This was my 7th show and second festival (Lollapalooza 07?). First gig out of the US (used to live there).
I'll never complain about a PJ setlist and really don't understand why anyone would. I thought this one was appropriate for the venue - especially Rain and Arms Aloft. Festival sets always contain a lot of hits, but it's more fun that way because a lot of the crowd would not get into the more obscure songs that we PJ fans love so much.
The crowd was pretty into it... I was right at the front on Mike's side. So close that we made eye contact a few times and also close enough to touch Eddie when he came down into the crowd during Porch. Got a guitar pick thrown my way but looked up just in time to see it hit the girl beside me in the face and then fall into the mud. Never found the pick, but did find a £5 note.
Mike's solo during Even Flow was awesome and he gave a little taste of Little Wing at the end of YL - crowd loved that. He was running around as usual, keeping the crowd going.
Rain was awesome and I'm sure a lot of Festival Goers in the back appreciated that, and also the respect payed to Joe Strummer. I was secretly hoping for a WHO cover but no complaints after hearing Rain!
It was cool to see the whole bang play Setting Forth... I wasn't expecting that, but then I don't really follow the setlists on here very closely. Maybe they've been playing it for a while now. I've only seen Ed play it solo. Sounded great.
Blood was very high energy and a great addition for the more seasoned PJ fans.
Weather was actually pretty good for most of the Festival... just Thursday that sucked. Mud and camping were a bit of a mess but par for the course for a UK Festival. I didn't have any problems getting there or back and it didn't affect any of the music. We avoided the main shit show of traffic on the way in by taking a water taxi instead of a bus. Means being on a boat in the wind and rain for 20 min and walking for 20 min instead of a dry bus, but it also kept me from spending 5 hours in the middle of the night on a bus w/ a bunch of angry people. What I am trying to say is that it was the lazy/uninformed people that had a shit time getting to the Festival.
Other acts that were excellent:
Tom Petty, The Boss, The Darkness, The Vaccines and many many more.
Overall it will be one of the most memorable shows I've been to because of how close we got. A lot easier than trying to score front row tickets to any other PJ gig.
Can't wait to see Ed in London!
That's all for now. Maybe will post some videos at some point. Peace!
What I am trying to say is that it was the lazy/uninformed people that had a shit time getting to the Festival.
What an absolute load of shit and I take great offense at that.
How are you supposed to do it if you have a camper van other than driving there then given you can't stick that on a water taxi?
Every single year prior to this, it's taken no more than 30 mins to get from the ferry port to the camp site. On Thursday it took 10 hours and the chaos was caused by poor preparation from the organisers (it had been raining for days, why weren't the metal tracks already down, why did the lorries of sand not get delivered until the queues were already blocking the island solid etc).
How dare you suggest its down to being lazy or uninformed you arrogant arsehole
Festival sets always contain a lot of hits, but it's more fun that way because a lot of the crowd would not get into the more obscure songs that we PJ fans love so much.
The fans do love the more obscure stuff more than the general public, but even at PJ shows they cause huge dead spots. Hell, the deadest I've ever seen a crowd was their big "hit" from Backspacer.
What I am trying to say is that it was the lazy/uninformed people that had a shit time getting to the Festival.
What an absolute load of shit and I take great offense at that.
How are you supposed to do it if you have a camper van other than driving there then given you can't stick that on a water taxi?
Every single year prior to this, it's taken no more than 30 mins to get from the ferry port to the camp site. On Thursday it took 10 hours and the chaos was caused by poor preparation from the organisers (it had been raining for days, why weren't the metal tracks already down, why did the lorries of sand not get delivered until the queues were already blocking the island solid etc).
How dare you suggest its down to being lazy or uninformed you arrogant arsehole
Well I guess an apology is in order. I didn't mean to come off as an asshole (and now I realize that I have) - I was only making an observation.
This was my first time to IOW, or any festival in the UK for that matter, and I was able to obtain enough information before the show and on the way down there to know that driving was not going to be a good option. I wanted to drive, but didn't, for this specific reason.
