Caleb Slams Reading Crowd

[brighteyes]

Boring crowd for a boring band!

[HoTWire]

KOL are over exposed right now... but then I was following the stick with the rest of the nobos... Faith No More were mind blowingly good.

[Henry_Winkler]

if the quote "We're only five songs in and you've blown Reading to hell. This is for all you people who didn't come for two songs," is correct from Caleb - superb

[Role Model]

Awful band, they're childish and half arsed peformance was actually worse than I expected from them. Hope they're not back for a very very long. The crowd was bored, and rightfully so.

Edited August 31, 2009 by Role Model

[TheSeventhOne]

To be fair, if you actually watched KoL when you could've been watching FNM you have bad taste and you should feel bad.

[she bangs the drums]

kol = terrible band, maybe people are finally realising this. why people would want to see kol over faith no more anyways - god knows.

[Budweiser]

The Real Reading crowd where at Faith no more or billy talent.

[VCK]

KOL could have been a lot better at Leeds. Still, at least they did Slow Night, So Long.

[the_frame]

the real reading crowd werent there mate, I missed not seeing FNM, but the lineup was utter shite and KoL were a prime indication of that rot. Reading has been getting gradually worse for the last 4 years. I wont be going again.

[JonnyHarper]

The Real Reading crowd where at Faith no more or billy talent.

[remote]

To be fair, if you actually watched KoL when you could've been watching FNM you have bad taste and you should feel bad.

[Tony Carter]

Personally I thought the crowd were great for alot of the bands on main stage - I doubt Bloc Party, The Prodigy, Vampire Weekend etc had too many complaints - fact is Kings of Leon were just not very good that night.

[Tomleeds]

I thought they were amazing at Leeds

[Smelly Bob]

mabey kings of leon should get it in there thick hillbilly brains that all of the old fans, who produced the good atmosphere, have given up on them after there terrible mainstream new album and have been replaced by indie kids who are supposive "fans" but really only like sex on fire and use somebody.

[RedFerret]

Like many of the other previous comments... if you had real music taste you would of been at Faith No More, simply put they were fantastic... MUCH better than at Download (largely due being in a tent)

[brighteyes]

Like many of the other previous comments... if you had real music taste you would of been at Faith No More, simply put they were fantastic... MUCH better than at Download (largely due being in a tent)

[wilko8]

Kings of Leon really really pissed me off last night. I like them as a band, I've got all of their albums and have seen them in a lot smaller dingier places than last night, but they've just got far too big for their boots.

Kaleb saying last night - 'this is for those for those of you who've come for more than just two songs' - is ridiculous. If you've written a song, and people come to watch you play it, you should be f**king happy, if that's the only song they like, so be it, it shouldn't matter.

Its them who have courted this fame by touring constantly and going on every possible tv and radio show.....and now they're getting pissed off at the people who made them famous...it doesn't make sense.

They were good last night, but by no means brilliant. I think it'll be quite a while before I'm persuaded to see KOL again!

[Red Day]

KOL are over exposed right now... but then I was following the stick with the rest of the nobos... Faith No More were mind blowingly good.

[micawber]

I had their card marked after witnessing the temper tantrums at Brighton in 2007. Made the right choice and saw FNM instead.

[Explosions_In_The_Sky]

Enjoyed the set musically but the crowd was very weak. I didn't make too much at the time of his comments, I just thought it was banter to get the crowd going.

[faegesubsig]

I got in the tent for Jamie T to get a good spot for FNM (at Leeds) when Jamie T had finished, the whole tent just left, the crowd for FNM was embarrasing, it was just like NIN at Leeds a few years back, I really enjoyed them though I wish they had played We Care a Lot as the last song.

[HoTWire]

Even the God-awful Patrick Wolf had a better crowd.

[VCK]

So what actually happened at Reading regarding Caleb and throwing a tantrum at the crowd?

[dip]

The Real Reading crowd where at Faith no more or billy talent.

[pink_triangle]

Its amazing how different people see things. I saw kings of leon play at leeds to one of the biggest crowds I have ever seen and the crowd seemed to be loving it. I think maybe leeds auidence has a higher proprotion of your mainstream listen to radio 1 type fan as opposed to hardcore festival goers. The impression I got was everyone seemed ot be having a good time singing along to the songs. Musically they were very tight and i would rank them as one of the bands of the weekend.