An event so momentous that Osbourne, due to top the entire bill, failed to turn up. For it was on this day that Ozzfest was unleashed on these shores for the first – and last – time. Know what else I loved? Ireland’s one-and-only incarnation of Ozzy Osbourne’s travelling alternative music circus on Sunday 26 May, 2002.Ī date that lives in infamy for thousands of Irish metalheads. Sure, these days I prefer to watch other people ‘Jumpthafuckup!’ when Corey Taylor strategically arranges them to do so, but I’ve earned my stripes and I loved every second of it.
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Generally, this writer has enjoyed a warm time of having the shit kicked out of him at the more rambunctious gigs over the years, from dreadlocked hair peppered with steel decorations whipping back into my face at Slipknot to basically inviting the guys in Converge to step all over my hands by holding their monitor amps in place – a guy stage-dived back-first onto my head during that same performance, it’s a wonder my neck didn’t go full Looney Tunes accordion – to the numerous times Greg Puciato and his Converse runners whizzed by my eyes on the three glorious occasions I caught The Dillinger Escape Plan live prior to their demise. Swings and roundabouts in the trenches, as it were. You can also be met with a suspicious look by grizzled veterans in greying Slayer t-shirts that tells you these lads might not be so quick to help you up if and when the mosh pit overwhelms. You might make a new best friend for about two hours total. You can find these odd tender moments of communion at metal shows. And I swear, dear reader, you really had to be there. One beautiful spontaneous moment later and everyone, front to back, is belting out the chorus, running as fast as we can, to the middle of nowhere, to the middle of our frustrated fears. I recognise a lot of these faces from around town, many of them older than my teenage self, but today we’re all on this mission together, a gang of misunderstood brutes united against the world, ready to unleash our ceaseless collective angst in a vivid flurry of expression the likes of which haven’t been seen sin– hang on, is that ‘Just Like a Pill’ by Pink playing on the radio? Last days of May 2002 and I’m on a bus hurtling from Drogheda to Punchestown, surrounded by a cohort of like-minded souls all clad in black, the rare burst of colour identified by whatever blood-red album art adorns cheap cotton patchwork. 20 years on from Ozzfest's one-and-done Irish leg, please sir, can we have some more? DOMINOĬLIFF RICHARD/CLIFF RICHARD WITH BRIAN MAY & BRIAN BENNETT 100 solid gold tunes from the Official Chart's lifetime, all of them pipped to the post. See you there!Īnd in the meantime, here's a sample playlist to get you warmed up. Pop Injustice: 70 years of iconic Number 2s sees OCC link-up with Mighty Hoopla and DJs of pop club night Push The Button to play you all the tracks you wouldn't believe never hit Number 1.Ĭheck out the full list below, and be sure to come party with us at The Grand’s Pleasure Palace stage, 1.30pm, Saturday 4 June in London’s Brockwell Park. Using our data, we've collected below every single song to peak at Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart - from the first (Guy Mitchell's Feet Up in 1952 if you wondered) all the way to Sam Ryder's recent Eurovision mega-hit SPACE MAN in 2022.Īnd if all this wasn't enough, the Official Charts Company is teaming up with Mighty Hoopla for our first-ever festival slot - dedicated to celebrating the iconic Number 2s of the Official Singles Chart. Getting a Number 1 on the UK's Official Charts is, for many acts both at home and around the globe, a massive achievement - and as the Official Charts Company begins to celebrate our 70th anniversary year in 2022, we're also taking a look back at the biggest tracks that just missed out on the top spot. Sometimes it's just as impressive to nearly get a Number 1 in the UK, as the tracks that only ever peaked at Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart prove.
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