Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

Best weekend ever. It certainly was. By a long shot. Glastonbury 2007 is hard to sum up in words. It is too much of an emotionally charged experience. Instead of attempting to describe it, as I am sure I will not do it justice, I have made a couple lists and linked to lots of videos.

Most memorable moments

• The knee deep “mud” around the urinals and watching some poor bugger wipe out in it.
• Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy, Hey Girl.
• Given a business card by a wizard. A genuine real wizard.
• Nizlopi – JCB Song. Then meeting Luke (Nizlopi singer) and getting a signed CD afterwards.
• Covered in mud, and most probably traces of urine, throwing frisbees in the crowd watching The View.
• Mastering the art of subtly peeing in a pint glass when stuck in the middle of a 100 000 people.
• Damien Rice. My best live acoustic performance ever.
• Finding a food store selling the biggest yorkshire puddings, filled with pork, mash and vegetables. Mmmm… festival food.
• The Marley brothers performing their old man’s “One Love” on the Pyramid Stage. One of their kids, not sure which one, who couldn’t have been older than 5, was jiving on the stage with a Jamaican flag and a smile from ear to ear. Bob must have been well proud upstairs watching his family share the love.
• The Killers performing “Mr Brightside”. (Click on the link to watch it)

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It’s a great time to be in London if you are a music lover. It’s summer time which means music festival time.

This last weekend I managed to get a free day ticket to the O2 Wireless Festival. My ticket was valid for the Sunday which was the “Indie Rock” day. This meant I got to see a whole bunch of bands I had never heard of before, plus of course the amazing Kaiser Chiefs.

One band which I thoroughly enjoyed was “The Editors”. Below is the single they released this week. I tried finding the O2 Wireless Festival video of it on YouTube, but I had no luck. Just imagine a packed sea of Indie fans jumping up and down.

Don’t like it? Play it again. A couple more times. I’m sure it will grow on you.

The other band I enjoyed was “The Twang”, especially this song, “Either Way”.

2 more sleeps and I’m off to Glastonbury. Which I am sure will be the best and worst experience of my life.

The best music experience. And the worst hygiene experience.

Over the past few weeks, submerged in photoshop work, I have managed to find a few great indie tracks lurking around Myspace. SO without further ado i present to you my “Thursday Tunes” (yeah I know it doesn’t rhymes, but there is some basic alliteration in there).

Simply click on the song title, surf over to the corresponding Myspace page and play the tune in the standalone music player:

Palms Up: Storm

A great tune off the new album of one of my rugga bugger mates and his band that is taking Cape Town by storm.

Rogue Wave: Eyes

Rogue Wave is an indie band based in California. I heard this awesome track in the first episode of my new favourite TV series, “Heroes”. Check out “Heroes” on my new favourite website :)

Farryl Purkiss: Ducking and Diving

A South African solo artist, traveling the world, living his dream, and even writing songs with artists like Jack Johnson and Ben Lee.

Morning Runner: Burning Benches

My favourite tune at the moment that I discovered in the new Adidas “Impossible is nothing” commercial that’s on tellie here in the UK at the moment.

Right I’m off to play with photoshop again for another few hours, then off for a weekend away in the English countryside. Have a great Easter break everyone!

I stumbled upon this great tune earlier today called “Hate Me”, it’s by some Texas blokes called Blue October. The singer is pretty emo, definitely angry with someone, but if you can get past that you might enjoy the tune as much as i do.