*** Isle of Wight Festival Fanviews Here 6/23/12 ***

dimitrispearljam wrote:

Peasant Tents wrote:

I hope not Mr D...

Heard it a lot in 2010.... It's a good version but I'd rather hear fuckin up....or mother....

or Fatal.... I'll stop now or I'll loose my Sunday morning!!!

dimitrispearljam wrote:

i guess arms aloft will no be played alot out of uk

i prefer it than listen just breathe in every show..

Yes - I agree with that --- but prefer less covers

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.

Just back home in Scotland from the fest - first time seeing them and thought it was outstanding! Hope it gets released as a bootleg...

satansbed wrote:

YoxallManchester wrote:

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

Olivavu wrote:

Some good reviews there.

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.

Great show.

Any video of "Rain" yet?

YoxallManchester wrote:

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!

markbushy wrote:

Olivavu wrote:

Some good reviews there.

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.

A lot of talk about Reading but I was at Leeds that year and it was awesome. Did nobody else go?!?!

slimjamie86 wrote:

I was at this show and it was probably the worst complete Pearl Jam show this Millenium.

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...