Today's THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge T-shirt comes all the way from the summer of 2004 and represents the collective efforts of my college chums and I partying hard at the Chelmsford V-festival.
It all started with Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club. That was the glorious title that stared back at us from the lineup printed on the lanyards we were excitedly surveying having just completed the construction of our campsite. We couldn't resist a band name as ludicrous as that, so their set was our first port of call on opening day over at the Music Choice tent.
When we arrived, T-shirt clad stewards grabbed each of us by the arm and pounded a Jerry Fish ink stamp onto the backs of our hands. We were told that if we saw 4 more bands in this tent and collected skin stamps for each of them, we would be rewarded with a free T-shirt.
The magic words.
"Free T-shirt"
As important to me today as back in 2004 - more so even! A free T-shirt just for training 20% of my full sensory capacity at a tent.
Well, those words settled it; we were committed. One Inme set, one The Concretes set, one The Infadels set and one Mohair set later, my friends and I became the proud owners of these Music Choice T-shirts, featuring the brand logo on the front chest section, and the full array of band ink stamps scattered across the back.