I was also able to figure out how to get to the festival w/o having to rely on the clogged island roads. I guess when I said what I did, I was mainly speaking about the people who sat in busses all night long. They added to the problem when they could have simply gotten to the campsite another way, then complained for the rest of the weekend. I guess I just got tired of people saying how unorganized everything was. I didn't feel that way at all.
But I agree, preparations should have been made to prevent the car park mess. You were obviously in horrible situation, having nowhere to leave your van once you figured out what was happening and likely nowhere to sleep if you had of found a safe place to leave the van. I shouldn't have made such a large generalization, seeing as the people who did decide to drive had no other option but to sit in the traffic all night long. Please accept my apology.
Hey, look, no worries - apologies here too. As you may be able to tell, I'm still pretty annoyed about the whole thing, and was letting off a bit of steam, not your fault so apologies again.
When we eventually got there, some idiot directing traffic put us in the main car park, despite us asking twice if he was sure that's where the campervans go. Naturally we got stuck. He was not a popular person.
Saturday night went a long way to making up for it
Second show for us on this tour...
Amazing. Untitled/MFC left me with a shit eating grin
It's a shame the festival was overshadowed by the poor organisation from the promoters but hey ho, Petty, Pearl Jam, Biffy, and the boss were all top notch.
There was a few absolute waste of space people down the front by us, but they soon moved away when they realised we were all there to have fun. On the flipside some random guy hugged and sang with us during elderly woman which restored my faith in humanity
Overall after sitting in a car for 10 hours and seeing the manchester 2 setlist come through realising we may have made a huge mistake, the weekend's performances really made up for it... roll on Berlin!
Sky Arts have apologised for only showing 3 PJ songs (and 4 Springsteen songs) after heavily advertising both in the lead up to it's coverage.
A spokesperson said: 'We’re doing everything we can to bring you the best of the headline acts, but understandably, the artists’ permission must be granted for all of our festival coverage.
'This includes what we show, and when we show it. We do what we can to secure this, but ultimately we have to respect their wishes as to what can and can’t be done.'
Now funnily enough, Jo Whiley attempted to explain this towards the end of the show on Saturday, and said something to the effect of 'Pearl Jam have said we can show them, so we'll be going live shortly..."
Now firstly, im not sure why the band wouldn't want it to be shown? It's a festival, so it's not as if showing more songs would affect ticket sales. And secondly, they didnt go live. They showed the final encore on a delay, for the last 20 minutes of their six hour coverage.
Perhaps somebody else knows better than me why the channel didnt think they were allowed to show much, then clearly realised they had permission, and then preceded to show....not much.
Sky Arts have apologised for only showing 3 PJ songs (and 4 Springsteen songs) after heavily advertising both in the lead up to it's coverage.
A spokesperson said: 'We’re doing everything we can to bring you the best of the headline acts, but understandably, the artists’ permission must be granted for all of our festival coverage.
'This includes what we show, and when we show it. We do what we can to secure this, but ultimately we have to respect their wishes as to what can and can’t be done.'
Now funnily enough, Jo Whiley attempted to explain this towards the end of the show on Saturday, and said something to the effect of 'Pearl Jam have said we can show them, so we'll be going live shortly..."
Now firstly, im not sure why the band wouldn't want it to be shown? It's a festival, so it's not as if showing more songs would affect ticket sales. And secondly, they didnt go live. They showed the final encore on a delay, for the last 20 minutes of their six hour coverage.
Perhaps somebody else knows better than me why the channel didnt think they were allowed to show much, then clearly realised they had permission, and then preceded to show....not much.
It is because the band want some control over the quality of the content put out, so basically a member of the bands sound crew has to give the okay that it sounds alright to put out.
