Lineup 2014

[sjseabass]

Lucky bastard. How long did The National play for?

1 hour 20. Blinding setlist, blinding performance. Abel <3

[Gucci Piggy]

1 hour 20. Blinding setlist, blinding performance. Abel <3

Oh man that run of Abel > Slow Show > Pink Rabbits, and Fake Empire > Mr November > Terrible Love to close. Damn I need to see them again.

[the wonderwhy]

Anyone else really starting to get into Clean Bandit?

They're really not very good live.

I like Rather Be, but on nearly everything else the whole strings thing seems rather forced, like the have to put them in to make themselves feel different

[sjseabass]

Oh man that run of Abel > Slow Show > Pink Rabbits, and Fake Empire > Mr November > Terrible Love to close. Damn I need to see them again.

Yeah those runs were my highlights for sure. Matt did pretty much all of Mr November from inside the crowd just a bit behind me

So glad to have seen them get the reception they deserve after the horror that was their crowd at Reading '11.

[Gucci Piggy]

Yeah those runs were my highlights for sure. Matt did pretty much all of Mr November from inside the crowd just a bit behind me

So glad to have seen them get the reception they deserve after the horror that was their crowd at Reading '11.

Yeah the crowd at Leeds 2011 was awful, although that performance was what got me into them.

[Babyquack]

Massive thanks to Babyquack for passing on his BST tickets to me - the National were freaking incredible .

Neil Young was alright, but I'm not gonna lie, tested my patience at times with the extended jams. My favourite bit was actually the Blowin' In The Wind cover...

Ah man that sounds deadly! Glad it was good! Abel ffs! :D

[sjseabass]

Ah man that sounds deadly! Glad it was good! Abel ffs! :D

Yeah it was top stuff. I had such a dull weekend planned (just looking forward to the World Cup final really) so it was much appreciated. Is your sister OK?

[Babyquack]

Yeah it was top stuff. I had such a dull weekend planned (just looking forward to the World Cup final really) so it was much appreciated. Is your sister OK?

haha, glad to give you the tickets then! She's grand now, bit of TLC was all she needed to get her through

[sjseabass]

haha, glad to give you the tickets then! She's grand now, bit of TLC was all she needed to get her through

Excellent . Hope you get to see The National some time soon - I imagine they're winding up their touring in support of Trouble Will Find Me now though?

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

They're really not very good live.

I like Rather Be, but on nearly everything else the whole strings thing seems rather forced, like the have to put them in to make themselves feel different

Saw them live last week at Wireless, packed crowd and they were so fucking dull. Didn't deserve the crowd they pulled in at all.

[justanothername]

Massive thanks to Babyquack for passing on his BST tickets to me - the National were freaking incredible .

Neil Young was alright, but I'm not gonna lie, tested my patience at times with the extended jams. My favourite bit was actually the Blowin' In The Wind cover...

To be honest I thought that The National were a bit boring. I never listened to them properly before so I was hoping they would convince me to give them a good listen but that didn't happen. There were a few good moments but I was bored a lot of the time with there performance. Still thought their music was good though but I didn't like their live show but every one else around me seemed to have loved it so it probably is due to the fact I never listened to them. Neil Young on the over hand was fantastic! He was brilliant and those extended jams were great and some of the songs are long anyway (Love Only Love is 10 mins on the album). Found it less tedious than The National somehow.

Also I liked Transgender Dysphoria Blues despite the fact that Laura is a bit of bitch

[dentalplan]

To be honest I thought that The National were a bit boring. I never listened to them properly before so I was hoping they would convince me to give them a good listen but that didn't happen. There were a few good moments but I was bored a lot of the time with there performance.

You said the same about Spiritualized. Maybe it's you.

[justanothername]

You said the same about Spiritualized. Maybe it's you.

You're right

No crap, generic metalcore breakdowns

0/10

[Muppetmark]

Anyone else really starting to get into Clean Bandit?

I thought they were really good supporting basement jaxx in December. Mozarts house was a particular highlights

[Yellow_Fellow]

tbf The National are w*nk

[Guest]

Yeah the crowd at Leeds 2011 was awful, although that performance was what got me into them.

