Whilst wearing shoes that were not suitable for snow (despite being warned of this on the ticket, it was a rebellious move) and clutching a tea in a polystyrene cup I walked on the snow where 2 familiar faces stood infront of the snow-built half pipe - it was Zane Lowe himself and Jools from Million Dead. I was able to have a bit of a chat with Zane without him being carried away on a group of teenager's shoulders and plugged some important things, such as this crappy Zine I have and this band I'm in...We then spent the rest of the evening outside of Xscape touching each other's faces and talking of 'our future'.

The Holiday Plan came and went with a whimper (more half-arsed emo, one suspects), but afterwards one of the best acts I have ever bore witness to took to the stage next - The Goldie Lookin Chain. Hyped by NME (amazingly, but then again they do have a "the" in their name so I guess they qualify) this chav/weed-hop 10 piece hailing from Newport took us into another world, a world of humans wishing they were robotic and mothers with the wrong genitalia.

After briefly attempting to look like I wasn't scared shitless whilst being briefly interviewed by Jools from Million Dead to the MTV2 film crew - which, from memory consisted of her asking me if I had ever been snowboarding... I think I turned around for about 9 seconds to watch some snowboarding before replying, "No." It wasn't a shock to see that this footage was omitted by MTV2 editorial team in the final broadcast of the event...

Kill Kenada then took to the stage and played a shaky version of 'Red And Black' (the blame lied on a guitar that kept cutting out). After a guitar swap and with a screech of feedback, Zane walzed onto the stage and re-introduced the Bognor Regis threesome. I hoped they'd play 'Red And Black' again, but unfortunately they moved on to their slightly less tantalising 'Choke'. This was my first witnessing of the band since the 'Red And Black' single was aired on tv and won me over, I suddenly felt a unique sense of excitement. The one that prompts you to search your CD rack in despair at home afterwards, to find nothing that beats the band you just saw... Who don't have an album out yet. The drumming was just brilliant, unlike most drumming his was concious to the song, it was as if the guitarist was drumming because they went so well together. Another thing that gels well is the guitar and bass work, again they move along very conscious of each other and can get away with playing different things altogether and it still sounds good (listen to 'Massachusetts Murder Medallions'). It was impossible to ignore the almost possesed screams of "WE'VE GOT NO REASON... TO LIE!" and my attention was solid throughout the set. Especially at the end when Tim became so immersed in the song that he felt it necessary to slam his bass to the ground and stage dive into me, I didn't mind though and I was actually rather proud of my temporary black eye.

Following a poorly timed wait in the snow of about 30 mins, Jetplane Landing set up. It was worth it they kicked off with 'Acrimony', (killer riffage) and play a fine set. Guitarist Cahir was certainly not put off by the cold as he danced around frantically with his Mr. T stickered Gibson SG and Andrew, as ever had fire in his belly. The whole band have reached a musical enlightenment, I feel, I think they've reached a higher level musically and they seem extremely comfortable together and as a unit. This is certainly their year.

Million Dead were the last band to come on, and I found them to be a little disappointing compared with other times that I had seen them, it's hard to criticise a band that had made the effort to play in minus 3 degrees weather as that is probably their reason for not giving it their all. They played 2 new songs, brandished with extremely cheeky names 'I Gave My Eyes To Steive Wonder' and 'Tonight, Matthew...' which only the always-smiling Frank Turner could get away with.

As a gig it was very good, as a day it was brilliant. But it was rather badly planned, if they hadn't put such great bands on the stage I would never even have bothered braving the cold, I doubt it'll happen again but it was... unique.