We were very tired on Friday morning after all that ‘up-all-night-watching-the-election’ stuff – so much so, we forgot to plug three of the big music events that were taking place this weekend – the Southport Weekender, Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Sunderland and the big VE day bash in London. Ah well, they’ve been and gone now.
Over 15,000 people gathered in Trafalgar Square for the latter of those – the televised finale to the VE day celebrations, sixty years on from the end of the second world war. There were wartime songs from the likes of Katie Melua, Daniel Bedingfield, Will Young, Cliff Richard (of course) and Dame Vera Lynn (of course). All fine stuff, though in a gesture of goodwill surely they could have slotted Kraftwerk in there somewhere.