Virgin

Blimey, you wait six months in the long bleak winter with fluff-all festival-going joyness then, like the proverbial London bus, loads all come along at once. I’m quite dizzy with Virgin Festival excitedness. So here I am in Sydney, Australia (why is everyone so darn healthy here? My Antipodean workmates are up at 6.30 am doing yoga in the Botanical Gardens while I’m dragging myself in to conciousness with coffee and banana bread) and my trainers are still caked in mud from the Gold Coast VFestival and I have to think about how to get to Melbourne and Perth this weekend to take in the next leg of the Australian VFest tour. Just about got my fuzzy brain around that one when, still raw from the Toronto Virgin Festival announcement (Foo Fighters! Oasis! Bloc Party! Stereophonics!) I find that those sneaky guys from Virgin Mobile in the US have unleashed yet another awesome lineup upon the world. Stone Temple Pilots! Kanye West! Nine Inch Nails! Jack Johnson! Yay - more Foo Fighters! Hardcore yet chilled - the perfect diverse VFest lineup that keeps us all hooked. So the Baltimore date is now in my ever-growing festival diary - August 9 & 10 at the Pimlico Race Course it is. Check out virginmobilefestival.com for more details. I may need to take a power nap now in order to get me through the next few days…