Isle Of Wight Festival 2014 | Live Review

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Sunday 15th June

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Source: Jenna Young

Olivia Sebastianelli – 3.5/5

We have seen Olivia Sebastianelli before and really enjoyed her set, so we had to go and check her out again when we discovered she was playing the Hard Rock Rising stage. Her set up is very rock, and the music itself is fun and has the audience around her dancing, bobing their heads or, at the very least, tapping a foot.

She keeps asking us to buy her EP, apparently management would be angry if she didn’t. “That song is on my EP please buy it so we can eat dinner,” she says, laughing. As well as playing great music, she presents herself as a nice person who’s music you would want to support anyway, just to help her out.

Source: Official Facebook / Jarrad Seng

Passenger – 5/5

Passenger is a one-man show today, and it seems like it should be weird, one man and his acoustic guitar on a festival main stage playing music and chatting casually to the crowd, but it just isn’t. “It’s just gonna be me today no band, no drums, no gospel choir,” he declares, and as he stops talking the crowd cheers, eliciting a smile from him. “Thank you, most people ask for their money back when I tell them that.” Somehow Passenger, who also introduces himself as Michael (his real name), pulls it off and manages to fill the space.

It’s refreshing to see someone so genuinely humble and grateful playing such a great spot at a big festival. All of Passenger‘s thanks are heart felt, as he tells us last time he was here, he played a small tent to 19 people.

Perhaps the highlight of his set is not his hit single ‘Let Her Go”, which he does joke about, but another track called ‘I Hate‘. “This next one I need you to be obnoxiously loud with me!” he introduces, “It’s about all the things that piss me off.” It turns into a comedy song, with extra little comments added in. After the first line ‘I hate racist blokes telling tasteless jokes‘, he tells the audience, “If you don’t sing along in the chorus nice and loud, you’re a racist.”

It’s a great one man performance that still contained all the crescendos and passion of a full band set, with a little added comedy on the side.

Source: Ellie Mitchell

Fall Out Boy – 4/5

Playing their second festival in two days, Fall Out Boy bring a great setlist to the Isle Of Wight. Playing a great mix of old and new, with plenty of their classic singles thrown in, everyone here has at least one song they know well enough to sing along to. Especially, ‘Sugar, We’re Going Down‘; you can barely hear Patrick Stump over the audience.

Another popular track today is their cover of Michael Jackon’s ‘Beat It‘, which might not have such a loud vocal but it gets everyone moving and a lot of guys up on their mates’ shoulders. For the most part it is crowd moments like this that really make the set. During ‘I Don’t Care‘ one guy stands on his friends shoulders, causing everyone behind him, now slightly impaired view of the stage, to bottle him, cheering loudly when they finally get him down.

As expected Fall Out Boy close their set with ‘My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up)‘. As their comeback single this gets a great response from both new and old fans.. Fall Out Boy are always a fun band live, and today is no exception.

Source: Official Promo

Kings Of Leon – 4.5/5

Keeping up yesterdays new tradition of the headliner appearing on stage late, Kings Of Leon appear 20 minutes late, but as its the final night, everyone seems to have finished off all the alcohol they brought with them and are very drunk/happy and entertain themselves during the wait.

While Caleb Follwill doesn’t talk to the crowd much, you know he hasn’t forgotten your there, as it felt Anthony Kiedis did last night. It doesn’t take much effort on Caleb‘s part either to get the crowd going. Despite most of the audience chanting ‘Fire, fire‘ waiting eagerly for ‘Sex On Fire‘ to be played, they were incredibly happy to sing along to what ever songs they knew.

As is expected, the biggest crowd input comes with Kings Of Leon‘s biggest singles and they close the set with ‘Use Somebody‘. As soon as the song starts the crowd erupts with ‘woah-oh‘s, even continuing to sing them while waiting for the encore.

The encore, unsurprisingly, ends with ‘Sex On Fire‘. The band missed an opportunity for lots of pyro and fireworks here, which would have been a wonderful end to a great weekend, but instead they rely on their music and a few sparks falling from above the main stage. The crowd are having way  too much fun listening to the song they’ve waited the whole set for to worry about such trivial things though.

Kings Of Leon leave the stage, having closed the weekend with a well chosen and executed set. The crowd buzzing, and the festival has ended on a high.

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