Thank you PJ for a great Saturday night at the IOW festival, made the mud all worth while. I know that some people have said that it's wasn't the best PJ show ever, but I dont think festivals are ever an easy task. We were at the front and the atmosphere was great, met some great people. You Italian guys were a pleasure to rock out with, 22 shows I think! What was really nice was later back in the campsite when our neighbours said how much they had enjoyed their first ever PJ show, Eddie had a major part in it I think as they were all female. Overall a great experience during a weekend that certainly brought out the best in British resilience. Gotta love the weather??? Bring on Copenhagen and the lovely Danes....
Sky Arts have apologised for only showing 3 PJ songs (and 4 Springsteen songs) after heavily advertising both in the lead up to it's coverage.
A spokesperson said: 'We’re doing everything we can to bring you the best of the headline acts, but understandably, the artists’ permission must be granted for all of our festival coverage.
'This includes what we show, and when we show it. We do what we can to secure this, but ultimately we have to respect their wishes as to what can and can’t be done.'
Now funnily enough, Jo Whiley attempted to explain this towards the end of the show on Saturday, and said something to the effect of 'Pearl Jam have said we can show them, so we'll be going live shortly..."
Now firstly, im not sure why the band wouldn't want it to be shown? It's a festival, so it's not as if showing more songs would affect ticket sales. And secondly, they didnt go live. They showed the final encore on a delay, for the last 20 minutes of their six hour coverage.
Perhaps somebody else knows better than me why the channel didnt think they were allowed to show much, then clearly realised they had permission, and then preceded to show....not much.
It is because the band want some control over the quality of the content put out, so basically a member of the bands sound crew has to give the okay that it sounds alright to put out.
it is all about quality control
They showed loads of Professor Green and I can't imagine anyone in thier right mind would suggest that sounds ok
It is because the band want some control over the quality of the content put out, so basically a member of the bands sound crew has to give the okay that it sounds alright to put out.
it is all about quality control
They showed loads of Professor Green and I can't imagine anyone in thier right mind would suggest that sounds ok
yeah but i can't imagine Professor Green caring that much about quality control haha
It will have to go a long way to matching Reading 2006 though. That was SPECIAL.
Anyone go to both of these..?
yeah i was at reading 06 and was there on saturday. I can't really compare the two as it's just too different, i'm too different but... I will say the crowd at the Isle of Wight has its own quality, reminded me of the Nijmegan crowd in 2007.... pretty chilled out but still completely into it. I actually think the band are more relaxed and appreciative when such a huge crowd stays 'in control'. Seemed to me that there are a lot more pot smokers at the Isle of Wight than Reading! Matt Cameron really appreciated it and Ed spent a lot of time down at the barrier during porch, half the song.
Anyway the show was great, highlights for me; opening with unthought known, rain (even though i didn't know it was a beatle cover, shame on me) but for all you who are looking forward to hearing it, it was fucking great, setting forth in full band mode, blood, arms aloft, a really beautiful just breathe and untitled into MFC.
Big thanks to Ross for waiting for me to arrive in the campsite (the jungle... fuck me it was disgusting). We had to move and re-pitch our tent on the saturday morning because we had pitched on the emergency access route around the perimeter of the site... fucking ball-ache but they sent us to a field with loads of space and virgin grass, even though by sunday morning it was just a bog.
I left sunday morning, petty and pearl jam rocked, shame I missed bruce and band of skulls but wanted to catch the footy... enough said about that.
It will have to go a long way to matching Reading 2006 though. That was SPECIAL.
Anyone go to both of these..?
Saturday was amazing but comparing the three festival shows I've been to (reading 06, hyde park 10, and IOW) I'd say it was better than Hyde Park but not quite as good as Reading. I guess the memory of Eddie's opening speech followed by interstellar overdrive/corduroy will live with me forever.
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The show was great and the band looked like they were loving it, think they were appreciative of the shitty weather/travel people went through to see them. Funnily enough the festival was re-organised to late June not to clash with the Queen's Jubilee weekend and so ran when Glastonbury (not on this year) would normally run hence the adverse weather.
