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Sun 26 Jul – The 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch Festival

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Only got a ticket for this the day before. £15 for loads of bands seemed too good to pass up.

Weather was OK to start, and the light drizzle later on wasn't enough to spoil things. I was still OK in a t-shirt. But then I'm no Southern Jessie.

From the off the organisation was a bit of a shambles. Stage times bore very little relation to the website details or free-sheets given out at the entrance. With 2 tents and the main stage to get around this meant I missed most of 2 bands I wanted to catch, in that many bands played well BEFORE the billed times. At least one played a different stage to the billed one...

So that's my only gripes out of the way.

Poppy & The Jezebels were entertaining enough for a first act on the main stage. Some pleasant young ladies with some quirky, simple pop melodies. …