Let’s rock, baby!

So Rammo and I ventured to Belgium for 4 nights of Euro-festival at Rock Werchter….and a great time was had by all.

Being the old men we are we only had 2 nights camping and spent the last 2 in a hotel in Leuven.

Top 10 band’s I saw in reverse order of awesomness:

10. Damian Rice

Much better than I was expecting. I thought it would be your all whiny stuff but he’s obviously got a bit of a harder edge in his live shows.

9. Beastie Boys

The Beasties would have scored a lot higher were it not the fact that i was more concerned with staying alive than listening to the set. The pyramid tent turned into a serious mosh-pit and i only managed to last about half and hour before retreating from the fray.

8. Keane

Unchallenging MOR blandness. The big singalong coruses work well on the main stage. I had much fun abusing Fat Tom to the bewilderment of the tennie Euro-types.

7. Kooks

Good set given a bit of edge because they seemed pissed off, probably because they had a shitty early afternoon slot and none of the Euros seemed to know any of the songs.

6. Kaiser Chiefs

Typically energetic performance from Ricky Wilson and the Kaiser’s knock-about anthemic tunes are perfect for the Euro-festival scenario. Ruby became a bit of a festival standard (except changed to ‘Timmy’ for some reason).

5. Arctic Monkeys

Songs are genius, performance was pretty good. The majority of the Belgium crowd seemed a little bit uncertain about it all.

4. Killers

Really professional, great catalogue of songs, the crowd were up for it.

3. Bloc Party

Really good. Great live band. Me and the Ram entered the mosh pit for this one and much fun was had by all.

2. LCD Soundsystem

Dissed the Chemical Brothers to see this lot, and I wasn’t disappointed. Really awesome set, great atmosphere in the pyramid tent.

1. Faithless

The closing act of the festival. Fucking awesome..