Wireless festival 2009

Nick and I took it easy on Saturday after having some people over on Friday and staying up to watch the sun rise for the third time of the trip. Back at home, watching the sun rise means that you are awake at about 6:30am....whereas because of England's northerly location, the sun sets at about 10:30pm and rises around 4:20am.

<---Sunrise at 4:15am

Not even sure what we were doing at 4:30am--->

Sunday we got up somewhat early and found a cheap train to London for the 2009 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park. We went to find our ultra cheap Hostel that Nick booked online and it turned out about how you would expect. Sufficient but uncomfortable; 6 beds in a room the size of my bedroom, sized for dwarfs, and slightly funky smelling.

<---Hostel, a lot like the movie

We got to the festival a little late after wandering through the wilderness of Hyde Park (which is right in the middle of London mind you!) and ended up missing Young Jeezy.

<---a pond in Hyde Park

This is in the middle of London--->

We got to see Ratatat first, which was strange but a pretty good show, and all the hits were played including my infamous ring tone :

Next we saw Calvin Harris, whom I just learned about while here in the UK. He plays poppy/techno beats but puts on a really awesome show:

We then went to see Kid Cudi, Tinchy Stryder, and Flo Ryda, who were all playing in another tent. We ended up missing Kid Cudi, saw a few songs of Tinchy Stryder that were pretty good (mainly a remix of Block Rockin' Beats by the Chemical Brothers), and then took a quick trip with some new friends to the Gaymer's cider Garden tent. We weren't expecting much, but our two canadian friends (who loved to break into singing Country Roads or Right Round) insisted that the tent was cool. It was actually a lot of fun, two 50+ year old women were DJing actual vinyl (You could actually pick a record out and bring it to the DJ to request a song) and playing all 80's and 90's dance hits. We went back for 2 or 3 songs of Flo Ryda and had enough.

<---Tinchy Stryder

We stopped over to see Q-Tip for a while, who was surprisingly awesome. We also saw Lady Sovereign, who was absolutely horrendous. We then finished up with Kanye. I hadn't seen Kanye West since he came to fall fest 5 or-so years ago, and to tell the truth I am not even a big Kanye fan. Nonetheless he proved himself a cut above the rest and put on one hell of a show:

<---Kanye

Another picture of Kanye--->

We walked home through London at around midnight and got back to our hostel to find that my bed squeaked every time I moved and that there was also another person sleeping in our room...creepy.

<----London at 10:30pm