it did stop pissing and when i got to hyde park @ 7pm,
james brown was still doing his opening act.
that man is old but he sure still can grooove!
he left the stage at 7.30 and we spent the next hour waiting for RHCP to appear....
talked lots of rubbish and anticipated the much warned about "pissing" & "bottle tossing".

pissing: happened right next to us, courtesy of the typical english men.
he did it on the grass & immediately the crowd moved away from him, disgusted.
obviously he wasnt shameful about it, cos he went to stand on the very patch to show the crowd that it's Just pee!

bottle tossing: happened every single time someone climbed on top of a friend's shoulders to get a better view.
the crowd behind gets blocked and so bottle tossing starts, with the idea that the person gets hit & gets upset and gets down.
this happens thru the concert...sometimes just ending up as a tossing war,with random ppl tossing back and forth.

so u end up seeing smirnoff ice, golsch beer & mineral water bottles flying around and trying not to get wet!
VERY impt to be alert as some bottles contain pee.....
while some people threw apples, or whole cups of Carling beer.
the English.
tsk tsk.
uncivilised.

though i was very amused by their efforts of throwing toilet rolls thru the air>> their version of streamers.
and since we have pink, blue, green, purple etc toilet rolls in the country..... they actually looked good.

all in all, the concert was not too bad.
sound system could have been better though.
but i guess with such a large crowd (85,000 i heard...), it was acceptable la.
listen to the concert online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/redhot/listen_again.shtml
too lazy to do the proper linking.