30th August 2000

Well, all's well in the land of JoJo at present...

I got a B in the GCSE Maths exam, so all the panic was for nothing... I'm actually quite proud of that, seen as I fell asleep during the second exam and everything.

Other members of the crew's results include Chris' B, Daws' B, Sarah's C (everyone was shocked by that, but she passed didn't she???), Goat's C, Lisa's U (oopsie), etc. etc. etc.

Sam and Alan (no longer valued as anything other than a waste of oxygen and hated enemies) got a C and a B. Of course Alan wasn't surprised, God told him in a vision that he would get a B. Hmmmmm. Whatever Alan.

Loobrush got a C, Nat got a C, Lee M got a C, Mr O got a C, Cheboggle got a D, Jonny Hogan got a D, etc. etc. etc. ... who cares???

Also, other big news... the festival DUH!!! See the photos here!

Anyway, the festival was INCREDIBLE. I'm still buzzin'. That might be because of the gorge lads, the brill bands, or maybe just because I was high (supposedly) on LSD. (Dammit if Adam calls me Lucy again I'll kill him!!! i.e. Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds...)

Anyway after we got our dudey pink wristbands (which I refuse to take off, by the way) we went straight into the moshpit. A band called the Supersuckers were just setting up, and after about 25 seconds I met this really, really cute dude called Henry. Which scarily kinda suited him.

Anyways, Sarah just rolled her eyes at me 'cos I'd pulled within a minute. He was really sweet, too sweet actually. He held my hand in the moshpit. That made me laugh.

Soon after that I lost him, so we decided to pass time by booing Daphne and Celeste off stage. Now THAT was fun!!! I remember some dude wading through the crowd to the moshpit with a dozen eggs held over his head. Everyone was cheering and shit, it was dead funny. When they came on everyone was screaming "OFF!!! OFF!!! OFF!!!" and "GET OFF THE STAGE!!!" and they both looked terrified. After three songs they got dragged off stage by their manager or something. Everyone went wild!!! It was soooooo much fun.

Then, Blink came on. The moshpit was really really heavy, especially 'cos everyone was about a foot taller than me. I had to pull myself up on other people's shoulders to breathe. I lost Sarah due to some dude offering me a drink of water. Now normally I would've thought about it, but when you're that hot and thirsty, caution is thrown to the wind. I happily took the whole bottle.

Soon after that everything got weirder. I couldn't see Sarah anywhere, but I forgot she'd gone after about five minutes and just moshed with a bunch of strangers. Everyone was all slow and colourful, and I couldn't stop laughing.

And then I found HIM.

I call him Swampy, but his real name's John. He's from Manchester. He's 16, blonde hair, deep sparkly greeny-blue eyes, goatee, few inches taller than me. Very, very cute. But not cutesy-cute.

He saw me drifting in the crowd, not really having a clue what the fuck was going on, and came to say hi, or rescue me or something. I don't actually know why he came to talk to me. Must just be because I'm gorgeous LOL :)

We swopped names, moshed to Blink, and agreed to go crowd-surfing when "Dammit" came on. Then Mark (dude out of the band) started singing "It would be be nice to get a blowjob" so every fucker joined in. I was just stood there giggling like a twat, and I turned round and looked into his eyes. And everything faded away. And trust me, that's pretty bloody amazing in a moshpit. I just smiled and said "You'er nice. I like you." (Mmmmmmm, subtlty was never my strong point) and he kissed me. In the moshpit. With 50,000 lunatics bouncing round like they'd got cockroaches up their asses. And we were kissing there, with all the TV cameras on us. And it was cool.

Then "Dammit" came on and I was like "Wooooooooooo!!!" and he just grabbed me by the waist and flung me into the crowd. Crowd-surfing is officially BRILLIANT!!! Except when they chucked me into the mega moshpit (a circle within the moshpit; more space, but alot more hectic). I hit the floor HARD. My back kills now, but then I didn't even feel it. I just laughed, and grabbed a pebble for Adam (he said he wanted a souvenir!!! LOL). I don't know why I thought of him when I was falling. It was really weird, I fell really, really slowly, even though it was probably only a second or two.

Everyone's faces and T-shirts and the lights on stage and the rain smeared into all different vibrant colours. My head was a giant paint-box, exploded all over the mud. And I loved it.

I got picked up, and I went crowd-surfing again. the only way out was up, and I was getting kinda sick of this non-breathing thing. Some scary security dude grabbed me by the back of my jeans and flung me out of the crowd. Everyone gormed at me as I walked out giggling. Mark smiled at my "Barbie Is A Slut" T-shirt. I am so proud.

We eventually found Sarah. I think we got off kinda light considering the circumstances. C'mon... I was looking for a average looking girl (no offence Sarah babe) with a ponytail, a hoodie, and a pair of blue jeans. Sounds like the most impossible task in the world, but don't forget I went with Miss Organised!!! (Thank God)

Introduced her to John. Se rolled her eyes a bit more, and probably thought about how much she needed a baby wipe to get the dirt off her face.

Anyways, I lost him to the stronger side of the moshpit when Rage came on. They were good, although they fucked up "Sleep Now In The Fire", they made up for it on an encore version of "Killing In the Name Of"... 50,000 poeple screaming "FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME" at the top of their voices is just TOO cool...

Then it was Slipknot. You can tell they're a touring band, they knew exactly how to contol the crowd. They had a moshpit of 50,000 people knelt down in the mud, then jumping up and down like loonies. I saw it on camera, it looked incredible. Like a sea of drowning people. But in a good way.

Then Placebo came on. They were amazing, as always. As they stepped on stage, the heavens opened and there was lightning flashing everywhere. The atmosphere was literally electric!!! They sung alot of stuff off the new album, Black Market Music, and the shit everyone knows.

Missed the end of Stereophonics, but I already knew they were good live. Oh well.

So that was my day at the festival!!! Me and Swampy are still in contact, and we're gonna meet up. Yippeeeee!!!

- Jo xxx