sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jul 8^th, 2013 at 11:18am:


"This is England/Land of Illegal Dances" (Joe Strummer)

Spot on Gary!!

Yeah, the show was a little disappointing, song choice as well as length wise, but also quality wise for me. Keith was struggling on many songs (just see how he fumbles through the intro of SMU) and even Mick seemed to have some problems: out of breath, timing problems etc. He sounded a bit like he had a cold, maybe he did. But Ronnie was really sharp, so it's a well deserved 'well done Ronnie' from me!

I had hoped Mick would have at least mentioned Brian's name, but well, that's also typically Mick right. Mick Taylor was great on MR as expected. I hate how they under-use him too, probably also typically Jagger. I wonder if Taylor'll join for the Euro leg too in the fall, we'll see.

Anyway, I adjusted my expectations and didn't go for a high quality Stones show (though would have been nice), as I think they basically have sucked live since the new millennium.

I also was disappointed with the sound level: I could barely hear them sometimes, being further away to the side. Mind you, no fault of their own, but Hyde Park residents conditions to BST apparently.

I agree with Gaz about the organisation of the thing: just horrible. And don't get me started about trying to get something to eat: lack of choices, not enough vendors, waiting 60 minutes for a cheeseburger, just silly. Toilets were fine though.
Also I drank free water all afternoon as it was insanely hot and they gave away cups and refilled peoples bottles, very nice guys too.

And getting to Hyde Park and seeing Bernard just strolling around the grounds was so funny. I ran yelling after him like a groupie, lol, but he was gracious as ever, taking his time for photos.

The meetings at the Monkey Bar before and the St. Giles hotel after were sublime of course. I had a real blast, thanks everyone!

Oh and if you have nothing better to do, just watch my video snippets here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/angieheide2006/videos

Gazza wrote on Jul 8^th, 2013 at 3:42pm:

Their's the Gazzaisms we were looking for.

L'wren probably made it last minute

Angie wrote on Jul 8^th, 2013 at 5:01pm:

Saving that one for Vol.II.

Just listened to one of the bootlegs and I think they did good. A few bum notes from Keith, but what's new ? ! I thought Mick sounded a little out of Breath,but he was running about more than on the arena stage. At almost 70 he is incredible by any standard. He certainly had a better gig than I did. Don't really know what happened.....Drunk ? I don't think so. I think the heat /sun got to me as I felt seriously weird after the 1st number. Annoyed about the tier one restricted view , I went on a ............er , kind of rampage down to the front and ended up getting punched for my efforts. I f*cking deserved it to be honest. Flairville thought I'd lost my mind ! I think I had for a while.....came back to my original position with Ben, SV and her husband, but I spent the rest of the gig "detached". It wasn't drink. I've done shows sober,merry and wrecked and always enjoy them. Cooled off as we got moving out of the venue and came round.......my worst ever gig. Passed out on Sunday and spent half the day lying down and drinking water.....bad. Next week I'm bringing a hat, shorts and more water !

Chalking this one down to experience.

sc uk

Forgot to mention that we saw Anita, Gary Kemp, Pattie and the girls all in tier 1. I've probably forgotten some.

sc uk

Patrick wrote on Jul 8^th, 2013 at 4:52pm:



I'm more than a bit distoibed that you would know these things.

Sounds and looks lik
e everyone had a GOOD TIME !

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Jul 8^th, 2013 at 8:15pm:


Luckily a glancing ,limp wristed effort. I just looked at the guy until he explained why he thought I was out of order. He kind of apologised , so I did. No harm done. Careful with the heat next week !

sc uk

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Jul 9^th, 2013 at 4:37am:


  He had me in stitches. Such a funny & fascinating bloke.

60 hours or so after the event, as afew thoughts regarding saturday's show. (I don't need to recount the pre-show events - the photos speak for themselves).

So Keith fluffed the opening few notes of the opening song, so what? Few in the large crowd would have noticed & the reality is, any "mistakes" made by the band were negligible.
  There was a, largely, fantastic atmosphere to be witnessed on saturday night. The festival crowd, full of mainly young people, who i would hazard a guess, were Stones show virgins, were "up for it".
   The Stones, playing out of their 20,000 seater enormo-dome, comfort zone, responded in spades to the hordes of teenagers & twenty-somethings singing back at them.

'Gimme Shelter' seemed to be the biggest favourite amongst the crowd, where i was standing. The masses went insane.

Jagger's grin throughout told a truth.
He was clearly enjoying himself. Maybe, just maybe, he now realises that there's a whole new generation of Stones fans out there worth entertaining.

  I for one, and i expect i'm in the minority of the 'hardcore fanbase' when i say this, hope they play more festivals & events where young fans get to see & hear they're heroes.

   However, as per usual with field shows:- poor facilities. Criminal pricing of refreshments & stewards with limited knowledge of anything but navel-gazing.

Much respect to St John Ambulance volunteers & medics, who were on scene within seconds, everytime a festival goer, 'went down'.

A combination of hot weather too much booze and Mary Jane.....Mad dogs and Englishmen.