1. Grace Jones. Headlining the Sunday of Lovebox Festival. Hearing 'Pull up To the Bumper' live for the first time ever was too good for words. Juxtaposed to an extremely amusingly dressed crowd that only Lovebox Sunday can pull.
2. Tom Petty. The Albert Hall. (Left). Hit after hit, need more need be said?3. Blur, Hyde Park. A chorus of 80,000 to practically every word sung by Damon Albarn. People complained about the sound afterwards, but wasn't a problem if you had made it to to the front.
4. The Other Tribe. Bestival Warm Up Party at the Bussey Building. The whole crowd were blown away, in between songs all you could hear was people asking "who is this great band". We went on to book them for Bosco club, again they worked their magic on the crowd and subsequent dance floor. Catch them at Bestival this weekend, and say you saw them 'before they were big'. Fearne Cotton had them play on her Radio live lounge yesterday, so you don't have long!
5. George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic. Hop Farm. (Left). What a cool band, forget Gangster Rap, Pimp Funk is where it's at.
6. Roni Size & Dynamite Mc. Relaxation Generation festival. Hearing the Reprazent classic 'Brown Paper Bag' live was something else. To add to this, Elisabeth Troy performing 'Sincere' with Zinc on decks was rather special.
7. Primal Scream. Hop Farm. It clashed with Bob Dylan, but Primal Scream were always going to play a better show.
9. The Sheepdogs. Hop Farm. They where the first act on the Sunday main stage, a friend sent this song over the week before, saying 'be sure to watch them'. Being the only person in the crowd knowing the lyrics was kinda fun.
10. Last but definitely not least; Damien, Julian and Stephen Marley playing the opening night of the Jamaica 50 celebrations, at the 02 indigo. A great intimate venue and a touching family performance. Along the highlights was the Damien Marley version of 'Could you be loved'.
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