Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

BEDFORD ROAD: Went to the 02 Wireless Festival which, as it turns out, is a huge marketing maneouver by a telco but nevermind when it gives you the chance to see Mojave 3, Pharell, Gnarls Barkley, The Flaming Lips and Massive Attack in Hyde Park on a midsummers Friday afternoon.

The Lips were awesome, possibly even outdoing the show from the Big Day Out a couple of years ago. The set list included thumping versions of Free Radical, Yoshimi, Race for the Prize and Do You Realise? They dedicated a ten-minute singalong version of Bohemian Rhapsody to the England team's 2nd round match against Ecuador and they delivered a mind blowing, ploticised version of The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song. All this flanked by people in giant inflatable robot suits, dancing Santas, balloons, a rainbow coloured ticker tape finale and even a marriage proposal. Massive Attack followed it up with a great set that included Shara Nelson, the original vocalist, singing on Unfinished Sympathy and Horace Andy on a host of numbers from Blue Lines. Even Gnarls Barkley, with a three piece string section, guitar, base, drums, 2 x DJ and backing singers was amazing.

Then afterwards we hung out in a flat in Finsbury Park listening to Sam Cooke records until it was time to go home. Whereupon we fell asleep on our night bus and didn't wake up again until we were halfway BACK to Finsbury Park. Joy. Still its the Socceroos v. the Azzuri (which side is Lygon St. on?) tomorrow and Death Cab at Brixton Academy on Wednesday night.


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If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah