Hop Farm Festival 2009 – Day One
Photos from Day Two can be found here.
Interesting first day at the Hop Farm Festival down here in Kent. Even with the massive ticket giveaways it has obviously still struggled to fill out the 20,000 capacity. Which is kind of a shame, firstly because it’d be nice to see a local festival succeed, and secondly because it’s actually quite decent. Despite suffering from some odd lineup ordering (The View higher than Ash, really?), it’s a fairly professional, well laid festival.
Highlights today:
- Johnny Foreigner who included a whole bunch of a new material in their drunken set, a new band member on a few songs, saw Kelly and Junior swap positions and more.
- Let’s Wrestle played to a small, but certainly rowdy audience.
- The Joy Formidable seem to have become ten times more popular than when we saw them at Reading last year too, which was a pleasant surprise.
- Ash, who I haven’t heard anything from in the best part of ten years, were really bloody good.
Photos below. You can click through to Flickr for the full size versions. Tomorrow’s lineup includes British Sea Power, The Rumble Strips, Super Furry Animals, Editors and the mighty Dananananaykroyd.
Nice photos, found them using last.fm – just to say that I’ve stuck a couple of your pics on my blog too – do you want written attribution – or is it ok to just embed them and have them linked back to your flickr account?
Cheers.
Either is fine really. The embedded link that you’ve done already is okay with me.
Glad you liked them!