Sunday 22 May 2011

Twisted Wheel's set review and photos from Friends of Mine Festival, Manchester 21/05/11

The 2011 festival season kicked off in fine style this weekend, with a brand spanking newie - Friends of Mine, Manchester. Set in the beautiful grounds of Capesthorne Hall, just 14 miles south of Manchester. Very well organised with two arenas and plenty of stages, two camp sites (and nice toilets - with sufficient paper!!) a birthing pool (well it looked like it), a big wheel and plenty more -  to celebrate the best of the Manchester Scene (and beyond)

Saturday night and Twisted Wheel played the Lake Stage. The storm clouds had gathered but with the huge crowd of over 3,000 crammed infront of the stage they managed to generate enough heat to keep the rain at bay.
 With the chants of 'Wheel' eminating from everywhere, the lads finally took to the stage (a little later than advertised due to the previous bands taking a little longer to offload their gear than anticipated) and proceeded to set the festival on fire with 'Lucy The Castle', 'Racket', 'Shes a Weapon', 'One night on the Street' and 'Strife'. The newie 'New Boy' getting an excellent response due to the demon guitar solo.


 With Jonny suffering from a slight sore throat, the audience were only too glad to help by singing along, word for word, in perfect time, 'We Are Us', 'You Stole The Sun' and 'Oh What have you Done'

The crowd loving every drop and not wanting the lads to leave the stage, Jonny pleaded with the organisers to do one more, but it wasnt to be.



Neverthe less, it was a rip roaring set, with I guess many new Twisted Wheel fans being added to the ever growing list. 




# all words and visuals by Jane, if you want to use them feel free, but its only polite to ask!#

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