‘T for tremendous’ weekend, hung out with Dave Spoon on Friday (was up till silly o’clock listening to old school hardcore jungle techno..rewind!)

Up early to pick up my Sean aka MC Ribbz from Southampton station, boarded the HMS Bigboatmcferrything and sailed across the Solent to the Isle Of Wight. Bumped into a fair few Space Oddities on board!

Arrived on site, sun blazing, music pumping from every stage and thousands of bods all in fancy dress. Check the parade..bonkers! As promised, I checked out the food stalls, and they are getting well serious now. None of your usual bacon baps or chippy wagons. All kinds of global gourmet specialties and fine festival fare to munch on.

The winner of the best festy food was Carl Cox and his mate Hab..check the film for Carl Cooks Habs Kebabs!

The kings of synth pop Kraftwerk were top of my ‘to see’ list. And they didn’t disappoint either. Headlining the main stage in their well known ‘four men standing at lecturns’ formation infront of a whopping great big screen for the visuals. I heard all my favourites and even the newer tracks which I’ll be honest I thought were bordering on trance for me sounded amazing.

Had to scoot over to the Afterburner stage and take over the Djing duties from Bestival Curator and head honcho Rob Da Bank. The DJ booth was built into an inverted Jet engine on a circular stage made with scrap metal. It looked like a set from Mad Max complete with flame throwers and smoke blowers! I climbed up, then had a nightmare nail biter scenario, one of the CD players I normally use was missing! I had to play a track off the remaining CD deck and one from the laptop..but MC Ribbz kept the vibe going and I don’t think anyone noticed that I couldn’t mix for the first few tunes. Luckily a spare CD player materialized and I was back in business..phew!

I played a set inspired by the Space theme dropping in countless nuggets that all flowed together nicely. Off to Tokyo and Seoul next week..so ta ta for now (ttfn)!

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Here’s my top ten Bestival Space Tunes

Jeff Wayne – Eve Of The War (Tom Middleton Remix)
DJ Zinc – Star Wars Mashup
Lindstrom – I Feel Space
Elton John – Rocketman
David Bowie – Loving The Alien
The Prodigy – Out Of Space (Drum and Space Remix)
The Martian – Stardancer
Photek – U.F.O.
Fake Blood – Mars
Jamiroquai – Return Of The Space Cowboy