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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: _tom_ on August 22, 2008, 08:17:58 PM
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Who else didnt get to go and is jealous? I'm watching the highlights from earlier on tv now and really wish I was there. Even though the bands arent great (until RATM, QOTSA and Tenacious D on sunday) the atmosphere seems great.. I think I'm gonna buy tickets for next years on Tuesday when they come out on prerelease :P
Fratellis are on BBC3 now, not my favourite band but the tone of their 335 and Les Pauls through what looks like hiwatts and black cats sounds GREAT :)
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i would have loved to go this year for RATM.
we tend to do 2 year stints every few years then give it a break, i always like reading though
we would have been there this year but too many of my freinds seem to be getting married this summer, we thought there was a clash and missed out on tickets.. but the weddings were last weekend and two next weekend :(
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I thought this was going to be about books
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Me too or about reading music.
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It would have been more interesting methinks
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I work near Reading & HATE festival week. Reading is a dump at the best of times but its even worse when the great unwashed descend on it - all the crusties in their ancient dormobiles blocking the roads etc. The whole place stinks of pi55 for weeks afterwards. Perhaps I'm becoming intolerant in my old age, but I just wish the Thames would rise 20ft & sweep the whole thing away... :) (it's a joke, people :D)
I did go & stand outside in '95 (or was it '94?) when RATM first played there...
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That post makes you sound like a right miserable old fart Antag :lol: I guess it would be quite annoying though if you lived there and had no interest in festivals..
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I haven't been since what I believe was "the last one on the old site" (80s, some time?).
Sigh... SRV, we'd heard the name but we had no idea what he would be like. "Texas" meant ZZ Top to us. He played on the Saturday afternoon and BLEW OUR MINDS...
The first thing I did when I got home (after the obligatory "post-festival emergency poo", obviously) was rush out and buy Texas Flood (needed to go to a specialist shop to find it) - and it was even better than I thought it would be...
No my festival days are over. Instead I go to cricket matches at Lord's to get covered in beer and sh1t by some p1ssed w@nkers from Essex sitting behind us... :roll: - I'm getting old too Antag :D
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That post makes you sound like a right miserable old fart Antag :lol:
Yeah, I know :lol:
I guess I went right off Reading when the "alternative"/"grunge" crowd hijacked it in the early 90s. Perhaps it's gone back to being a "rock" festival in recent years, but my festival going days are over & the local disruption is just a pain in the arse (I always seem to forget it's festival week & get caught in some godawful traffic jam... :roll:)
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WTF! I just watched all the highlights that I sky +'d and they didnt show any RATM, instead they had the full sets of some cr@p indie bands on the NME stage :x
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WTF! I just watched all the highlights that I sky +'d and they didnt show any RATM
Apparently RATM are refusing to have any footage shown on TV. Lost a bit of respect for them due to this.
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In fairness, it's broadly in-line with their stated politics.
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Yeah, why are they doing that? I saw Tom Morello and Serj doing some acoustic song but it was shitee.
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i wondered if they would do that again, same thing at V last week... not entirely sure what it achieves but i wont loose respect for them for making these kind of statements
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i just got a call from some friends at leeds watching rage...... i am glad they thought of me but......UTTER bar-stewardS!!!!
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In fairness, it's broadly in-line with their stated politics.
What? Like supporting a free press?
Their politics are all packaged rebellion for money anyway, so it's fairly irrelevant.
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I couldnt give a cr@p about the politics I just wanted to hear them live :P
Raconteurs sounded good - http://www.bbc.co.uk/readingandleeds/2008/artists/raconteurs/
Probably the only good band on Saturday, The Killers were headlining :facepalm:
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Blackhole - AWESOME.
RATM - AWESOME.
Dizzee - Dissapointing.
Goldfinger - Good fun.
Santogold - Superb.
Flogging Molly - Amazing, of what I remember of it...
Gallows - Incredible.
Holy $%&# - Musically, easily the best band there - Was awe inspiring.
Lethal Bizzle - Fantastic as allways.
Metallica - Pure epic - These guys are back on form imo. They played all the classics.
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Pendulum looked awesome - http://www.bbc.co.uk/readingandleeds/2008/artists/pendulum/
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Pendulum looked awesome - http://www.bbc.co.uk/readingandleeds/2008/artists/pendulum/
I must be getting really old. I had never heard of Pendulum before this weekend - have they been going long? Personally I don't really get what all the fuss was/is about. Maybe I am turning into my parents already.
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Dunno I dont really like drum and bass much but for some reason love Pendulum.
Watching metallica now, I dont really like them much but it looks awesome. Really regret not getting a ticket. I'm gonna have to go next year if the lineup is anything like this years.
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I went to Leeds. I was expecting rain and mud but somehow it stayed mostly dry all weekend. It was muddy on thursday but gradually dried out throughout the weekend. We were gonna stay until the Mondya morning but decided to leave on sunday night as the place turned into a warzone riot. 6ft tall campfires everywhere you look and big bangs from exploding gas canisters every 30 seconds, despite the warnings displayed everywhere including on the main stage screens. I hope noone got hurt and if they did that it was the idiot who threw it in. horrible smelling smoke surrounded the campsites made it difficult to breathe and gave me headaches. When a second big fire was set up about 3m from our tent we decided to get the $%&# out of there. Really dissapointed by the people and was reminded why I prefer Download to Leeds; far less idiots there risking everyone elses safety.
The bands I wanted to see most were Metallica, Rage and QOTSA and they were all fantastic. Really glad I got to see Rage cos I thought I was never gonna get the chance. Tenacious D didnt disappoint either. Pure comedy with great musicianship. Metallica wasnt up to the Download 2006 standard but still awesome. Missed a few classics and I thought the set was short. They played the new song Cyanide which had a very catchy riff and I liked it a lot. Cant wait for their new album which is out next month :D
Killers were boring as hell. Should have gone to see the gallows.
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Metallica wasnt up to the Download 2006 standard but still awesome
Very low standards IMO
Download 06 was also full of riots if you recall. And it all stemmed from 'say no to emo'
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Metallica wasnt up to the Download 2006 standard but still awesome
Very low standards IMO
Download 06 was also full of riots if you recall. And it all stemmed from 'say no to emo'
Really, I thought they were awesome then. I did see them up at the front then and this time I saw them from quite far back so that might have been a contributing factor. plus it was the first time I saw them so my memory might be biased.
Dont remember there being any riots at DL 2006, not around where we where anyway. I did hear the "say no to emo" thing but I didnt see any actual fights. Most of it seemed verbal. But trust me the fire, smoke and the explosions were pretty bad in Leeds. My mate's friend's tent was set on fire whilst she was in it ffs.
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somebody set off a flare right behind my tent at reading a couple of years ago... luckily it didnt catch fire but it was damn close. we were inside at the time, its amazing how bright a flare can be