Sledge Festival 2012

"This year's Sledge Festival was like stabbing a butternut squash with a giant pair of scissors in some kind of crazed vegetable-hate". Well, that's what Tom Delaney reckoned, he was there, and so were we. We caught up with the silly old bugger after an all-night session at the Cow's Head pub in Manchester.

"Well it was all over the place". He said. "All sorts of people were going mental you know, Andy Loos were destroyed, tents were set on fire - drugs were everywhere, an average Sledge Festival if you ask me bloke". He said. "At one point, the lead singer of The Unknowns, Ted Erwin through a fit over a pack of fags backstage - all chaos broke lose you know. The atmosphere was great, you could almost trim it neatly with a hedge-saw".

Fictopunk purists The Fishtraps didn't escape controversy either. Apparently a scuffle broke out on the way to the stage during the violent but poncey performance of Signals. The bobbies were called in for a change, the new 'shotgun tasers' were used, but nothing to drop a tampon about. The legendary Hypno Effect ended the weekend with a barbiturate-induced remix of their classic song from their debut album, Muck Bullet with Cheeseroller 2020, which caused utter mayhem in the crowds. Elderly members of the audience survived ith only bruises after a hectic mosh, however a few kids got hospitalized. When asked about this, lead singer Yan Jenson said; "Good".