Particularly loved the old songs: even flow, why go, blood. Really wanted Animal or Dissident but not gonna complain :-)
I was about 3 rows from the front, got pissed off with the sky cameras getting in the way from where I was stood. Glad they had fixed the broken big screen on the left from Tom Petty the night before (who was magnificent btw).
Thought I would just upload a quick photo of the exclusive tshirt design for the festival which I love...
I like the poster which is now also available on here to members, makes me laugh though as it was £25 at the merch stand and supposedly on sale here but if you had it shipped to the UK you would only save about £2 ($3) bargain indeed !
Sky Arts have apologised for only showing 3 PJ songs (and 4 Springsteen songs) after heavily advertising both in the lead up to it's coverage.
A spokesperson said: 'We’re doing everything we can to bring you the best of the headline acts, but understandably, the artists’ permission must be granted for all of our festival coverage.
'This includes what we show, and when we show it. We do what we can to secure this, but ultimately we have to respect their wishes as to what can and can’t be done.'
Now funnily enough, Jo Whiley attempted to explain this towards the end of the show on Saturday, and said something to the effect of 'Pearl Jam have said we can show them, so we'll be going live shortly..."
Now firstly, im not sure why the band wouldn't want it to be shown? It's a festival, so it's not as if showing more songs would affect ticket sales. And secondly, they didnt go live. They showed the final encore on a delay, for the last 20 minutes of their six hour coverage.
Perhaps somebody else knows better than me why the channel didnt think they were allowed to show much, then clearly realised they had permission, and then preceded to show....not much.
It can't be down to PJ...I mean BBC3 Showed the whole first set plus a bit of the encore of Reading 06!
It will have to go a long way to matching Reading 2006 though. That was SPECIAL.
Anyone go to both of these..?
Saturday was amazing but comparing the three festival shows I've been to (reading 06, hyde park 10, and IOW) I'd say it was better than Hyde Park but not quite as good as Reading. I guess the memory of Eddie's opening speech followed by interstellar overdrive/corduroy will live with me forever.
The band played well, as ever, at Hyde Park - but the crowd was more aggressive than usual and the sound levels were terrible.
Reading was emotional and just plain special. For me, anyway.
Saw two of you ask about video for "Rain"....guess I'll be the third? It must exist, no? I've seen the small clip of it at the famous Pinkpop in '92, is it like that? Just a small snippet that leads into the next song?
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At the end Eddie introduced the band one by one, ill see if I can get this right....
Boom Gaspar
He had to get two work permits for this trip for Soundgarden and us, Matt Cameron
Mr Jeff Ament
You can call me Ed
Our fearless leader Stone Gossard
and he's all fingers, Mike McCready (who got the biggest cheer)
Crowd songalong with all three, so pretty knowledgeable all things considered.
Lennon/Macca camp couldn't stop them if they wanted, so long as they get the proper royalties.
Sha la la la i'm in love with a jersey girl
I love you forever and forever
Adel 03 Melb 1 03 LA 2 06 Santa Barbara 06 Gorge 1 06 Gorge 2 06 Adel 1 06 Adel 2 06 Camden 1 08 Camden 2 08 Washington DC 08 Hartford 08
This was my 7th show and second festival (Lollapalooza 07?). First gig out of the US (used to live there).
I'll never complain about a PJ setlist and really don't understand why anyone would. I thought this one was appropriate for the venue - especially Rain and Arms Aloft. Festival sets always contain a lot of hits, but it's more fun that way because a lot of the crowd would not get into the more obscure songs that we PJ fans love so much.
The crowd was pretty into it... I was right at the front on Mike's side. So close that we made eye contact a few times and also close enough to touch Eddie when he came down into the crowd during Porch. Got a guitar pick thrown my way but looked up just in time to see it hit the girl beside me in the face and then fall into the mud. Never found the pick, but did find a £5 note.
Mike's solo during Even Flow was awesome and he gave a little taste of Little Wing at the end of YL - crowd loved that. He was running around as usual, keeping the crowd going.
