The Killers Reading Festival 2008
I pulled back, I didn’t fancy being in the middle of a scrum at the front, I ended 15 or so rows before the first barrier and I was eagerly waiting The Killers, although anticipation for the band from Las Vegas, the hype and excitement did not match Rage Against The Machine set.
Less moshing, more singing was in order and despite the sound problems and the crowd chanting “Turn it up” in between the songs, it was a credible performance by The Killers not reaching the same level as the other headliners of Rage and Metallica.
It was Somebody Told Me that prompted the first major sing a long from the crowd but it was a song that was dogged with sound problems and the song therefore lost some bite to it
"We're going to pick it up a notch, we're going to steal some souls, shake some bones, get some meat," Flowers told the crowd and the band launched into 'When You Were Young'
The Killers played Spaceman off the new album before launching into their biggest hit Mr Brightside
They closed with the song that is part of Nike’s new advert which coincides with the Beijing Olympics. It was a great end to the set, and saw a big load of confetti fall onto me (Like it was snowing)
Monday, 17 November 2008
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Reading Festival 2008 Saturday
Reading Festival 2008 Saturday
I was slowly running out of booze but I woke up in a tired state of mind (After experiencing a historic Rage Against The Machine set), the bands on today had a difficult job of trying to live up to the bands that performed on Friday.
I was annoyed that the fucking “Security” took my bottle of water yesterday, which meant I had to purchase a tiny bottle in the arena for 2 quid (Which absolutely disgraceful in my opinion), but they didn’t check this time and I was let in with my bottle.
They shouldn’t confiscate bottles of water anyway, it’s a matter of safety surely that people don’t dehydrate whilst watching a band. It is absolutely ludicrous that they force you to buy a bottle within the arena.
The first band I briefly saw was British Sea Power in all honesty I didn’t really like them or get there music, although they went down well with the crowd.
I was eagerly awaiting The Subways on the main stage, for the 2nd time I saw them this Summer. It was such a slow start to Saturday, and I was still knackered from the night before. A high energy performance from The Subways is what I needed to kick me into life.
A firm favourite at Reading, this was there 5th performance, and I was desperate to see them at last years Reading Festival, they kicked their set with Oh Yeah and that sparked the crowd into life. Don’t get me wrong a lively crowd is brilliant, but I was surrounded by the types of people that read the NME magazine, but that’s the trouble when you like a band that is held in such high regard by the NME magazine.
I swear some bastard tried to pick pocket my phone out of my pocket, but fortunately they didn’t get particularly far.
I don’t believe there Reading performance wasn’t as good as the one at Glastonbury, but perhaps that was because the crowd was expected an incredible performance, whereas at Glastonbury, it was almost unexpected. The Subways had been given a really early slot after Kate Nash and just completely blew everyone away.
The Reading Festival performance by them was very good, but not at the same level as they were at Glastonbury.
It was awesome to let go and jump around and you can certainly do that whilst watching The Subways.
I stayed to watch Dirty Pretty Things; We Are Scientists and Editors, before I headed near the front to watch The Raconteurs rock hard on the main stage.
I saw them at Glastonbury, and I don’t think again they were as good as there Glastonbury performance but one of my favourite modern rock acts, performed well and I thoroughly enjoyed their performance.
Last year, at Reading Festival on the Sunday, I saw Bloc Party perform a flawless set when the Sun was going down the Sunday of Reading 2007 Festival and I made a promise this year that I would actually listen to some of Bloc Party’s music before this year’s festival.
Trouble was it was the return of the NME crowd, and I was involved with must have been some of the worst pushing (No not moshing there is a difference!) at the front. I know this is going to make me sound like a grumpy tosser, and I know how its free for all in terms of trying to get a decent vantage point to view the band at Reading, however, I don’t appreciate twats coming in groups of like 50 – 60 people chains barging there way to the front, literally 5 minutes before bloc party come on.
“Your tall, I’m going in front of you” – says a girl to me, look I may be tall but that’s beside the point… Don’t whine about having a shit position behind my head when you only bothered trying to get a decent spot all of about 5 minutes ago.
