You wait months for a festival and then three turn up at once. But Guildford's not going anywhere in a hurry, in fact, it's so relaxed it's untrue. It's a family thing.
First up it's those the skunk-haired, cigarette smoking Fuzz Light Years, promoting their delightful new punk pop single, 'Girl Song' on the main stage. They've never been anywhere this spacious before, and they look lost.
Alabama 3 are insanely popular. Either that, or 'that Sopranos band' appeals to a certain demographic in Surrey. Either way, there's no messing from these boys as they launch straight into 'Woke Up This Morning', that Sopranos song. The acid country collective then proceed to demonstrate better choreography than Westlife during 'Hypo Full Of Love'.
'Mao Tse Tung Said' is like a communist rally with raised fists in salutes. It's frightening the neighbours. Larry Love and Reverend D Wayne close with 'U Don't Dans to Tekno Anymore', which, given the crowd of grown up folk fans they seem to have attracted, could be called stating the bleeding obvious.
Watching Tindersticks is like watching someone learn to play guitar, one chord per year, like watching ice ages come and go. Some lose the will to fight and slip into a coma.
What have Pulp been doing for the last year? Did they tell you they were writing a new album? Don't believe them. Never trust a man in beige, especially when he's wearing the same jumper that he did at the Leeds festival last year, for is there more to Pulp than Jarvis? How many of the others can you name? How many of them are there?
They've added one new song, 'Bad Cover Version' to their set since that festival. The rest of their energies have been expended, it would seem, on taking the perceived millstones around their necks - 'Common People' and so on - and beating them into new shapes. All that time struggling for fame, ploughing their lonely furrow, and for what? To abandon that manifesto, throw it all away when they got what they wanted?
Everything before 'Different Class' has been abandoned altogether. No 'Babies', No Razzmatazz, actual or figurative.
'Weeds' and 'Sunrise' are the highlights of the new stuff. But how much new stuff is there? Is the album finished? Prove it. We're waiting.
The band comes back for a single song encore, 'Underwear', due to the strict enforcement of the curfew. This is Surrey after all. Rock and Roll.
