The Streets and Dizzee set the crowd in a spin at Wireless

On 04.07.2009

As the music played on in London’s back garden, you could feel the excitement as hundreds of fans flocked towards the second stage to witness what would turn out to be a legendary performance from The Streets. With the vivacious crowd creating an enormous noise in anticipation of Birmingham’s finest, the hoard went wild when Mike Skinner et al burst on to the stage with a deafening version of Let's Push Things Forward.

Skinner was a master on the mic, and between him and Leo the Lion, The Streets controlled the delighted crowd with renditions of Has It Come To This, Could Well Be In, Everything Is Borrowed and bringing things down a notch with a emotional version of Never Went To Church.

It was an epic set, lasting over and hour and included classic hits from all four albums. “Put your hands in the air if you’re still alive out there” demanded Mike at one point, which encouraged a mighty roar from the crowd.

All this pandemonium was followed by a no-less chaotic performance from Dizzee Rascal over on the Main Stage. The London-boi-done-good  came on to stage to greet his home crowd, and was rewarded with a mind-blowing scream from the audience. He started with a cover of the Ting Tings’ That’s Not My Name (which featured a great Dizzee twist on the chorus with the line “They call me blud, they call me rooode boy!”), before breaking in to a storming performance of He’s Just a Rascal.

Playing “some of that new s**t” from his latest album including Road Rage and Dirty Cash, Dizzee was on fire. Dropping in blasts of Sound of da Police and Jump before sending everyone crazy with Fix Up Look Sharp, you could tell he was having a good time.

The set ended with a stonking rendition of Bonkers, which induced mass fist pumping and ground shaking. Dizzee was legendary tonight, and London loved him.