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Description: One-day festival of dance and electronica also featuring Roni Size, Freeland, Esser, Peaches, Mstrkrft, Crookers, Marina & The Diamonds and many more.
Initially blighted by angry skies, this one-day party got off to a slow start and a brilliant newcomer, Brixton’s MPHO, played to a tent where you could have swung a very large cat. She defied her time slot, though, and warmed up fans with debut single Box N Locks. Fortunately, the pessimism of the promo girls handing out pac-a-macs proved unfounded and with Aussie newcomers Sneaky Sound System, we had lift-off.
For once, the Common was blissfully free of Clapham mummies and their three-wheeler buggies —they’d probably decamped to the country where Bloody Beetroots are sold at the farmers’ market and are not Italian DJs in gimp masks.
But back to the main stage. Adam Freeland demanded everyone’s soul (although I’d settle for the “Oasis RIP” T-shirt I saw one bloke wearing), before Roni Size and his Reprazent collective laid down beats almost as dirty as the feet of anyone in sandals. Elsewhere, Peaches exploded on to the stage to the A-Team theme tune, looking like a Day-Glo Adam Ant in puffed-up neon, and then there was Röyksopp proving there’s life beyond their advertising jingles.
Get Loaded is a dance-indie hybrid that actually works and as the sun went down, everyone came together for Orbital’s headline light show. Glow-in-the-dark Rizlas bobbed in time with the Hartnoll brothers’ handy plumbers’ helmets, and a class Belinda Carlisle mix was melded into their grand old Dr Who finale. No doubt the Common has now been reclaimed by the three-wheeled massive but, for one weekend, it was loaded to the max.
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