Name: Tenacious D.
Where and when: Main leg, 7.30pm, Leeds
Dress code: For the band, a giant green dragon suit and a wizard's cape. For everyone else, Metallica T-shirts that handily echo the way that the Tenacious D logotype is modelled on the classic Metallica one the headliners take revived. They're friends, you know.
Who's observation: All of Metallica, apart from Lars, from the side of the stage. Plus, the torment number of people in the humans who think Jack Black films are funny. And some jocks.
In a nutshell: They were never supposed to be the second headline act, just Joey from Sllipknot skint his ankle so what can you do? You can watch a great band play the like songs over and over for long time and ne'er lose the thrill, only when you see the same stand up act more than erstwhile you'll need a refund. And Tenacious D live or die on whether you think Jack Black is a daring funniness maverick or a fat jock. We're with the second camp, but the festival crowd are with the entire east coast rock fraternity.
High pointedness: We won't deny that Tribute is quite a salutary song.
Low breaker point: Guardian people sometimes get upset about Judd Apatow movies, but at least they're funny. Fuck Her Gently gave jejune a bad name and so, and that was 2001. Now it sounds dated as well as nasty.
On a scale leaf of 1-11, how difficult do they rock?: Not identical hard. 4
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