Secret Garden Party // Robot Wars

You’ll have noted already that this is not your average shindig – one glance at the line up will tell you that - but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a nod to the mainstream, to the sort of bands that quicken the pulse and get you thinking “Can’t miss that”.

And so Noize found itself in front of a thousand screaming blonde teenagers awaiting Marina and the Diamonds. By God do we love a girl in a pencil skirt, and she didn’t disappoint. Between handing out “Oh No” comedy glasses and blatantly flirting with our lens, it was obvious that she’s learnt some tricks in the year and a half of their existence. We particularly liked “Seventeen” and, obviously, “I Am Not A Robot”, although whether it was the latter tune or Flight Of The Conchords that inspired the multiple tinfoil and cardboard box outfits we encountered we can’t be sure. Either way, the humans are (thankfully) very much alive, and there was no binary solo. Our loss.

Words by Derek Robertson

Photos by Derek Robertson & Simon Owen