Day Two: I don’t kiss no Women!

Day Two: I don’t kiss no Women!

14^th July 2011

Quote of the Day: ‘Did he just shoot her in the head?!’ – Jude, Kelly and Charli when Snoop shot a girl in the head in his video!

We had an early start this morning as we wanted to get on site early before the throngs of people started arriving to set up camp for the festival. It opened at 4pm, but already at 8am there were hundreds of people trailing their tents along in shopping trollies and carrying the biggest boxes of boxed wine I think I have ever seen! The Police were out and about and already breathalysing anyone that crossed their path – including myself, which I thought was a bit insulting considering I had only just learnt how to drive the van.

We did a quick supermarket dash to stock up on cream cakes, grapes and yoghurt for the performances and were met by even more people all dressed up in Breton flags, wigs, facepaint, the works who were busy buying their alcohol supplies for the week. The town was completely full of people but pretty much all the shops had shut to stop drunk festival-goers coming inside, and the roads all had big metal barriers all up the side of them to stop people walking or parking there.

Once on site, the TV cameras were waiting and mintues later Jude was busy pulling some man dressed as a giant Rabbit (the TV mascot, not just a strange man) about on the table for an interview. If you want to have a look, click here to see the video.

Photo by Le Fourneau

The shows went down very well with our audience, who seem to love watching English people make fools of themselves and they even loved being covered in champagne at the end of the show – normally people run away but here people were holding out their glasses to catch some of the nasty fruity alcohol flavoured fizz. Several people even chased Jude and Graeme asking for the bottle!

Photo by Le Fourneau

After we had packed up, we headed on site for a dirty sausage and chip baguette to get our energy up and ready to go for Snoop Doggy Dogg. We rushed over to the big stage, and sneakily managed to get right up in to the wings so we could be right next to him as he performed. Feeling rather proud of ourselves and congratulating each other on our sneaky-ness we heard the band start up for him, and then the man himself and realised we had gone to the wrong stage and he was on the other side of the field! No wonder it was so easy to get on that stage.

We made it over to the stage as he kicked off his set and decided to stay with the crowd as that was where the party was at! In-between his songs Snoop had recorded several videos which played on big screens all around the festival – at first we all thought it was great, and everyone was cheering for them , but in the second video he decided that he would shoot a woman he had just slept with in the head as she tried to shoot him!! Slightly stunned at the thousands of people around us that were shouting and cheering around us we were suddenly a wee bit worried about what Snoop was encouraging here as he made everyone shout lyrics that I couldn’t possibly repeat ever again… ever!

Once he was on his last song, and his bad bad videos had come to and end, we whizzed backstage to try and catch him coming off and to our delight, there he was. We shouted like mad 13 year olds who had just seen Hear’say in concert and Snoop turned and gave us the sign of respect… no words.. just a nod and the respect hand thing He was then followed by his band, and a fantastic female rapper that was on stage with him – we shouted at her as well and she came over to say hello – Kelly asked her for a kiss on the cheek, to which she replied, ‘aaaahhhhh no, i don’t kiss no women!’. Very very happy with ourselves and the respect we received from Snoop, we headed back to the van for the drive home as Jude kept collapsing with laughter. Driving home was like driving through a Zombie film as everyone was heading out of the festival to their campsites so the roads were covered in very drunk and spaced out people who didn’t seem to notice a massive massive van coming down the road towards them, and seemed to be so excited by the horn that is had very little effect!