And yet more cancelled gigs. Well, cancelled festival sets. The Ordinary Boys had to cancel their set at the V Festival in Stafford this weekend after bassist James Gregory fell ill. He went ahead with Saturday's set at Chelmsford despite feeling ill, but his condition worsened after that show so that by Sunday he was unable to play. It is the first time the Ordinary Boys have had to cancel a show.
Frontman Sam Preston told those NME chaps: "We've never cancelled a gig before and yesterday when we played James soldiered on with flu. But he's been shitting and vomiting all night and his skin is nearly translucent so we have to take him to hospital. This is a genuine apology, we were going to play three new songs today which I was really looking forward to. We want to make it up to the fans, so go to our website and suggest covers for us to play - the sillier the better - and we'll do it the next time we play Manchester."
Despite the Ordinary Boys having to pull their second set, everyone tells us that this weekend's V Festival went down a storm (and I don't think they were talking about the weather). As has become the tradition with the big festivals, a small number of tickets for next year's event are already on sale. V Festival Director Simon Moran told reporters yesterday: "Despite some inclement weather the spirits of our festival goers wasn't dampened and everyone's having a fantastic time. It's great we are now in a position whereby we can sell tickets to dedicated music lovers without a line up announcement."
Of course, and with no disrespect to the V Festival people, all the really cool kids this weekend were down at the Secret Garden festival. They're still sleeping it off - so I guess we'll find out how it went later in the week.