The Long Line In - Excited Beverley Knight Fans. Photo: Torie Speyer
iTunes Festival blog:
- The view from Front of House
- DAY THIRTY-ONE: Kasabian and The Dead 60s
- DAY TWENTY-NINE: Duke Special and David Ford
- DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: The Maccabees and Goldspot
- DAY TWENTY-SEVEN: Jack Penate and Jamie Woon
- DAY TWENTY - SIX : Just Jack and Mr. Hudson and The Library
- DAY TWENTY-FIVE: Amy Winehouse, The Rumble Strips and Remi Nicole
- DAY TWENTY-FOUR Kano and Natty
- DAY TWENTY-THREE: Wir Sind Helden and Leash
- DAY TWENTY-TWO: Cherry Ghost and Air Traffic
- DAY TWENTY-ONE: Aqualung and Jamie Scott
- DAY NINETEEN: Beverley Knight and Raul Midon
- DAY EIGHTEEN: The Pigeon Detectives and The Rakes
- DAY SEVENTEEN: The Bad Plus and Rebecca Bakken
- DAY SIXTEEN: Ludovico Einaudi and Edin Karamazov
- DAY FOURTEEN: Ghosts and Paolo Nutini
- DAY THIRTEEN: Athlete and Tiny Dancers
- DAY ELEVEN: Editors and Good Books
- DAY TEN: Imogen Heap and James Wolff
- DAY NINE: Kula Shaker and Loney, Dear
- DAY EIGHT: Ben's Brother and Ash
- DAY SEVEN: Beardy Man, Mutya and Groove Armada
- DAY SIX : Good Shoes and The Go! Team
- DAY FIVE: Paul McCartney
- DAY FOUR: BRMC and Nine Black Alps
- DAY THREE: Travis and The Hoosiers
- DAY TWO: Justin Nozuka and Crowded House
- DAY ONE: Mika and Leon Jean Marie
- Welcome to the iTunes Festival Blog
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The view from Front of House
Date: 3 August 2007
"The one lasting memory I will have of the iTunes Festival is the T-shirt"
The one lasting memory I will have of the iTunes Festival is the T-shirt, not the one emblazoned with Ash, or some such similar beat combo but the front of house black and white job. The one that made the front desk look like the bridge of the Star Ship Enterprise. I rather liked it and wore it in to work on the bus - even a be-gelled youth asked where he could buy one. Naturally, I whipped it off and gleefully accepted his sweat-stained thirty five quid (only joking). And of course there was the meetin' and a greetin'. Due to some quirk I wriggled out of the task but I did witness my fellow brethren adopting either the trolley dolly approach of directing people, gesturally, to the cinema, gig or bar; or favouring the more avuncular technique of spinning a yarn like a travel guide who had temporarily strayed from Trafalgar Square.
But what of the gigs themselves? Well they were great. Being ably assisted by more security staff than you could shake a walkie-talkie at you could casually glance at the walkway and the odd act. Though on more than one occasion I was accosted by a hip swaying Maija (sic) bellowing 'Fire Exit' in my ear. Naturally, I assumed that he was likening the band we were watching to some obscure one hit wonders from Dundee, rather than sending me to my allotted position.
Kasabian shook; loved Tiny Dancer, Scott Matthews' Smiths cover brought a tear to the eye and whilst I was with Dominique, taking in the grunge-tastic BRMC, she got her priorities right by spectacularly dropping her pint whilst holding onto the drummer's lobbed tambourine. Did iTunes rock? Not arf.
Toby Messer
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