LIVE REVIEW: THE FUTUREHEADS

On the right hand side of our monitor, The Futureheads are playing (and three girls wearing purple Space 1999 wigs are winding their way through the crowd); on the left hand side, erm, this window. This is made possible by the BBC and Playlouder link-up to stream some performances live from the stages. On the grand scale of the other stage, the Futureheads are open and exposed - on one hand, the snog round the back of the chip shop of their songs work really well in providing some bounce for the festival; on the other hand, the 'all the songs sound the same' problem is a lot more obvious when they're blown up this large. Even their TV Personalities cover sounds a lot like the last Futureheads single and, we fear, the next Futureheads single. It's a pity, as we suspect they've got the nous and the moves to offer a selection pack of flavours - instead, it's very much a large packet of the same thing, and even when the biscuit on offer is as lovely as, say, a Bourbon, it makes it a lot less likely you'll want to finish the packet.

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