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Reading Festival
So you might ask how I managed to get into Reading festival at the last minute. Luke's little brother wimped out after camping just Thursday night, ripped his wristband off and went home. Luke phoned me to say they had a broken wristband and so I could easily get into the campsite and probably get into the main arena with it. So I went down on the train, on the off chance of a fun weekend. I got into the campsite fine, tried to swap it for a new wristband at the wristband exchange, but the guy in charge there asked me loads of questions and then wouldn't let me have a new wristband. But then his mate said 'why do you want another wristband when you've already got one on?' and I noticed that my LAST YEAR'S GUESTLIST was in fact very similar to this year's normal camping wristband. So I mooched off back to the campsite, and managed to get into the arena to see bands Friday, Saturday and Sunday because security didn't check me well enough. Heh! So...I saw...
Friday
Stephen Lynch full set
a bit of the rather wank Serj Tankian
Goldfinger
Pennywise where I got squished but lived!
a bit of Rage Against The Machine
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip full set
and the last 3 tunes by Less Than Jake
And then drank til gone 3am and got stoned as fuck
Saturday
King Blues full set
most of Los Campesinos who were fun
most of Black Kids who were also fun, but maybe not fun enough to buy their album (it was my next vaguely pencilled-in album to buy)
Flogging Molly
Justice who did 2 different mixes of We Are Your Friends, and DANCE was cool too
Alkaline Trio despite the tent being rammed
chunks of The Killers here and there
and I saw most of the Manic Street Preachers set but ended up walking home knackered
And I was so tired I slept for 10 hours in a tent through the pissing rain/morning sun!
Sunday
Alexisonfire full set
Adam Green most of set
Lightspeed Champion full set
Dropkick Murphys end of set
Mindless Self Indulgence full set
Feeder full set
and I walked back to camp and then to bus stop with Pendulum playing
Overall a fun weekend! Which was then finished off by a trip to El's, a very loud very crowded visit to the Notting Hill Carnival, and then home for mmmmm bed!
This weekend's plans are simply - camp camping with GYUK board people. |