I got soul but I'm not a soldier

Saturday was D-Day: the V Festival in Sydney. Maarten and I walked 45 minutes from the apt. to Centennial Park and arrived just as the first bands started playing on one of four stages. We had to throw away some food we had brought, but got to keep the bag of potato chips and not long thereafter we were lying in the sun, listening to Duffy singing her lungs out. After that we discovered the fine music by Elbow, and saw a little of Razorlight, but their singer appeared to be heavily under the influence of....something, and wasn't very good.

Then we grabbed a bite to eat, which took way longer than we wanted it to, but eventually we found ourselves at the front of the stage surrounded by Chinese people who were constantly making pictures of themselves. Oh well. Who cares if you're just a few metres from...Snow Patrol!!! Their performance was amazing, though the lead singer was so flabberghasted by the enormous crowd that he forgot his lines a number of times.

After Snow Patrol, The Killers were playing on the other stage, so we had to run through the thousands of other people trying to get there in the dark. We got halfway to the stage, I think we were about 15 minutes late, but they sang all the songs we wanted to hear when we were there. My travel-theme-song 'All these things I've done' was their last song and was just about a perfect moment.

All day the weather was perfect, the atmosphere was relaxed and friendly, and the world was nothing but sun and good music.