T4 on the beach

I went to see T4 on the beach yesterday and I did enjoy it although I did come away thinking I could have had a better time for a couple of reasons. I've not got round to coming and blogging about this till now and I'm tired so will come and edit this and prob write my review of all the atrists/bands that I saw (and can remember) and some other random info from the day tomorow. :-D :-)

Edit: Well it's tomorow so here's my report of Sunday. Left home about 8.30 with my dad and cousin and went to pick my other cousin up before heading towards Weston-Super Mare. At about 11.45 (I think) we arrived on the beach and found a place to park. As we drove onto the beach (yes the carpark was actually on the beach and the parking tickets actually said 'Beware rising tides'!) I think I heard the All American Rejects singing 'Dirty little secret' (I think that's what it's called) so I missed them, I also managed to miss The Automatic. They started their set as I began to walk from our car the the entrance and the walk was so long that by the time we'd reached the entrance they'd finished their set so although I could hear them and sort of saw a bit of them on the big screens I would have liked to have been closer, I'm currently loving their song 'Monster', I might actually look into seeing them somewhere else. Anyway once we were inside the actual place Lily Allen came on, her music isn't really what i'd listen to normally and we were trying to find somewhere to sit and then eat our lunch so wasn't really listening properly. Once we had had our lunch (almost). The proper part of the day started, with the T4 presenters being introduced and the first of many cued (is that the right cue?) applauses. Basement Jaxx were the first of the 'main' acts (I guess the rest had been support acts, and I think that Frank must have been on just before I got there) to come on. I wouldn't buy their music but I don't mind listening to it, it's very catchy and they did a good job singing live, o.k so they may actuallly not have been singing live, I'm not sure, I think atleast some of the acts were but not positive about who wasn't. Can't remember who was on next, some man who I thought was Busta Rhymes until he came on later and Ne-yo at some point too, I'm afraid neither are my type of music. Now I'm struggling to remember the order in which people came on so this will prob be wrong. Mcfly came on an I got up and did a bit of singing along, their music is naff but as I've said before naff can be good and they were. Busta Rhymes's music isn't too my taste and I think I'll leave my descritption of his performance at that so as to avoid angering any of his fans that may be reading this.
So moving swiftly on, The Zuton's were great, love their song Valerie and the other one that I can't remember whqt it is called but I thought they were really good. Embrace sung 'world at your feet' which I like and 'Nature's law' which I also like I was then thinking to myself I hope they do 'ashes' and they did so I was pleased and sung along when I knew the words. Pussycat dolls songs are rather catchy, 'Buttonz' especially but I went off for a toilet break, no offence to them lol. Feeder were really good, they really got the crowd jumping around especially with Buck rogers, which most people seemed to know the words too. Razorlight were also good, I was looking forward to seeing them and I enjoyed their set. I also liked Boy Kill Boy's set although I don't know many of their songs. Simon Webbe'sstuff isn't too my taste again i'm afraid but he did sing better than I expected him too so if he was singing live then that's cool. Orson were good, I only heard them mostly as I went for anoter fun trip to the portable loos. Imagine my annoyance when standing in the long toliet queue I hear the intro to 'Fill my little world' by one of my favourite bands at the moment- The Feeling. I did go over to the side and watch them on the screen but it wasn't as good as it would have been had I been where I was for the others but I have seen them 3 times before so thankfully wasn'ty too dissapointed and I sort of sung along to Sewn in my loo which provided myself with a bit of amusement anyway lol. (If they'd have been singing more than two songs I'd have probably been back to hear them sing atleast 1 song, can't say I really agree with whoever's job it was to decided how many songs each act sang.) Matt Willis had be doing my kind of dancing on the spot to his song 'up all night', not sure what I thought of his new one. I think I need to listen to it again before making my mind up on it. After him I think was Danni Minogue who was good, I'm not particualy a fan of hers, but didnt't mind listening to her. The Pet Shop Boys also performed and I have to say I'm not a big fan of their music atall. Shayne Ward came on, and I then went to get some chips, no offence meant to him as he can sing but I'm not a fan of his songs I'm afraid. The Ordinary boys also performed and were good, I heard them mostly rathet than saw them as walking back to our place in the crowd. Hard-Fi were the special surprise guests as at one point they had been unconfirmed but I'm glad they did come as I thought they were good although I'm not sure if the lead singer was quite, er, right if you know what I mean, I may well be wrong though so will say no more. I think I've mentioned everyone now apart form the last act - Will Young who I did think was good although I think I might have preferred it if he'd chosen some of his others songs that I know better.

We were stood nearish to the back but it was still o.k. Thinking back I do wish I'd tryed to get closer when we fgirst arrived but never mind. You don't get the same atmosphere nearer to the back where people don't seem as bothered and much fewer people are dancing and singing along, as you do at the front. I have to say I wondered why some peopele go as some people don't seem that interested in the music and why have a fun fair at it. Was it not supposed to be about the music?

Once it had finished, and the sun had decided to come out at last (*rollseyes*) ,we went on the long walk back to the car and then the long journey home, we must have left about 6ish but what with the traffic trying to get out of W-SM (appartenly 30,000 people although I'm not sure if all the tickets had bene sold so there may have been less) and taking a different road to which we should really have done, me and my dad didn't arrive home until just after half 10 I think. I then watched abit of what had been shown of the day on the T.V that my mum had taped before going off to bed and not getting up till about 11am the next morning. I was quite tired nearly all day yesterday but I think i'm feeling more awake today.

I had a look on the T4 site and saw they have video's of the Support acts so I've now watched The Automatic singing 'Monster'. On a non-related note I also decided to check out www.pottercastfans.com ( a fansite for a Podcast on the-leaky-cauldron.org - PotterCast) to see if there was any news on the forum as I hadn't been on there for awhile as I'd almost began to give up and was very pleased to see that the forum should be back up soon. :-D