Reading sum up, funny so thought I'd share!

[Alcatraz]

Dang, that's the one I wanted to see but couldn;t be bothered keeping it on through the thick and thin. They due back on later?

[timespeedsup]

Nah they just showed one song (Epic). I'm thinking more of the set will be on the website

[Alcatraz]

One song is surely enough to spot Scott in the crowd!

[timespeedsup]

Good luck with that

[Red Day]

Haha no way

KoL not happy with their set so they've pulled the coverage. What divas

[staggerlee]

I was at a party in a friend's garden the other day. I got into a conversation with a group of randoms all my age (22). All of these chaps attended Leeds festival last year and indeed are attending this year. They all spoke of the joy they got from burning tents, I asked one of them why do such a thing, his response 'well you know everyone else is doing it, so what you gonna do just like stand there like a dickhead and not do it'. Profound eh.

By the end of the night I wanted two thirds of the bastards dead, especially after they started discussing how funny 'bumfights' is. They tried to argue that a show which films homeless people bring thrown into a river whilst asleep does not constitute as abuse as they are bums.

Worst thing is they are more than enthusiastic about attending Glastonbury 2010.

Edited August 29, 2009 by staggerlee

[jackass]

I was at a party in a friend's garden the other day. I got into a conversation with a group of randoms all my age (22). All of these chaps attended Leeds festival last year and indeed are attending this year. They all spoke of the joy they got from burning tents, I asked one of them why do such a thing, his response 'well you know everyone else is doing it, so what you gonna do just like stand there like a dickhead and not do it'. Profound eh.

By the end of the night I wanted two thirds of the bastards dead, especially after they started discussing how funny 'bumfights' is. They tried to argue that a show which films homeless people bring thrown into a river whilst asleep does not constitute as abuse as they are bums.

Worst thing is they are more than enthusiastic about attending Glastonbury 2010.

[BlackHole2006]

I was at a party in a friend's garden the other day. I got into a conversation with a group of randoms all my age (22). All of these chaps attended Leeds festival last year and indeed are attending this year. They all spoke of the joy they got from burning tents, I asked one of them why do such a thing, his response 'well you know everyone else is doing it, so what you gonna do just like stand there like a dickhead and not do it'. Profound eh.

By the end of the night I wanted two thirds of the bastards dead, especially after they started discussing how funny 'bumfights' is. They tried to argue that a show which films homeless people bring thrown into a river whilst asleep does not constitute as abuse as they are bums.

Worst thing is they are more than enthusiastic about attending Glastonbury 2010.

[feral chile]

I've only been to Reading twice, and it was bad then. The group of lads in the next tent kept trying to wind my husband up by leering at me in front of our son, who was then 11. (I'm in my 40's). It was done in an aggressive, offensive way, they were obviously spoiling for a fight. They peed over the tent during the night, ran practically over the top of the tent screaming their heads off, and left my son terrified. I've not been able to persuade him to go to a festival since. We left halfway through Sunday evening, missing most of the lineup but thankfully also escaping most of the carnage.

The following year I went with my friend. Within 10 minutes of getting there a group of boys walking behind us on the muddy path threw a bottle, which smashed against my friend's leg. She carried on walking until her boot felt wet, and she realised she'd been cut and her boot had filled with blood. So we ended up spending some time in the first aid tent where most of the others in need of help were completely off their faces.

I had tried to persuade her to camp in one of the quieter campsites, but being a Glastonbury veteran from the halcyon days, she said she preferred somewhere a little more lively. She had her tent robbed over the weekend, and ended up shellshocked by the Monday morning mayhem.

As I was getting out of my tent first thing Monday morning, the girl from the next tent shouted 'duck!' just as a huge thick cloud of choking black smoke and smouldering debris came flying right at me. A group of boys were burning tents, despite the fact that it was a very blustery day. Large sections of burning tent were caught by gusts of wind and went sailing over our heads.

To be fair, most of the other people around us were arguing with the boys and trying to get them to stop, and security came and put the fire out soon enough. But not before we'd had to breathe in all thaat noxious smoke.

When my friend saw the devastation left behind - the rubbish strewn around and the damage caused, she vowed never to go back to Reading.

Edited August 29, 2009 by feral chile

[Alcatraz]

Fair play to Arctic Monkeys doing a cover of Red Right Hand

[BlackHole2006]

Fair play to Arctic Monkeys doing a cover of Red Right Hand

[timespeedsup]

Fair play to Arctic Monkeys doing a cover of Red Right Hand

[BlackHole2006]

What time are Radiohead on?

[jackass]

Does Alex Turner always sound that drunk when performing live?

And I can't wait to see radiohead play tomoz! Reading doesn't know what is coming for them!

[BlackHole2006]

tbh radiohead arent anything special on this tour, i seen them in manchester and it was boring and not loud enough (unless thats just coz the sound was being blocked by tall people

[timespeedsup]

tbh radiohead arent anything special on this tour, i seen them in manchester and it was boring and not loud enough (unless thats just coz the sound was being blocked by tall people

[Frogger_Queen]

Thats a horrible story and i have heard many of them but this one beats them all you must have been so damn relived to get home and away from this festival i only hope that in future years these kind of people do not end up taking over Glasto because that would be the end of this legandary festival

[Zacko]

Radiohead played Creep, interesting...

Get them back to Glasto! They don't look right at Reading

Edited August 30, 2009 by Zacko

[Alcatraz]

Radiohead played Creep, interesting...

Get them back to Glasto! They don't look right at Reading

[safe]

as an 18 year old with two reading's and one glastonbury behind me I feel I've have a pretty decent experience of the kind of stuff that happens at reading and can compare it to glastonbury. last year just walking around the site on sunday night made you realize how lots of the 'younger people' there didn't go for the music, or if they did it was for very few bands, (probably bloc party but I shant be too stereotypical....). the toilets were trashed, people's belongings were trashed, and reading don't make the situation any better by having absolutely no entertainment in the evenings apart from a fairly shitty funfair and a silent disco with huge queues. consequently out of about 15 friends who went to reading last year none have returned this year, and of the ones that went to glastonbury they all agreed it was an amazing experience and more of us will be returning next year.

okay, snobby teenager late sunday night rant over/ i'm just jealous i'm not watching radiohead...

[timespeedsup]

Yes, a bland performance IMHO.

Although I'm starting to realise that maybe I don't really like Radiohead at all

[crimsonking]

My one and only trip to Reading was in 1981 (NWOBHM and all that), I recollect then that there was little to do other than see bands and get drunk, zero entertainment after the last band finished so feral youths ran amok around the campsite. Seems like in the intervening years little has changed. It is a horrid little fest which deserves to sink without trace.

Edited August 31, 2009 by crimsonking

[brighteyes]

It is a horrid little fest which deserves to sink without trace.

[adrianro]

Well Im 34 just got back from Reading, camped in white (much more chilled)didn't see any trouble, but I appreciate it does go on, but had an amazing time, been to Glasto and loved that, there are young kids at Reading and it does seem to be getting younger, or maybe Im getting older, but the great thing about Reading is the band tent access you can pretty much get to all the tents within a 5 minutes walk, wouldn't put anyone off either festival as both had different dynamics, that make them great, cant wait for Reading and Glasto next year.

[VCK]

I came back from Leeds last night and it made me realise that it doesn't even come close to touching Glastonbury in terms of what makes a great festival. For one, Glasto ended on a truly mindblowing headline set by Blur, whereas Leeds was closed by a mediocre performance by KOL.