V Good Show

Despatches from our mole at the V Festival…

* Lily Allen is very pretty and petite in the flesh.
* Sophie Ellis Bextor is very skinny indeed and her son is cursed with not only bright ginger hair but curly, bright ginger hair.
* Robyn looks pretty old close up.
* Despite not really liking his music, Paulo Nutini made me go slightly weak at the knees.
* Iggy Pop made me go very weak at the knees, especially as i got to watch from the side of the stage. Ditto Jarvis
* Graham Coxon should play more old stuff. And maybe not headline half-empty tents.
* The new Sugababe turned up as a guest of Mutya. AT THE WRONG SITE.
* Kanye West sat in his posh car most of the time then got someone to gaffer tape bins bags over his feet so his white trainers stayed pristine.
* Peter Kay is lovely but didn't go on stage with the Proclaimers.
* The singer from James looks so much like Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon that I found it difficult not to laugh.
* The Manics’ new guitarist is called Wayne. He used to be in 90s indie boyband Catch, and then thirteen:thirteen. This is not new information from the weekend but he was being a dick so I want to ridicule him as much as possible.
* Nicky Wire is still a really, really lovely bloke though. As is Dave Grohl.
* There was a sign saying 'due to circumstances beyond our control, the Kooks will be headlining the Channel Four stage this evening'. I laughed. Lots. But not in the singer's face, which would have been much better.

(Thanks to Holly C for this.)