Caleb Slams Reading Crowd

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

maybe the crowd was shite cause kings of leon are shite! when they played molly's chambers at leeds they slowed it right down and it sounded like boring middle of the road pish. what the f**k?!

[tomisnothere]

Live videos were enough to put me off KOL - I don't like them anyway because I find them a bit boring, but I found the live performances I watched even more boring, especially when they slowed down some of the songs. Molly's Chambers being the worst offender.

[inspectedinspector]

Sort it out.

[jackh131]

Kings of Leon need to shrink their egos sopmewhat I think, they suddenly think they're the biggest band in the world, but the reality is that all the records they've sold in the past year or so are mainly from radio listeners who aren't that serious about their music, with only a small proportion from their loyal fans, I bought the first 3 albums pretty much when they came out, and I bought Only By The Night thinking it would be as good if not better than the first three, but it was a massive step in a different direction for the band, and this alienated most of their old fans, including myself. All the fans at Reading hoping for old stuff would have been annoyed at the large amount of new songs they played, as well as playing old songs at slower tempos which many people mentioned, and the Sex on Fire/Use Somebody fans are probably not experienced gig goers so didn't really get into it much, and this culminated in Caleb acting like a tw*t to the crowd, which was out of order, and would have put off a lot of fans, old and new.

Anyway, I'm almost glad the new album was shit, as it made me see Marmaduke Duke instead who were f**king awesome, great mix of old and new songs, got some great pics but I got pickpocketed on saturday and my camera happened to be in that pocket, oh well, still had a great festival.

[Song Simon]

I'm sure there was a story going around that they'd been paid $500k for that gig - dunno how that works out in pounds, but if I was paid that much to play my songs to tens of thousands of people, I'd be happier about it than that. The audience didn't owe them anything.

I didn't bother watching KOL (seen them before, and probably wouldn't have the chance to see FNM again), but I know this much - over the weekend I completely lost it to bands I barely knew and songs I'd never heard, because they got that reaction from me naturally simply by being awesome in that moment. Just expecting the crowd to enjoy it regardless doesn't really work.

[ArcticMonkeysUK]

KoL were awesome at Leeds - shame what happened at Reading but for me they put on the best performance of the weekend for me - topping even the Arctics (they did play a fair bit from the 1st 3 albums too)

[Ed209]

Proof that the Leeds crowd will always kick readings ass.

[Lithium05]

.... for crap commercial indie bands who have no respect for their audience. Ask the big boys like Pearl Jam, Metallica, RATM, Pumpkins, Maiden, etc who has the best crowd and I guarantee you that not only will they say Reading, but they probably won't even remember that they had to play something called the 'Leeds Festival' to meet contractual obligations.

[Azzy G]

.... for crap commercial indie bands who have no respect for their audience. Ask the big boys like Pearl Jam, Metallica, RATM, Pumpkins, Maiden, etc who has the best crowd and I guarantee you that not only will they say Reading, but they probably won't even remember that they had to play something called the 'Leeds Festival' to meet contractual obligations.

[Flasher]

I've never understood the perennial Reading vs Leeds argument. I understand that people don't want to think they've made the wrong decision, hence why there is always an argument over which company makes the best video games consoles. What I can't understand is that we're all here, all 150,000 or so of us, because we're attending what is essentially the same festival. All that differs is the layout and the days in which the bands play. I'd like to see more inter-festival love! I have nothing but good feelings for my Reading-bound bretheren

[Lithium05]

I've never understood the perennial Reading vs Leeds argument. I understand that people don't want to think they've made the wrong decision, hence why there is always an argument over which company makes the best video games consoles. What I can't understand is that we're all here, all 150,000 or so of us, because we're attending what is essentially the same festival. All that differs is the layout and the days in which the bands play. I'd like to see more inter-festival love! I have nothing but good feelings for my Reading-bound bretheren

[Flasher]

That's like saying seeing a cover band is essentially the same as seeing the original!

[Lithium05]

In what way? I don't see how this means you can say Leeds/Reading is better than Reading/Leeds

[adustlandfairytale]

he was on his man period (noel gallagher can get credit for that)

btw does any1 have a video of what he said? would be really funny to see?

cheers

[Tomleeds]

.... for crap commercial indie bands who have no respect for their audience. Ask the big boys like Pearl Jam, Metallica, RATM, Pumpkins, Maiden, etc who has the best crowd and I guarantee you that not only will they say Reading, but they probably won't even remember that they had to play something called the 'Leeds Festival' to meet contractual obligations.

[Lithium05]

If you can actually proove that and show me youre not just assuming and making stuff up I will willingly apologise

[kmb182uk]

.... for crap commercial indie bands who have no respect for their audience. Ask the big boys like Pearl Jam, Metallica, RATM, Pumpkins, Maiden, etc who has the best crowd and I guarantee you that not only will they say Reading, but they probably won't even remember that they had to play something called the 'Leeds Festival' to meet contractual obligations.

[Ed209]

Like Guns n Roses.

Edited September 2, 2009 by Ed209

[VCK]

That wasn't Guns N Roses. That was fat axel + support

[kmb182uk]

That wasn't Guns N Roses. That was fat axel + session musicians

[Benj]

It was Guns N Roses in the way that Ian Brown this year was The Stone Roses.

[Benj]

Regardless, they still chose to play Leeds and not Reading.

[beLIEveR]

Fair play to them for actually playing Leeds (we were told that they hadn't).

But still, what a f*cking c*nt. The crowd don't bumlick you quite as much as you thought they would, and rightly or wrongly were there to see the two songs that landed you that slot in the first place. So what do you do? You cry and scream that you're underappreciated, and tell the crowd that they're dickheads.

Just take your half a million quid, finish your 90 minutes work, show a bit of appreciation and shut the f**k up.

Edited September 2, 2009 by beLIEveR

[Ed209]

If you can actually proove that and show me youre not just assuming and making stuff up I will willingly apologise

[Ed209]

Sadly, if I remember correctly, I believe they were brought in to boost sales as Leeds had sold a pitiful amount of tickets