Magic Streets

FOR those who didn't experience enough of 1995 the first time around, lower league Britpop revenants Shed Seven came to the Radio 1/NME stage for a late afternoon with a reminder of what T in the Park sounded like way back at the start. Singer Rick Witter has worn the years well.
There was no mucking around with obscure album tracks; this was a short, sharp half hour of their most recognisable hits, and the crowd, starting to bulk out after the early afternoon's rain, responded well.

Songs like Disco Down were sparky enough to get the audience shaking the mud off and the singalong which greeted closing track, Getting Better, felt winningly spontaneous.

In the late afternoon, just as the rain began to temporarily clear, the NME stage was graced with the presence of indie Britpop veterans Shed Seven who drew in a considerably large crowd.
Lead singer Rick Witter bellowed out a string of indie classics such as ‘Going For Gold’ and ‘Chasing Rainbows,’ treating the audience to a ‘greatest hits’ set rather than a selection of obscure album tracks. The English rockers from York appeared to be very much still intact, despite a previous four-year hiatus, and were revelling in their recent return to the big stage.