Rain was awesome and I'm sure a lot of Festival Goers in the back appreciated that, and also the respect payed to Joe Strummer. I was secretly hoping for a WHO cover but no complaints after hearing Rain!
It was cool to see the whole bang play Setting Forth... I wasn't expecting that, but then I don't really follow the setlists on here very closely. Maybe they've been playing it for a while now. I've only seen Ed play it solo. Sounded great.
Blood was very high energy and a great addition for the more seasoned PJ fans.
Weather was actually pretty good for most of the Festival... just Thursday that sucked. Mud and camping were a bit of a mess but par for the course for a UK Festival. I didn't have any problems getting there or back and it didn't affect any of the music. We avoided the main shit show of traffic on the way in by taking a water taxi instead of a bus. Means being on a boat in the wind and rain for 20 min and walking for 20 min instead of a dry bus, but it also kept me from spending 5 hours in the middle of the night on a bus w/ a bunch of angry people. What I am trying to say is that it was the lazy/uninformed people that had a shit time getting to the Festival.
Other acts that were excellent:
Tom Petty, The Boss, The Darkness, The Vaccines and many many more.
Overall it will be one of the most memorable shows I've been to because of how close we got. A lot easier than trying to score front row tickets to any other PJ gig.
Can't wait to see Ed in London!
That's all for now. Maybe will post some videos at some point. Peace!
What an absolute load of shit and I take great offense at that.
How are you supposed to do it if you have a camper van other than driving there then given you can't stick that on a water taxi?
Every single year prior to this, it's taken no more than 30 mins to get from the ferry port to the camp site. On Thursday it took 10 hours and the chaos was caused by poor preparation from the organisers (it had been raining for days, why weren't the metal tracks already down, why did the lorries of sand not get delivered until the queues were already blocking the island solid etc).
How dare you suggest its down to being lazy or uninformed you arrogant arsehole
The fans do love the more obscure stuff more than the general public, but even at PJ shows they cause huge dead spots. Hell, the deadest I've ever seen a crowd was their big "hit" from Backspacer.
Well I guess an apology is in order. I didn't mean to come off as an asshole (and now I realize that I have) - I was only making an observation.
This was my first time to IOW, or any festival in the UK for that matter, and I was able to obtain enough information before the show and on the way down there to know that driving was not going to be a good option. I wanted to drive, but didn't, for this specific reason.
I was also able to figure out how to get to the festival w/o having to rely on the clogged island roads. I guess when I said what I did, I was mainly speaking about the people who sat in busses all night long. They added to the problem when they could have simply gotten to the campsite another way, then complained for the rest of the weekend. I guess I just got tired of people saying how unorganized everything was. I didn't feel that way at all.
But I agree, preparations should have been made to prevent the car park mess. You were obviously in horrible situation, having nowhere to leave your van once you figured out what was happening and likely nowhere to sleep if you had of found a safe place to leave the van. I shouldn't have made such a large generalization, seeing as the people who did decide to drive had no other option but to sit in the traffic all night long. Please accept my apology.
Sorry to be a dick and ruin a good discussion.
When we eventually got there, some idiot directing traffic put us in the main car park, despite us asking twice if he was sure that's where the campervans go. Naturally we got stuck. He was not a popular person.
Saturday night went a long way to making up for it
Amazing. Untitled/MFC left me with a shit eating grin
It's a shame the festival was overshadowed by the poor organisation from the promoters but hey ho, Petty, Pearl Jam, Biffy, and the boss were all top notch.
There was a few absolute waste of space people down the front by us, but they soon moved away when they realised we were all there to have fun. On the flipside some random guy hugged and sang with us during elderly woman which restored my faith in humanity
Overall after sitting in a car for 10 hours and seeing the manchester 2 setlist come through realising we may have made a huge mistake, the weekend's performances really made up for it... roll on Berlin!
It will have to go a long way to matching Reading 2006 though. That was SPECIAL.
Anyone go to both of these..?
