Reading Festival

a.palmer

Anyone heading down tomorrow/thursday?

MattC59

Nope, having lived in Reading for 8 years (moved down the road now) I can honestly say that the best thing to do over festival weekend is to leave the town.

If you're at the festival it's a great weekend, but if you're just in Reading it's murder !!

It would appear that I suffer from 'Seasonal Tourets'. I end up spending the weekend swearing at the hoards of unwashed gribblies, spilling across the streets and trying their best to throw themselves under the nearest passing car. (Seriously, it is like this !!)

Anyway, I'll be on a beach in Protugal enjoying the 31C sunshine

Have fun though, the line up looks pretty damn good to me, some good stuff on the smaller stages too !!!

fast as fupp

very terrible!

pdstsp

No but just packed eldest offspring off to Leeds festival with 4 pot noodles, 6 nutrigrains, a bag of pasta and six bottles of rose - oh to be that age again!!

shockedsoshocked

Wouldn't mind seeing LCD Soundsystem and British Sea Power, but that's about it.

dag_on_a_bike

MattC59 wrote:

Nope, having lived in Reading for 8 years (moved down the road now) I can honestly say that the best thing to do over festival weekend is to leave the town.

If you're at the festival it's a great weekend, but if you're just in Reading it's murder !!...

Absolutely!

Used to live at Caversham and work in centre of Reading just by the railway station.

Nightmare, You could hardly move.

Cheshire_Cat

Anybody going should try and catch Atari Teenage Riot

iainf72

Cheshire_Cat wrote:

Anybody going should try and catch Atari Teenage Riot

I <heart> ATR. Saw them in 99 with Carl Crack (RIP) stumbling around the stage screeching into a mic while Alec Empire tortured a synth.

Good times

andy162

QOTSA are worth a watch. Especially if Josh Homme is in a foul mood..or ill(there's a YouTube clip of some spotty oik lobbing a bottle at him, he doesn't take it well)

Two bands on Saturday that have/had Johnny"he plays guitar" Marr in their ranks too. Never got to grips with Modest Mouse.

softlad

DAG on a bike wrote:

MattC59 wrote:

Nope, having lived in Reading for 8 years (moved down the road now) I can honestly say that the best thing to do over festival weekend is to leave the town.

If you're at the festival it's a great weekend, but if you're just in Reading it's murder !!...

Absolutely!

Used to live at Caversham and work in centre of Reading just by the railway station.

Nightmare, You could hardly move.

ditto - the streets are usually blocked by wierdos with silly haircuts pushing shopping trolleys full of beer..

stuaff

iainf72 wrote:

Cheshire_Cat wrote:

Anybody going should try and catch Atari Teenage Riot

I <heart> ATR. Saw them in 99 with Carl Crack (RIP) stumbling around the stage screeching into a mic while Alec Empire tortured a synth.

Good times

+1. Missed the start of the set in '99 but what I did catch was awesome, if not quite the frenetic atmosphere of the show on the South Bank a few months before. The Electric Ballroom comeback show was better still......

rick_chasey

Good weather for it...