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Musical highlight one. “I’m Iggy and you’re Kiwi MotherF–kers!” Glad I got to see this lizard-like legend play with the Stooges, who pumped out the big dumb Flintstones-style Rock n Roll like they invented it, which they did, I guess.

Musical highlight two.“Remember, Meg’s not happy unless you’re all happy!” There’s some mixed reviews of the White Stripes show, but I loved ’em. Yeah, Jack should shave his goatee, and yes, he played more instruments than he should have, but the little bugger never stopped rocking hard, and produced some noises from his guitar that I didn’t think were possible. What the knockers need to remember is that Jack and Meg did it all for us – they just wanted us to have a good time listening to their bad ass, dirty-as, swamped out Rock n Roll. We did. And I loved the feedback.

The other musical highlights. The Go! Team were great once they settled into their set. Bollox to The Heralds’ Russell Baille for obviously watching just the first two songs, then buggering off to check out the Lynx Jet tent. Sleater-Kinney were great, as were what I caught of Kings of Leon. And fair play to 2Many DJs for dropping AC/DC in the Boiler Room late on.

Festival punters’ band T-shirt spotting report. Nirvana (several), Ramones (loads), Doors (1), AC/DC (1), Metallica (1). A BIG bonus to Ian for spotting Megadeath, some very sweet action there. No Pearl Jam, though.

Old git’s logistics report. “Nah, I’m not going to drink that much”. “You’ll have to queue up for ages for a beer, eh”. “There’s no bogs there”. “We’ll be the oldest ones there”. “Whine, whine, whinge”, etc, etc.
That was all bollocks, of course. Yeah we did have to queue a bit to get into the Wave Bar, but once we were in we could sit on the grass, talk crap, and pound a few Lion Reds in the sun while listening to the Magic Numbers (derivative shite). Lovely. And once we got down to the main stage area, there were some great loos with no queues in the grandstand. This is important, you know.
As for being the oldest ones there – not even close. I even spotted Roger Sheperd and Colin Hogg taking their places at the back of the herd for Iggy, and those guys are REALLY old.
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This could change your life.
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Tagging is everywhere that matters on the internet, so why not tag your itunes library as well? Here’s how I’ve done it.

com / comedy / comedy tracks followed by the comedian

ele / electronic / anything electronic, ie. drum machines, no guitars, faceless souless techno, whatever.

fav / favorite / My favourite tunes, usually by genre such as gat, ele, or anything. You’ll think of better ones than me.

gat / guitar / Anything with a six string on it. Lighters in the air, stage dives, brush cotton shirts, you get the idea.

new / new (geddit?) / Just new stuff you want to listen to, to see if you like it. New songs from Mp3 blogs go on here.

rnd / random / If you have plenty of a paticular artist, make a list of all their albums and set it shuffle for untold random Saxon, Debbie Gibson or George Benson. It’s up to you though, those are just examples, like.

trip / trip soundtracks / When you make a list for a trip, you might like to save it and name it to remember that car journey / plane ride / whatever. Does that sound soppy?

Other tips:
– I use the ‘my top rated’ function a lot to tag songs I want to mess with later. This often happens when you’re shuffling all your songs, and it’s really easy to on the go, too.
– Try and keep tags short, so you can read them on your iPod screen.
– Set all the lists to random, while you’re at it, it’s loads more fun.

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