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#1 VCK

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 06:18 PM

My favourite has to be, hands down, the Manics in 2008, was a truly brilliant way to end my best Leeds. Good thinking putting them on the NME stage because if they were sub headlining Main, the atmosphere would be lost. See: QOTSA '08.

Second place goes to Primal Scream in 2006.

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 06:19 PM

Them crooked vultures/Faith no More easily.

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 06:41 PM

The Mars Volta, Them Crooked Vultures, Faith No More, Peaches, Manic Street Preachers.

Probably forgotten some but oh well.

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 06:45 PM

gene
polyphonic spree
interpol
bdb

to name 4.

and this year little boots.

Edited by thetime, 08 January 2010 - 06:45 PM.


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Posted 08 January 2010 - 08:09 PM

Gaslight Anthem '09

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 09:37 PM

2001 - Ash
2002 - Feeder, The Breeders
2003 -Grandaddy, The Polyphonic Spree
2004 - Supergrass, Soulwax
2005 - The Arcade Fire, The Tears
2006 - Primal Scream
2007 - LCD Soundsystem, Ash (again)
2008 - The Cribs, Justice, The Manic Street Preachers
2009 - Them Crooked Vultures

The best performance I've ever seen on that stage was Arcade Fire in 05. It was unbelievable. :P

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 10:16 PM

best preformances
Faith No More
Manic Street Preachers
Be Your Own Pet

most dissapointing
Them Crooked Vultures

#8 luckysalt

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 10:21 PM

Blood Brothers in 2005 was pretty godamn amazing

I agree with Arcade Fire too, that was mint

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 10:29 PM

I didn't really get a chance to experience TCV in their full glory as we were in the campsite biding our time until Ian Brown so we only caught the last song of their set, and I got impatient and left before it finished!

I should have stuck it out but Fool's Gold was worth the exit.

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 12:22 AM

i would've said tcv but i was a bit dumbfounded that everyone was chanting for dave grohl (and i love the foos, them and oasis are responsible for me being obsessed with music the way i am). Even said to my mate there's a member of led zep on the stage! even dave grohl would concede to this (wish i could've been there to see foos/page/ jones dusting off the zep tunes at wembley).

05 - Kasabian. I loved the album, hadn't seen them, and spent the whole time pogoing, still remember it like it was yesterday.
07 - brand new, had far too much vodka and maulled a few kids in the pit, was actually leaving to go see kol then sic gloria transit started, wasn't going anywhere after that :P sunshine underground and we are scientists were let downs that year.
08 - the music, i could watch this band every day, best band to come out of britain during the last decade. Pendulum deserve a mention as well, just pure havoc and my mate getting molested by a twelve year old girl being one of the festival highlights lol
09 - frank turner, not as good as the lockup the year before as it was more intimate, but that lad has got some belting anthems.
Jamie T - this lad has got a bit of swagger about him, and didn't realise how many tunes he had until i saw him live (well i'd seen him at summer sundae just as he was emerging, and the cider pretty much claimed my memory), which leads onto...
Faith no more, they were never going to beat edinburgh (they finished with pristina for christ sake, and the venue was smaller than the tent strangely enough), but thank god they came back and have been showing everyone how it's done, i've heard the crowd was small but i was on the front row and didn't notice, the crowd behind were damn loud anyway :P

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 12:23 AM

TCV last year were awesome, oh and lethal bizzle not a fan but i was impressed.

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 01:03 AM

crystal castle 09

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 01:14 AM

2006: FORWARD RUSSIA
2007:LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
2008: PENDULUM
2009: THE HORRORS

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 02:33 AM

off the top of my head and in no particular order


cooper temple clause 2003
Faith No More 2009
Ash 2007
The Mars Volta 2003
Electric six 2003 ( just for the mass gay bar singalong!)
TCV 2009

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 03:46 AM

Alien Ant Farm - 2003
Electric 6 - 2003
Kasabian - 2005
Pendulum - 2008
Them Crooked Vultures - 2009
Airbourne Toxic Event  - 2009

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 04:12 AM

either funeral for a friend in 2004 or gallows in 2009

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 11:55 AM

2008: Manic Street Preachers
2009: Airborne Toxic Event or Metric

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 11:57 AM

View PostSpitfire, on Jan 9 2010, 01:23 AM, said:

TCV last year were awesome, oh and lethal bizzle not a fan but i was impressed.


Definitely Agree I didn't realise I knew so many Lethal Bizzle songs

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 12:02 PM

The Vines were class in 2002 as well, I remeber seeing them on tour later in the year cus of the performance and they were all drugged up and were shite. But at Reading they were quality.

Saw some of the Breeders set too and that was class, didn't see much in the tent that year though

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 12:38 PM

08- Vampire weekend, Pendulum, The Cribs
09- Jamie T, Frank Turner




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