"While the Download Festival didn't quite deliver on its promise to connect artists and audience (the ballyhooed master classes were downgraded to autograph sessions and big names avoided the Q&A stage altogether), Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock bridged the divide with one offhand comment encouraging fans in the back of the half-empy venue to take the open seats in the front section. Anarchy ensued. The gleeful but cash-strapped alt-nation barrelled past ushers and spilled over rows as Brock barked the apropos opening lines to "Float On": "I backed my car into a cop the other day/ Well he just drove off, sometimes life's OK." (Boston Globe)
Yep, that was me and my friends barrelling past security and climbing over seats to get within 30 feet of the stage so we could tell Johnny Marr how much we loved him. Ahhh... heaven is an alternative rock concert.
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