2013 Lineup

[Tobieski]

The crowd was shockingly small for NIN, bands like We Are The In Crowd appeared to have more substantial crowds then they did.

[Babyquack]

One of my favourite moments of the weekend came right at the end when Simon Neil said "We are Biffy-fucking-Clyro. And you... You are rea-fucking-ding!"

[jonodillieono]

The Joy Formidable opening the mainstage in 2010 had a bigger crowd than Nine Inch Nails at Leeds

[Areophobia]

Its because NIN get such low coverage. Virtually never mentioned in any of the major music mags nor featured on music channels. They are very much underrated. When they turn up as sub headliners at R/L half of the crowd will have never heard of them.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Its because NIN get such low coverage. Virtually never mentioned in any of the major music mags nor featured on music channels. They are very much underrated. When they turn up as sub headliners at R/L half of the crowd will have never heard of them.

[Areophobia]

Throwing a shitfit 'cause they can't have their lights isn't gonna help that, either...

[luckysalt]

Just got back from Reading, didnt really see a bad set all weekend.

What I will say is weather was fantastic, camped in White and had a great chilled atmosphere and an older crowd until last night about 2am it started to kick off a bit with some pissed lads saying they were gunna burn peoples tents down and that and singing really badly for 2hrs, I think they thought they were really funny but they were just boring as were the Alan and Steve chants.

Music wise Tomahawk were one of the best for me all weekend and they had a decent crowd, not full but decent, FOB had a HUGE crowd then everyone fucked off for NIN who had the smallest mainstage crowd I saw all weekend at the start but once he kicked up the set to the more upbeat stuff the crowd size doubled.

Didn't watch Biffy, tried to watch Knife Party but couldn't get anywhere near the tent the queue was about 200 people deep, I stood at the back and couldn't even hear a thing from the tent, watched some of Wretch 32 and Enter Shikari and then just walked about, catching bits of Biffy here and there. They sounded good.

Skindred absolutely smashed it and I think they made a lot of new fans, Deftones started dodgy but won over the crowd I think. System started strongly but kinda lost they way during the set I thought, was nowhere near as good as Download 2011, set was under a hour wasn't it? Which was disappointing. Green Day were good IMO, a LOT of the crowd fucked off once they started playing dookie though, which they performed really well.

Eminem was really enjoyable and Tame Impala were fucking fantastic, I also thought FIDLAR smashed it.

Had a really good weekend and also met Beez and his mrs in the wetherspoons on the Saturday day time which I spent most of the day in

[Millar95]

Biffy were easily the band of the weekend for me, absolutely brilliant! Had a really good weekend despite the shite weather at Leeds, and surprisingly I saw very little trouble, and I was for some reason expecting to see a lot.

Edited August 26, 2013 by Millar95

[Hart Attack]

I saw a LOT of NIN t-shirts around over the weekend, which was encouraging... but the crowd was still pretty thin, even near the front.

[Mouseboy11]

So there was suppose to be an Arena tour announced by one of the Sunday bands last night and nothing has happened, wonder who it was.

[Andre91]

Oh, just as a side note. Folding Stars was beautiful.

[VCK]

no there isn't.

[Yellow_Fellow]

There certainly was this year. Last year, all the days were mixed up, but there was in 2011 as well. In fact, there was two in 2010.

[Muppetmark]

Skindred absolutely smashed it and I think they made a lot of new fans, Deftones started dodgy but won over the crowd I think. System started strongly but kinda lost they way during the set I thought, was nowhere near as good as Download 2011, set was under a hour wasn't it? Which was disappointing. Green Day were good IMO, a LOT of the crowd fucked off once they started playing dookie though, which they performed really well.

Edited August 26, 2013 by Muppetmark

[Com Truise]

So there was suppose to be an Arena tour announced by one of the Sunday bands last night and nothing has happened, wonder who it was.

[thetime]

How did the editors go down? Big or small crowd?

[lightning1000]

Really small crowd at Leeds, although still bigger than nin. They were amazing but their set was at least an hour too short.

[Com Truise]

It was pretty small at Leeds, yeah, they were really great though, Tom's voice was brilliant and I loved the set

[thetime]

I heard they cancelled some music at leeds, or was it just the after hours stuff?

[Com Truise]

I heard they cancelled some music at leeds, or was it just the after hours stuff?

[Muppetmark]

yeah they cancelled relentless quite a lot because the fields were absolutely fucked, don't think they cancelled any bands, although I did miss Frank Turner and Bastille so I could dry off before SOAD.

Does anybody know if Iggy Azalea turned up at Leeds? A$AP did so her travel excuse is bull if she didn't go. It would be funny if she did turn up and nobody had bothered to go. Serve her right.

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

Did she turn up at Reading? I walked past the dance tent and it was really packed so I looked who was supposed be on and it was her but DJ Friction was still on so I assume she didn't turn up to either?

[Com Truise]

iggy didnta

also you missed frank turner? unlucky man

[Andre91]

I heard they cancelled some music at leeds, or was it just the after hours stuff?

[thelionsmouth]

How did the editors go down? Big or small crowd?