Gatecrasher Review
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RWD
The RWD crew set out like the famous five on a mission to conquer all ‘eleventy’ tents and stages at the Northampton festival. Tent assemblage and wellie couture were two of the scout badges we gained this weekend. As well as the art of peeing in chemical toilets, dancing in wet garms and not hurling when eating soggy imitation meat burgers!!
After erecting our tent we set about drinking in our new abode, lets face it festival drinks are a bump. The going rate at Gatecrasher was: spirit and mixer £5, a plastic bottle of Carlsberg £4.30 and a bottle of mineral water was a shocking £3!
We rolled from the campsite suitably tiddled to catch the last part of the Prodigy set. The vampires-esque Jericho boomed out across the airfield followed by chart single Firestarter. Two real crowd pleaser were the old skool piano chord tune Your Love and ultimate ravers anthem Out Of Space. Their performance climaxed with fire works that lit up the clear night sky. We hopped, skipped and jumped to the Dirty Disco tent to catch Ben Sim’s, Josh Wink and Luciano tear it up minimal style!
The rave didn’t stop till 6 am so we happily skanked away our hours in the Electric Stew tent! This was arguably the best tent of the whole weekend! The Audio Bullys played a cracking set with a live band that saw them do a five minute rendition of the Nancy Sinatra classic Shot You Down and new material off the album. They were followed by cranky spinner Kissy Sell Out who (annoyingly) wouldn’t let a tune drop for more than a millisecond unlike the CROOKERS who tore the a**e out of the system. In case you don’t know them they are the Italian pioneers of the electro/phatness/filth/crunk movement. Their remix of Kid Cudi’s Day and Night took the set to new levels, with tunes like Limonare and their hypnotic remix of Don Rimini’s Let Me Back Up(Warning this will make you bust a lemon face) its no wonder these kids are hot property. We also liked their fitted caps and the random Italian chick that jumped on stage hollering, ‘We are the Crookers, we from Milano.’ The Italian mob were followed by the legendary mix master Switch who put us through our paces until we decided to check out the dnb tent where caught Roni Size and his live band. Size’s band amazed us especially when they played the legendary Brown Paper Bag synonymous with gangster movie Lock Stock.
On Monday we woke up weary from the night before only to be confronted with a quagmire created by torrential rain. The festivities kicked off at four in the afternoon and we rolled down just in time to catch Benga and Skream play a techno inspired dubstep set. We then saw the Newham Generals and an energetic performance by Dizzee Rascal who jumped around the stage spitting tracks from Maths and English. The crowd got raucous to tunes like Old Skool and Sirens. We caught five minutes of Chicane then retired to the tent for a banana, vodka lemonade and face paint. Enter Justice who gave a phenomenal performance of rock and dark side electro. They opened with the dark and filthy Genesis which is taken from their biblical album, Cross. They ploughed through album hits like Phantom and light hearted ballads, We Are You’re Friends, D.A.N.C.E and The Party feat Uffie. After deserting the French men mid set we missioned it over to the dnb tent for High Contrast. Performing alongside MC Tali the strange haired beast rolled out liquid and jump up infused bangers like Chase and Status, Hurt You and his very own If We Ever. Shy FX followed and mashed up reggae classics like, Rita Marley and Gregory Isaacs making reggae inspired dnb. The rest of night was spent in the minimal tent where we bopped till the sun came up. The only let down was the weather and the lack of headliners Chemical Brothers and Hot Chip.
Words by Sherbie
The RWD crew set out like the famous five on a mission to conquer all ‘eleventy’ tents and stages at the Northampton festival. Tent assemblage and wellie couture were two of the scout badges we gained this weekend. As well as the art of peeing in chemical toilets, dancing in wet garms and not hurling when eating soggy imitation meat burgers!!
After erecting our tent we set about drinking in our new abode, lets face it festival drinks are a bump. The going rate at Gatecrasher was: spirit and mixer £5, a plastic bottle of Carlsberg £4.30 and a bottle of mineral water was a shocking £3!
We rolled from the campsite suitably tiddled to catch the last part of the Prodigy set. The vampires-esque Jericho boomed out across the airfield followed by chart single Firestarter. Two real crowd pleaser were the old skool piano chord tune Your Love and ultimate ravers anthem Out Of Space. Their performance climaxed with fire works that lit up the clear night sky. We hopped, skipped and jumped to the Dirty Disco tent to catch Ben Sim’s, Josh Wink and Luciano tear it up minimal style!
The rave didn’t stop till 6 am so we happily skanked away our hours in the Electric Stew tent! This was arguably the best tent of the whole weekend! The Audio Bullys played a cracking set with a live band that saw them do a five minute rendition of the Nancy Sinatra classic Shot You Down and new material off the album. They were followed by cranky spinner Kissy Sell Out who (annoyingly) wouldn’t let a tune drop for more than a millisecond unlike the CROOKERS who tore the a**e out of the system. In case you don’t know them they are the Italian pioneers of the electro/phatness/filth/crunk movement. Their remix of Kid Cudi’s Day and Night took the set to new levels, with tunes like Limonare and their hypnotic remix of Don Rimini’s Let Me Back Up(Warning this will make you bust a lemon face) its no wonder these kids are hot property. We also liked their fitted caps and the random Italian chick that jumped on stage hollering, ‘We are the Crookers, we from Milano.’ The Italian mob were followed by the legendary mix master Switch who put us through our paces until we decided to check out the dnb tent where caught Roni Size and his live band. Size’s band amazed us especially when they played the legendary Brown Paper Bag synonymous with gangster movie Lock Stock.
On Monday we woke up weary from the night before only to be confronted with a quagmire created by torrential rain. The festivities kicked off at four in the afternoon and we rolled down just in time to catch Benga and Skream play a techno inspired dubstep set. We then saw the Newham Generals and an energetic performance by Dizzee Rascal who jumped around the stage spitting tracks from Maths and English. The crowd got raucous to tunes like Old Skool and Sirens. We caught five minutes of Chicane then retired to the tent for a banana, vodka lemonade and face paint. Enter Justice who gave a phenomenal performance of rock and dark side electro. They opened with the dark and filthy Genesis which is taken from their biblical album, Cross. They ploughed through album hits like Phantom and light hearted ballads, We Are You’re Friends, D.A.N.C.E and The Party feat Uffie. After deserting the French men mid set we missioned it over to the dnb tent for High Contrast. Performing alongside MC Tali the strange haired beast rolled out liquid and jump up infused bangers like Chase and Status, Hurt You and his very own If We Ever. Shy FX followed and mashed up reggae classics like, Rita Marley and Gregory Isaacs making reggae inspired dnb. The rest of night was spent in the minimal tent where we bopped till the sun came up. The only let down was the weather and the lack of headliners Chemical Brothers and Hot Chip.
Words by Sherbie
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