Wasn't it Interpol and The National back to back? I remember being really shocked that nobody was there, I saw a couple of songs from each IIRC. My mate is well into Interpol and dragged all 7 of our group along, everybody else grumbled about them being "really shit" and left after about 2 songs, which surprised me as I thought they were quite impressive, even though they don't interest me. But the most surprising thing was the really poor turnout for both of those bands, I thought they were really popular, maybe it was a bit wrong time wrong place, but I would have thought that Interpol - The National - The Strokes - Pulp on the Sunday of August BH weekend would have shifted truckloads of tickets.

[sjseabass]

Wasn't it Interpol and The National back to back? I remember being really shocked that nobody was there, I saw a couple of songs from each IIRC. My mate is well into Interpol and dragged all 7 of our group along, everybody else grumbled about them being "really shit" and left after about 2 songs, which surprised me as I thought they were quite impressive, even though they don't interest me. But the most surprising thing was the really poor turnout for both of those bands, I thought they were really popular, maybe it was a bit wrong time wrong place, but I would have thought that Interpol - The National - The Strokes - Pulp on the Sunday of August BH weekend would have shifted truckloads of tickets.

Nah Interpol played on the Muse day. It was Jimmy Eat World before the National.

I love Interpol on record but similar crowd problems and them not really suiting the daylight and the stage meant I didn't enjoy them very much either on that occasion. I ditched them a few songs in to see Death From Above 1979. Who were brilliant. Was a good call.

Reading and Leeds just isn't the place for those sorts of bands. Full of pissed teenagers who want to go nuts to metalcore / whatever gets played on Radio 1 and happens to have some guitars in it*. Not so much interested in watching an impassioned performance of Slow Show or PDA.

*I'm not knocking this, by the way. Reading is an amazing place to see bands when they're in this category and I like them - Enter Shikari is always ridiculous fun.

[Gucci Piggy]

Wasn't it Interpol and The National back to back? I remember being really shocked that nobody was there, I saw a couple of songs from each IIRC. My mate is well into Interpol and dragged all 7 of our group along, everybody else grumbled about them being "really shit" and left after about 2 songs, which surprised me as I thought they were quite impressive, even though they don't interest me. But the most surprising thing was the really poor turnout for both of those bands, I thought they were really popular, maybe it was a bit wrong time wrong place, but I would have thought that Interpol - The National - The Strokes - Pulp on the Sunday of August BH weekend would have shifted truckloads of tickets.

Nah, as said Interpol were on the Muse day before Elbow. I thought Interpol were rubbish.

[dentalplan]

Interpol were really good at Glastonbury and it seemed like they got a good appreciative crowd despite being plonked in the middle of Haim, FtP, Paolo Nutini and Skrillex.

[TenInchToenaiIs]

I was so buzzing for interpol and then the geezer turned up in an adidas tracksuit and they were w*nk

[Guest]

Nah Interpol played on the Muse day. It was Jimmy Eat World before the National.

I love Interpol on record but similar crowd problems and them not really suiting the daylight and the stage meant I didn't enjoy them very much either on that occasion. I ditched them a few songs in to see Death From Above 1979. Who were brilliant. Was a good call.

Reading and Leeds just isn't the place for those sorts of bands. Full of pissed teenagers who want to go nuts to metalcore / whatever gets played on Radio 1 and happens to have some guitars in it*. Not so much interested in watching an impassioned performance of Slow Show or PDA.

*I'm not knocking this, by the way. Reading is an amazing place to see bands when they're in this category and I like them - Enter Shikari is always ridiculous fun.

Aha, DFA1979, that'll be why I left also.

I certainly agree with you on that last point, I have no interest in Enter Shikari, but had an absolute whale of a time watching them play to a crowd of people going crazy in lashing rain and tidal waves of mud at midday one year (possibly 2011).

[TenInchToenaiIs]

Arctic Monkeys looking dull

[dentalplan]

Except Cooky. Sick ponytail.

[TenInchToenaiIs]

He looks like a retro Jeff Hardy

[TheSilence]

Were Arctics *that* lackluster pre-Humbug?