Community Festival - Two Door Cinema Club

This is a great festival with a great line up this year. Perfect for me. Well apart maybe from it being at Crystal Palace which is the other end of London. And it doesn't really deal with a 25,000 crowd very well.

But it was a glorious sunny day. There was a long queue when we entered and rather than get to the front, Eoin and I picked barriers a distance from the stage, but dead centre and with a barrier we had something to lean on. I stayed rooted for 7 hours but Eoin came and went for drink and consequential loo breaks!

Opening act was Baby Queen, the only act I hadn't seen before. Not bad but not wonderful. It did feel a bit like she was the token woman on an all male bill, and honestly I thought the guitarists were better than she was.

Baby Queen seemingly having got entangled in someone's old net curtains.

Skinny guitarist enjoying the sun in a shirt so loud Eoin liked it😂

The Sea Girls are a decent enough band, but just don't see them getting any bigger, which is a shame for them. (No girls in the Sea Girls by the way!)

Now I have a very soft spot for the Vaccines, who if it were down to me would have been main support with a longer set. They have a great set of extremely catchy songs, but all from rather a number of years ago now.

The Wombats have a surprisingly strong following among younger audience members, and the crowd was very young, in part due to the line up but also because ticket prices were pretty reasonable for a full day festival.

Eoin, by now sporting a new festival t-shirt

And finally to the ever brilliant Two Door Cinema Club, backed by a rather artistic light show behind them

Can't help thinking this is what Hitler would have looked like if he had been brought up in Belfast.....

 Was a terrific festival really. Only catch was getting out, which took ages. And 20,000 impatient music fans keen to get home didn't take kindly to being kettled outside Crystal Palace station. Eoin needed midnight pizza to sustain himself.