Mariner
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Just wondering whether anybody else suffers from this?
I don't do any drugs, I stick only to alcohol, but went hard at Reading this weekend and have been trying to find my feet since Monday.
Anybody got any remedies?
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29 here. Went with my 31 year old mate.
Camp in white every year now. It's usually really quiet but this year the camp filled up and the security were filtering people in to white to camp so it was much more lively.
Personally can't stand anywhere else these days. The idea for me is you get battered in the arena/somebody else's tent then go back to the peace and quiet, not have your tent jumped on by a bunch of 16 year old loud mouth fuckwits.
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blink there was plenty of space - and we were probably 10-15 meters behind the barriers.
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Ridiculous how they confiscate alcohol off people going in to the arena. I've seen guys in their 30's having hip flasks confiscated. It's just a money making vehicle, but the staff can be right jobsworths.
Anyways, back on topic....
Best canned beer money can buy in the supermarkets???
Peroni? Asahi? Budvar?
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Blink in '10 was rammed.
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Different people are different. Just remember that. A 15 year old skinny 120lb soaking wet midget might only need £10 a day for breakfast, and a few mars bars/packs of crisps through the day plus a few cans of lager. A 30 year old, 250lb weight lifter might go through 5 meals in the arena, 20 cans of lager, plus merch and spend £350 over the weekend.
I budget for £60 per day personally. I'll easy get through that spending god knows what for a pint and extortionately over priced food in the arena.
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I think you'd be doing very well to get a ticket under face value. It sold out quite a while ago so demand is high. Last year I decided not to go but watched tickets on ebay right up until the Friday morning and the cheapest I saw a single ticket go for was £150. Everybody else had the same idea.
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I imagine the lock-up tent wasn't full because the rest of the undercard wasn't suited to that crowd.
Colour me derranged but it appears to me that Reading Festival gets more and more indie and pop every year. I didn't go this year, because while the headliners weren't bad, the rest of undercard was not appealing at all.
In 2010 the lock-up was packed, and it tells a story about the bands that played that stage and the rest of the festival that year.
One thing for sure is that the lock-up or punk stage at Reading is an itegral part of the festival and if it disappears it'll be a very strong message that Reading is no longer a 'rock' festival.
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Despite not being there, I'm really not envious at all right now. Apart from the fact it's forecast to pish down all day tomorrow, Green day themselves announcing to the entire world that they'll play a 'surprise' performance tomorrow means it will be stupidly rammed. By now I'm sure 80% of the festival goers will know they are scheduled to play. Why are they playing the NME tent anyways? If you're going to do a full announcement, they may aswell stick them on the main stage. What rubbish organisation.
A surprise performance would've been turning up at the last minute under a pseudonym on the lock-up stage where a Dookie set would be fully appreciated.
Call me a killjoy...
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Surprised there isn't more buzz about this festival on here.
Any idea how many tickets have been put on sale? or how many punters last year?
4 days for £96 isnt bad. Possible alternative to Reading?
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- Ban under 18's.
- Ban anyone with an IQ less than 100.
- Increase the size of the arena with more stages (hip hop stage pls, Lock-up stage all weekend, etc)
- Increase the size of the camp site
- Change the companies doing the stalls each year (it get's boring seeing the same ones at all the festivals), and the lower the price of food/alcohol. £8 for a burger/drink is a piss take.
- Keep the arena open later, add more late bars on the campsite
- Allow gas stoves
- Less twats/trouble makers
- Ban onesies
- BETTER FUCKING LINE-UPS MELVIN
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ban people who wear onesies or whatever you call them.
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For some reason, probably because I'm constantly dreading going, I need about 5 shits per day when I'm at Reading.
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I've seen some ropey support acts in my time, but only a few big names stick out:
The Strokes - Big Weekend 2011
Painfully boring. I left to watch different acts and came back several times to check that it wasn't because I was depressed or something.
Guns & Roses - Reading 2010
So bad it was funny. Just absolute dross and an embarrassment to what GnR once was.
Paramore - Reading 2010
I've never seen a band more out their depth before. For a sub their performance was especially powerless, limp, and forgettable.
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Never understood why there are two massive metal festivals in the UK?
Sonisphere seemed to be leaning towards more punk on the undercard last year, which probably attracted more people. Download appear to have adopted that policy this year with a decent line-up, certainly better than previous years - competing with Reading.
I think Soni deserves to go under for announcing a line-up so shite. I think there were about 3 bands on the whole poster I would've wanted to see. What were the organisers thinking?
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How are Paramore a lazy booking?!
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To be honest, how important is the lineup really?
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Ooooooh, I can smell the controvosy brewing down my phone line.
Seriously though, not a hell of a lot better than last year. Sunday is exceptionally poor IMO apart from the headliners (who everybody's seen before). I mean just look at Saturday; The Vaccines, Florence and her PR Machine, and then Kasabian. Sorry, is this V Festival? The only real highlight is At the Drive-in, and because it's the only real highlight so far, the NME will be effing rammed and you won't get anywhere near the front.
Before you all start bitching, lets just watch the ticket sales. They didn't sell last year because the line-up was cack. I doubt they will this year either.
Download for me this year.
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Refused and At the Drive In both making comebacks at Coachella this year, surely one of them must be at Reading?
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Spoiler Alert
1. Vaccines
2. Bombay Bicycle Club
3. The Horrors
4. Cerebral Ballzy
5. Two Door Cinema Club
6. Pete Doherty
7. Yuck
8. Beady Eye
9. Odd Future
10. Frank Turner
11. Friendly Fires
12. Death From Above 1979
13. Noah And The Whale
14. The Joy Formidable
15. Warpaint
16. Bring Me The Horizon
17. Tribes
18. Foster the People
19. Best Coast
20. Letlive
edit, list thing didn't work.
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Some were professional, some weren't.
Guys manning the white pedestrian entrance/exits were okay. Some of the ones going around the camp site were talking shit over the radios and basically acting like normal punters but with uniforms on.
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It's definitely a young festival. It's just a shame that the majority of the kids there are absolute tit ends. I noticed there were more annoying teenie girls than usual this time as well. Lots of Ellie Golding jean shorts and face paints.
I think I'll be heading elsewhere next year. Shame because I love the lock up tent.
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Once again the Festival Republic stage was a veritable smörgåsbord of new music for me.
Bands I discovered who were awesome:
White Denim (Funky, bluesy, high tempo rock and roll. Somebody tapped me on the shoulder and asked me who they were. I was just shouted "I don't know but they fcuking rock!".)
And So I Watch You From Afar (Rock instrumentalists on speed)
Royal Bangs (Sound a bit like Minus the Bear - summery indie rock)
Slam Dunk 2016
in other UK festivals
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Worst venue ever. The bands were amazing but after standing for an hour in the worlds longest queue to get in, not being able to find the stages, and then being met by the tinniest acoustics ever, well I was over it by the early afternoon. Wolvo was 10x better.
The Beat were excellent however.