How day two looked for me: Click here.

Andrew

Day Two: The Day The Crawl Stood Still. After a marvellously free-flowing Thursday, queue-wise, Friday saw pretty much every venue on the Crawl blocking pavements the length of NW1. If it wasn't the mile-long wait outside Pull Tiger Tail and Cajun Dance Party at Barfly it was the crazed human pile-up trying to get into the Black Cap for Houdoken or the now legendary Crawl pastime of 'Let's See Who Can Get Into The Electric Ballroom Inside An Hour'.
All testament to the superb rock fare on offer though, and today easily surpassed Day One for me: having helped discover the future of rock in the shape of 36 Seconds (a kind of electro doom metal Killers) as one of the judges in this afternoon's Indie Idle competition, it was a sprint down to the Barfly to stagedive over the queue and watch Pull Tiger Tail kick mighty space pop arse at the tuneful indie end of the Klaxons' day-glo spectrum. Then Frank Turner at the Oh Bar was a revelation: the ex-Million Dead feller hasn't turned into a crap folkie as suspected but instead is a firebrand politico-anarchytype thing ranting out top 'don't call them protest' songs about wanting to hit pro-hunt marchers and how kids these days are all thieving, violent little shits.
It was really kicking off in the Black Cap though, where Ali Love played a stupendous rock/funk/punk set of Steve Miller-meets-Selfish-Cunt-at-a-pool-party-round-Prince's-gaff tunes while waving a styrofoam pillar around in a highly suggestive manner, Scroobius Pip hung around with Brett Anderson and White Rose Movement at the bar and the entire place went flaming splatter-hat bezerk for the stupendous Houdoken to the extent that they had to play most of their set from behind a huge wall of bouncers while the sound system itself appeared to be moshing.
And hence, bruised, battered and breathless, we crawl home, a small piece of our brain left behind somewhere in a gutter in Camden. It'll probably be a week-long thing next year and it will definitely kill us.
Mark Beaumont

Just been to see Dan le Sac vs Scroobious Pip, which was great - ended with a stage invasion and everything (though the effect was ruined somewhat by the band asking everyone to calm down before they got into trouble). The band are running a pretty natty competition at the moment where they're asking fans to stick 'Just A Band' stickers on band billboards, or better still, members of bands, take a picture of the scene, and post it on their Myspace. Kids are doing it all over Camden.

Just watching Eamon from Brakes do his solo stuff now. It's a bit like Brakes. On hard drugs.

Paul Stokes

Tim Burgess from The Charlatans has a new Gerard Way haircut, and his band are using their old logo. They're quite heartening in a boring way. Late Of The Pier were a bit chaotic, but quite cool, and Milo didn't use the horse heads, even though I saw them with my own eyes. They were top, mind.

Dan Martin

The Charlatans gig is full of unattractive old people. Am I allowed to say that?

Leonie Cooper

Am doing my 80s-born-in-the-USA-dancing to Late Of The Pier...

Priya Elan