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Yes - I agree with that --- but prefer less covers
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Now funnily enough, Jo Whiley attempted to explain this towards the end of the show on Saturday, and said something to the effect of 'Pearl Jam have said we can show them, so we'll be going live shortly..."
Now firstly, im not sure why the band wouldn't want it to be shown? It's a festival, so it's not as if showing more songs would affect ticket sales. And secondly, they didnt go live. They showed the final encore on a delay, for the last 20 minutes of their six hour coverage.
Perhaps somebody else knows better than me why the channel didnt think they were allowed to show much, then clearly realised they had permission, and then preceded to show....not much.
It is because the band want some control over the quality of the content put out, so basically a member of the bands sound crew has to give the okay that it sounds alright to put out.
it is all about quality control
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They showed loads of Professor Green and I can't imagine anyone in thier right mind would suggest that sounds ok
yeah but i can't imagine Professor Green caring that much about quality control haha
yeah i was at reading 06 and was there on saturday. I can't really compare the two as it's just too different, i'm too different but... I will say the crowd at the Isle of Wight has its own quality, reminded me of the Nijmegan crowd in 2007.... pretty chilled out but still completely into it. I actually think the band are more relaxed and appreciative when such a huge crowd stays 'in control'. Seemed to me that there are a lot more pot smokers at the Isle of Wight than Reading! Matt Cameron really appreciated it and Ed spent a lot of time down at the barrier during porch, half the song.
Anyway the show was great, highlights for me; opening with unthought known, rain (even though i didn't know it was a beatle cover, shame on me) but for all you who are looking forward to hearing it, it was fucking great, setting forth in full band mode, blood, arms aloft, a really beautiful just breathe and untitled into MFC.
Big thanks to Ross for waiting for me to arrive in the campsite (the jungle... fuck me it was disgusting). We had to move and re-pitch our tent on the saturday morning because we had pitched on the emergency access route around the perimeter of the site... fucking ball-ache but they sent us to a field with loads of space and virgin grass, even though by sunday morning it was just a bog.
I left sunday morning, petty and pearl jam rocked, shame I missed bruce and band of skulls but wanted to catch the footy... enough said about that.
Great show.
Saturday was amazing but comparing the three festival shows I've been to (reading 06, hyde park 10, and IOW) I'd say it was better than Hyde Park but not quite as good as Reading. I guess the memory of Eddie's opening speech followed by interstellar overdrive/corduroy will live with me forever.
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Particularly loved the old songs: even flow, why go, blood. Really wanted Animal or Dissident but not gonna complain :-)
I was about 3 rows from the front, got pissed off with the sky cameras getting in the way from where I was stood. Glad they had fixed the broken big screen on the left from Tom Petty the night before (who was magnificent btw).
Thought I would just upload a quick photo of the exclusive tshirt design for the festival which I love...
I like the poster which is now also available on here to members, makes me laugh though as it was £25 at the merch stand and supposedly on sale here but if you had it shipped to the UK you would only save about £2 ($3) bargain indeed
It can't be down to PJ...I mean BBC3 Showed the whole first set plus a bit of the encore of Reading 06!
I went to Reading from 1999 until 2010 - and up until around 2005/6 you couldn't go anywhere without smelling weed.
Since then, it's all been Cocaine, Ecstasy and other drugs more popular with fashionable types.
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The band played well, as ever, at Hyde Park - but the crowd was more aggressive than usual and the sound levels were terrible.
Reading was emotional and just plain special. For me, anyway.
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As I said on Twitter "You know a crowd is s**t when Eddie Vedder sings the first verse of Betterman"
Pearl Jam acted like they didn't want to be there and I can't blame them either.
I never thought the words "Pearl Jam" and "Least favourite gig" would ever go together... But this is pretty low down on my list.
So the crowds at MSG, Hyde Park, all the dozens of other times that Ed has the crowd sing the first verse have been rubbish have they?
And as for the band acting like they didn't want to be there...