Xfm at Beach Break - Day 2
Get Cape surfs, Noah And The Whale dirty dance and The Cribs whip up 6,00 students into a frenzy. It's the second day of Beach Break, of course...
11.35am - The world and his (student-shaped) wife are taking advantage of the summer rays and hitting the beach like a tidal wave. Seriously, you cant see the sand for the bodies.
Xfm join the revellers and ponders back on the closing scene to the previous night's festivities: Murph Wombat and Does It Offend You Morgan singing a song to Xfm about all the times they've been sick on themselves. These boys were born to charm!
12.15pm - Xfm spots Sam Duckworth (aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.) on the beach...and wait...is that...yes! he's actually hitting the waves with his board and he's not too shabby. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Surf!
1pm - As if Uncle Bulgaria and all the other Wombles have been running about all night collecting all the sparkly things on the floor the entire festival site is once again transformed from the previous nights rubbish-tippery and looks shiny and new. Pity the same can't be said for all the student revellers who are looking a whole lot worse for wear.
2pm - The Cornish Cup has once again drawn us in, this time its the 'Pimp My Human Sheep' contest which consists of...yes, a human being dressed up as a sheep and well, being pimped. Rumours that MTV are launching a new show of the same name are as yet unconfirmed.
3.30pm - Xfm finds out that Vincent Vincent And The Villains are sick and will be replaced on tonight's bill by Johnny Foreigner. Did they drink too much cider last night perhaps perchance?
4pm - Spotted! The Cribs on site (sans Kate Nash) soaking up the Cornish vibes.
5.15pm - One interview with Noah And The Whale later and what has Xfm learnt? That the band have 'Dirty Dancing' on the tour bus...but they reckon it was already there. We're not buying it.
6pm - Sam Duckworth (Get Cape) joins us by the Dutch hot tubs to take in the view and talk surfing, Kate Nash and why he'd like to take condoms into the Dragons' Den.
7.45pm - Bands and crew are playing one huge ass game of football backstage. Xfm attempts to avoid being hit by the baseball (and fails).
8pm - Enough already! Get Cape is playing volleyball now. The fact that Xfm spots this whilst buying a large slice of cake is none too pleasing. Surfing, volleyball and flying? Whatever next.
8.45pm - Get Cape takes to the stage (when, oh when will he actually wear a cape onstage) and the crowds swarm in and start to sway.
9.10pm - Shizen! The sound has died. Power has totally gone from the stage. What to do? Have beer downing contests on stage, hit up some drum solos and get the crowd singing 'We Will Rock You', that's what!
9.18pm - "Get Cape Get Cape Get Cape..." and the sound's back on with a boom. "Shall we start the whole set again?" they ask the crowd. Um, you're good guys, but we've got beers to drink...on with the show!
10.00pm - The Cribs: Wakefield's finest take to the stage for their first headline festival slot this year...rooooaaaaaar. Students can be mighty loud when they want to be. Kicking things off with 'Hey Scenesters' the set never dips from the initial crescendo and the Jarman brothers show once why their D.I.Y. punk sound continues to stay so popular (and leave Xfm wondering how identical twins can grow to look so vey different over a few years) . Plus they've got 6,000 students to chant 'Wakefield' in unison and that can't be a bad thing. No blood from Ryan...yet.
11pm - That's it. The Cribs polish off their well..pretty unpolished set (but lets be honest that's just how we like them) and the mainstage is done for yet another night. On to the dance tent for a drop of Pendulum? Xfm thinks so. Let's get this party started.