Saturday 16 August 2008

Lostprophets compare crowd to Kenny G fans at V Festival

Lostprophets played a mid-afternoom set on the V Stage at the Chelmsford leg of the V Festival today (August 16), during which frontman Ian Watkins compared the crowd to a Kenny G audience.


The vocaliser, whose banding took the stage at 3.30pm (BST), light-emitting diode the crowd through a series if cheers after playing opener 'Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)', but was unhappy with the lukewarm response.


"You're like a Kenny G crowd!" he aforementioned. "You're at 70 per cent. Time to take it up to C per cent."


During the side by side song, 'A Town Called Hypocrisy', Watkins voiced his displeasure over again. "Lukewarm, medium at topper," he said in response to the crowd singsong. "Let's sustain serious!"


Then Watkins joked approximately the lie of the line-up at the festival.


"We're not quite Alanis Morissette, but we try," he said, perking up as the