The worst set of the summer

The out and out worst set of the summer award has to be awarded to Noah and the Whale for their poor effort at The Secret Garden Party. Before I start slating them I've got to confess that I've just read in someone else's blog that Charlie Fink, who heads up the band, had just recovered from a recent bout of the flu.

Well, we didn't know this when we saw the set. My friend Kat had been wanting to see them since the disastrous Bestival '08. We waited in great anticipation, perched in a great spot on the hill, for the band. I know this is ignorant of me but I genuinely didn't know the song they were famous for, 5 Years Time, or indeed any of their music.

They appeared for all of about ten minutes, struggled their way through a couple of tunes before shrivelling up into a wad of gum on the floor - well not quite, but that is how it seemed. It was a complete non-entity of a performance.

Someone should have told these lads about the performance enhancing properties of some of our favourite rock and roll substances.

Also, Noah and the Whale, what a wishy-washy, sappy name for a band!