Leeds was muddy. Very very muddy. It rained during the setup process and turned most of back stage into a bog. The Radio 1 / NME stage was particularly messy out front where the punters were. Pendulum had a massive crowd appear for their set which churned the place up even more. Just before our lot went on they had an unknown US act play, which emptied the place out. It soon filled back up when the boys got on stage.

I was a little nervous about the stage setup for the show as there’s quite a lot of stuff to do in the thirty minute turn around time. It was frantic, but I got it done on time and am now a little more relaxed about the show. Reading festival tomorrow then off to Paris for a show.


I got a last minute phone call today. I’ll be going to Oxford, Leeds festival and Reading festival with The Last Shadow Puppets. Paris might appear there somewhere too. Sweet!


I have now discussed this invoice with xyz and have been asked to pay you for the first three days, making a total of £xyz. Your cheque has gone out first class in last night’s post. The dispute had slightly delayed processing.

When you dispute an invoice, you’re supposed to actually contact the person who you’re disputing the invoice with. Seeing as that’s not that case and I don’t particularly like you or your company, I’m going to sting you for every penny you owe me.


I’ve spent the last six days in Windsor at the Guards Polo Club putting in lighting for the Rock the Polo event hosted by Chinawhites. It’s generally been a fun few days but the actual event was somewhat stuck up.

People with hideous amounts of money seem to have no shame and do as they please. We saw two burnt out cars on the way back in yesterday morning and on the way home on Sunday night there were plenty of fights and people stealing things.

Just goes to show, money doesn’t buy you dignity, respect or class.


I was at Tate Modern last night, working on a corporate job with a little bit of a twist!

The job was for Nissan and was essentially a pre motor show do for various industry related bods. The usual corporate really, apart from the headline act was Beardyman. Excellent!

We got to see the new Nissan GTR in the flesh, which was good. Unfortunately they couldn’t bring it into the main turbine hall as the person driving the car turned the engine on and the venue people realised it had petrol in it. Apparently that’s a fire risk.

I managed to capture some of beardymans performance for those wishing to see. He was very very good. I last saw him when he opened Groove Armada at Brixton Academy last year.

For those that don’t know, Beardyman is the UK beatboxing champion.

lotsa emails this way!