Lisa Gwawr: IT'S WELLIES TIME!

The day after A level results day, myself and a friend headed down to Swansea by half 9 so that we could catch our bus up to Stratford. The reason for this was that we were going to V Festival. The bus ride up was quite eventful as we were stranded in a services 2 hours away from Weston park (where the festival was being held) as the bus battery had run flat! Eventually we got going again and made it by around 4pm. It had been raining for most of the morning so by the time we arrived the fields had turned in to more of a mud bath than anything else! It took us around 30mins to find a place to position a tent, once we found it, gosh, we were so thankful! The bags on our backs were so heavy and we nearly decided just to sit in the middle of the field and just sleep on the grass! We were lucky with our tent because it was very near the burger fan so it was easy to find in darkness on the way back from the arena! The toilets and water were close but far enough that we were able to reach them in a couple of seconds yet not suffer the stench of the thousands of people who used the portaloos!

Friday night there wasn't much going on in the arena. There was a fair a couple of bars, but that's it. As a result we decided to hit the hay early and be ready for the next two long days! We'd planed who we were going to watch on the Saturday so once we arrived down in the arena we knew where we needed to be and at what time so that we didn't miss a thing! There wasn't much on until around half 1 so we went to watch Lawson. I'd never heard of them before but they were surprisingly good and reminded me a lot of the Script. We grabbed some lunch and then made our way to the main stage where we were for the rest of the day. We saw, Ollie Murs, Madness, TOM JONES!, Tinie Tempah, Snow Patrol and THE KILLERS! I was so excited to see all of these awesome people, especially The Killers, who were awesome!

The next day, again there wasn't much on until after lunch, and as it was raining so much in the morning, we headed in to the glee tent to watch some comedians. Once the rain eased down we heard some Proclaimers from afar as we ate our lunch to the sound of "I will walk 500 miles . . . "! Next on stage were Rodrigo y Gabriella, they were this guitar duo which were awesome! Emile Sande sang after, her voice was awesome! I wasn't sure if I like James Morrison who was on in the afternoon but he was incredible! His voice is so soulful and bluesy, totally different to what he sounds like when he sings the love songs he sings. Keane we on next, they were good, not outstanding, but good. I moved over to the Undercover stage to watch the comedian Tim Minchin. He was hilarious! It wasn't a stand-up gig but he just played a load of songs he had written, which ranged from Cheese to Woody Allen Jesus! Once Tim Minchin's set was over I headed back to the main stage for what I'd been looking forward to most that day - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds! The man was superb! He played a mix of NGHFB and Oasis songs. The crowd new every single word of every song he played, even the brand new stuff - it was awesome. The headliners Sunday night were the Stone Roses, when they walked on stage the first thing that came in to my head was like WOW, "Ian looks like the exact older version of Noel!" It was so weird! The Stone Roses rocked it though. I don't think the guitar stopped playing for the whole set! They were superb.