Reading Festival

What can I say about that.

It was wet

And muddy.

well, everywhere else was myddy except the campsite we were in. Sparcely populated, there was actualy a decent space between the tents.

Friday.
Watched Jurassic 5, The Distillers, The Hives, Ash, Super Furry Animals, and of course, The Darkness.
I woulda like to see more of the bands that I havent really watched before, but at least The Darkness put on a good show. Loadsa fireworks.

Saturday
Saw The Roots, Franz Ferdinand, The Libertines, MC5, Dizzee Rascal, The White Stripes, and Funeral for a Friend.
All the bands were great, except the White Stripes. As a live act they don't do much for me. We left them on the main stage and watched FFAF on the Radio 1 stage. They woulda been a much better closing act on the main stage.

Sunday.
Well, all the action happened today. We had The Razmus lasting one song. Apparently the basist got hit in the eye with a bottle. That screwed the schedule up. I wanted to catch the Streets, but only caught "Dry your Eyes" and "Fit (but you know it)". Bummed by that.
Besides them, we saw Lost Prophets, Placebo, The Others, Soundtrack of Our Lives, and Green Day. In the end Green Day did a 2 hour set. They were only scheduled for 90 mins, but oh my god did they rock. At one point they tried to get three members of the audience to play drums, guitar, and bass. In the end they had to get one of the drummers from another band, but the guitarist and basist they found. They ended up playing the outro chorus of a song with Billie Joe.

All in all, was a good weekend, and much fun was had with the "Yes, no, maybe, wrong, and Ooh lordy" as a scoring method for the girls there.

Roll on next year.