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Get Loaded in the Park 2005 Festival Review
Bank Holiday Sunday 28th August / Clapham Common
London’s Award-Winning Get Loaded in the Park Festival 2005 brought the sunshine to the capital on Bank Holiday Sunday, as temperatures soared and a sell-out crowd of 20,000 party people grooved the day away on Clapham Common…
 Get Loaded in the Park returned in hedonistic fashion with a passing glance back to the hazy days of ‘baggy’ and acid-house (Happy Mondays, Stereo MCs, The Farm, Flowered Up) and an eye-opening look forward to the new bands of tomorrow (Infadels, New Rhodes, Oceansize, Buck 65). Mixed up with hilarious consequences by The Comedy Store, those perma-tanned hosts (The Cuban Brothers) and the world’s ‘Nicest’ drug smuggler (Howard Marks), Get Loaded in the Park has reinforced its claim as one of the UK’s most essential summer festivals, with it’s 2nd consecutive sell-out event.
There were many highlights across the day, from the lunacy of Kid Carpet’s incredible live ‘Fisher-Price’ set in the VIP Area, to Snow Patrol’s epic table-tennis battle versus Elbow, Flowered Up’s riotous return to the stage after 13 years away and the ‘Human Jukebox’ performers (select your tune and 3 guys dressed in silver spandex then played it live!). Here are some of our favourite festival moments:-
* Happy Mondays closed the event with new track ‘Jelly Bean’
* Fatboy Slim dropping ‘Star 69’ on the main stage
* The crowd singing ‘All Together Now’ with The Farm
* The Infadels getting sweaty and electro in the Get Loaded Arena
* CD trickery by Armand Van Helden in the Southern Fried Records tent
* 15 minutes of ‘Weekender’ by Flowered Up
* The Stereo MCs getting ‘Connected’ with the crowd
* Elbow and Snow Patrol showing the ‘proper’ DJs a few new tricks
* Paul Oakenfold unleashing ‘Fools Gold’ from the main stage
* An Audience with Howard Marks, new readings from the cult hero
* The Comedy Store’s Junior Simpson had us in stitches
* Free booze, Nando’s chicken and posh toilets backstage
* Aceeeeeeeeed-house from the Junior Boys Own Soundsystem
* The Libertines’ Carl Barat’s rocking DJ set
* The Cuban Brothers showing off their break-dancing skills and all-year tans
Get Loaded Director Danny Newman sums up the mood of the day, "This was our biggest event to date and we are really pleased to have pulled it off for a second year. The whole ethos of Get Loaded is simply about having fun, and it was a great honour to witness so many happy smiley faces around the site. All of the artists did us proud and the sun just topped off everything! Special thanks have to go to everyone who made the day possible, especially Metro, the crowd and of course the local police and council, who without their help this event would never have happened. Roll on next year!!"
Over the course of the day, Get Loaded in the Park raised £3,509 for the Trinity Hospice. Trinity is the only hospice in Clapham that provides total care for terminally ill people, offering its services to a population of 3/4 million people in central and south-west London. For more information, please visit: www.trinityhospice.org.uk
Turnmills Nightclub @ 63B Clerkenwell Road, London. EC1M 5NP
Info: 020 7250 3409 / Tube: Farringdon
www.get-loaded.co.uk / www.getloadedinthepark.com / www.turnmills.co.uk
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