Been out at a one-day music festival today, Cheap as Chips (or Chups if you pronounce that right over here). Probably around 10,000 people or so, hard to tell really but looked about the same size as one of those events on Clapham Common. Weather was perfect - warm, sunny and breezy to keep things cooled down when the sun kicked in. The day certainly lived up to its name too - tickets were only $25 and we only managed to spend $15 between us! Cheap as chips. How does this all work out then? Noticed anything missing here? Well, in a world first, this Sloth went through the whole day with nowt but a bottle of water and a coffee. The whole event was alcohol free ("Get into it, not out of it" so they say.) Didn't even really see anyone smuggling anything in. Would that work in the UK?!? Erm, I think not. Made for a very nice chilled atmosphere though - reminded me a bit of The Big Chill.
Excellent music line-up for a Sunday - Fat Freddys Drop (7 piece dub/reggae band), various DJs playing drum'n'bass, breaks and stuff, then topped off by Shapeshifter, who we'd missed seeing in Queenstown. Shapeshifter are a live drum'n'bass act, playing real drums n stuff with wicked vocals. This was their only ChCh show this summer, they sell out everywhere and are live band of the year, best album, best single etc. Not that they have a lot of competition in NZ 
. Anyway, yeh so they played an awesome 90 minute set, going from chilled stuff to some brutalness - we were loving this 
. Excellent end to the summer. Thanks to RDU - great radio station.
Been catching up with a few missing posts this evening too:
Can't believe that this time next week I'll be en route to UK! Very excited, love it. Have picked up a whole load of Fancy That this weekend, no thanks to the Fancy That shop in ChCh though - Mr That we're gonna have to do something about the state of this branch, it's a bit of a blemish on our otherwise untarnished record.
