Once the torrential rain stopped around 7.30pm I headed up to Marlay. I did see a fair number of umbrellas and a small number of chairs in the place. Maybe the security guys reckon that Peter Gabriel fans can be trusted with a few chairs? The ground was in surprisingly good condition considering the amount of rainfall.
The gig was fairly lack-lustre. Crowded House didn't make much of a connection with the crowd, though I only caught about half their set. Peter Gabriel had the gravitas of a senior academic, but he just didn't catch the imagination of the audience. The set list (apparantly selected by those votes on his website) didn't catch the masses, with the exception of Sailsbury Hill & Sledgehammer at the end.