Mildly Impressive

I've waited a long time to be able to throw something at a Hoosier. At the weekend I finally got the chance. They headlined a wee Devon festival called Chagstock and bored us all with their sappy, shit, trite, Electric Light Orchestra-esque songs for a couple of hours. Never cringed so much in my life. They're definitely up at the top if my most hated list, along with The Feeling, Scouting for Girls and James Blunt, who all fill me with rage whenever their songs pipe up on the radio. Anyway after they'd done their thing, me and a few mates somehow ended up in the VIP tent, hanging with the stars (not). We hung around for a while stealing food and booze from the fridge, but the after-party was, all in all, pretty dull. 'Why not liven things up?' I drunkenly thought to myself. Years worth of Hoosier-related rage welled up inside me as I threw a pink wooden flamingo's head straight at the lead singer. I missed unfortunately, but the look of horror on his face was more than satisfying. My friend Harri only added insult to injury by loudly proclaiming to the drummer, 'I thought you were going to be shit, but I guess I was mildly impressed.' YES HARRI! I do feel a bit bad. To be fair they all seemed like really nice people, but me and my Hoosier-hating friends weren't going to let an opportunity like this pass us by.

Other than 'The Hoose' as we now affectionately call them, Chagstock was brilliant. It's just a shame that Seth Lakeman didn't headline because he was amazing.

Bring on next year... maybe we'll get Scouting for Girls :-)