How to waste 5 minutes...

How to waste 5 minutes...
Originally uploaded by Ian Wilson.

Don't click on it...

Don't!...

DON'T!...

I'm warning you...

Oh well...

You never listen anyway.


Via Chumpstyle.

Carling Leeds Festival 2006

Carling Leeds Festival 2006
Originally uploaded by Ian Wilson.

Yay! So Nat and I are back in London after a manic weekend up in Leeds at the Carling Weekend.

It was a fantastic three days spent camping, drinking beer (from 10am), and watching the biggest and best bands put on their biggest and best performances. Highlights included: Pearl Jam's first festival performance for 6 years following the death of 10 people in a crowd rush in Denmark; Boy Kill Boy's accoustic set in the Nokia tent; Duels in the NME tent; Dashboard Confessional; Panic! At the Disco; Kaiser Chiefs; Franz Ferdinand; Wolfmothers' Zeppelin goodness; Feeder; The Streets; Arctic Monkeys; and finally Muse in the pouring rain.

With no Glastonbury this year the festival offered an even richer choice of bands and artists and I managed to get around to almost every one that I wanted to see. In fact, looking back I only missed two bands that I wish I could have watched: The Kooks (missed while picking Nat up from the station on Friday evening) and The Fratellis (who played at the same time as Arctic Monkeys on Sunday).

Between my cameraphone and my trusty Cybershot S85 I managed to get some decent photo's through the weekend. They're all up on Flickr right now. Shortly after publishing them I became the next person in the growing mass who have been recruited by Now Public to contribute photo's. They're up here.

We discovered the day before we left for Leeds that the tent I was given two years ago (and had never used before) was in fact a 'play' tent. So when the heavens opened on Sunday night during the Muse set (the very last set of the weekend) Nat and I made the executive decision to leave slightly early, head back to the camp, fold the tent up (contents included), dump everything in the boot of the car, and hot foot it back to London. The result was a rather surreal four hour drive through the early hours of the morning, loading up on coffee, Red Bull, Lucozade, and chocolate to stay awake all the way back to London.

Good times!

All I want now is a new digital SLR.


** Update: Seems the Leeds pics are proving quite popular. Huntfordecentmusic have also requested in on the action.

Music photography

I could spend hours trawling through these photos. His live journal is here. It's apparent now, I've missed my calling in life.

Carling Leeds Festival 2006

Carling Leeds Festival 2006
Originally uploaded by Ian Wilson.

We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going! We're going!

So as a suprise for Nat's birthday I spashed out on 3 day camping passes for the Leeds festival 2006. It's an experiential thing. I went in 2004 and it's was probably the best weekend of my life. So for Nat's birthday I've got us both tickets for this years event so that she can experience it as well. The line up is absolutely brilliant (uh, Pearl Jam anyone?) and some of Nat's favourite bands are playing over the weekend.

Now lets just hope that the weather plays along. Either that or we'll be splashing out on some funky second hand wellies.

PS. Someone needs to start selling 1.2 litre bottles of wine. A single 750ml bottle is NEVER enough for two people. And 2 750ml bottles means that you each end up drinking an entire bottle and feeling like grot in the morning. 1.2 litres would be ideal as a share size.

Natalie on the masthead!

Natalie on the masthead!
Originally uploaded by Ian Wilson.

Natalie's recent promotion means a nice climb up the magazine masthead for some decent recognition.

I feel so pressured to succeed myself now : /

Well done chicken-wing!

Fruitstock 2006

Fruitstock 2006
Originally uploaded by Ian Wilson.

Photo's from the Innocent Smoothies Fruitstock festival are up on flickr.

A great day out followed by late night drinks at the dodgiest local pub ever.

Flickr'ing

Ugh. I've undertaken the laborious task of uploading my back catalogue of photos to flickr. Partially because I may as well use my lovely Pro account (thanks to Nat for that!), and partially because I've got a sneaky suspicion that my external hard drive may be nearing the end of it's life span and I don't want to lose the pics when it finally croaks.

Be warned: If I've known you for a couple of years then there may well be some embarrasing photo's of you included in the sets.

Epsom Downs

Went to the races to watch the horses. Lost two quid. Won sixty quid (in a group bet). Spent it all on champagne. Watched Texas play live.

It's all on flickr.

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