It was the first performance by Bloc Party since the release of their 3rd album, and expectations were high to live up to their Reading Festival 2007 performance. They kicked off with Mercury off the new album, and it was truly horrific. It was definitely one of them “What the fuck?!” type of moments. It was ambitious to say the least to pull of this song live and they should have laid of looping his voice over and over… definitely did get off to a good start.
Hunting For Witches was a much better effort as I tried to stay on my feet (Whilst chaos and severe pushing occurred all around me) during this song
I was gutted, I survived Rage Against The Machine and yet I went down twice to a bunch of NME Bloc Party fans. I am ashamed.
Just before they played Like Eating Glass we were asked to hold our hands in the air and tingle are fingers around, and with everyone around me participating at holding their hands up, and with it just starting to lightly rain, it was one of them moments to loose yourself in.
They unleashed the lasers, and these rays of green laser beamed off the stage in what was an imposing sight.
Helicopter was a great end to set which didn’t live up to my expectations.
I was slowly running out of booze but I woke up in a tired state of mind (After experiencing a historic Rage Against The Machine set), the bands on today had a difficult job of trying to live up to the bands that performed on Friday.
I was annoyed that the fucking “Security” took my bottle of water yesterday, which meant I had to purchase a tiny bottle in the arena for 2 quid (Which absolutely disgraceful in my opinion), but they didn’t check this time and I was let in with my bottle.
They shouldn’t confiscate bottles of water anyway, it’s a matter of safety surely that people don’t dehydrate whilst watching a band. It is absolutely ludicrous that they force you to buy a bottle within the arena.
The first band I briefly saw was British Sea Power in all honesty I didn’t really like them or get there music, although they went down well with the crowd.
I was eagerly awaiting The Subways on the main stage, for the 2nd time I saw them this Summer. It was such a slow start to Saturday, and I was still knackered from the night before. A high energy performance from The Subways is what I needed to kick me into life.
A firm favourite at Reading, this was there 5th performance, and I was desperate to see them at last years Reading Festival, they kicked their set with Oh Yeah and that sparked the crowd into life. Don’t get me wrong a lively crowd is brilliant, but I was surrounded by the types of people that read the NME magazine, but that’s the trouble when you like a band that is held in such high regard by the NME magazine.
I swear some bastard tried to pick pocket my phone out of my pocket, but fortunately they didn’t get particularly far.
I don’t believe there Reading performance wasn’t as good as the one at Glastonbury, but perhaps that was because the crowd was expected an incredible performance, whereas at Glastonbury, it was almost unexpected. The Subways had been given a really early slot after Kate Nash and just completely blew everyone away.
The Reading Festival performance by them was very good, but not at the same level as they were at Glastonbury.
It was awesome to let go and jump around and you can certainly do that whilst watching The Subways.
I stayed to watch Dirty Pretty Things; We Are Scientists and Editors, before I headed near the front to watch The Raconteurs rock hard on the main stage.
I saw them at Glastonbury, and I don’t think again they were as good as there Glastonbury performance but one of my favourite modern rock acts, performed well and I thoroughly enjoyed their performance.
Last year, at Reading Festival on the Sunday, I saw Bloc Party perform a flawless set when the Sun was going down the Sunday of Reading 2007 Festival and I made a promise this year that I would actually listen to some of Bloc Party’s music before this year’s festival.
Trouble was it was the return of the NME crowd, and I was involved with must have been some of the worst pushing (No not moshing there is a difference!) at the front. I know this is going to make me sound like a grumpy tosser, and I know how its free for all in terms of trying to get a decent vantage point to view the band at Reading, however, I don’t appreciate twats coming in groups of like 50 – 60 people chains barging there way to the front, literally 5 minutes before bloc party come on.
“Your tall, I’m going in front of you” – says a girl to me, look I may be tall but that’s beside the point… Don’t whine about having a shit position behind my head when you only bothered trying to get a decent spot all of about 5 minutes ago.
It was the first performance by Bloc Party since the release of their 3rd album, and expectations were high to live up to their Reading Festival 2007 performance. They kicked off with Mercury off the new album, and it was truly horrific. It was definitely one of them “What the fuck?!” type of moments. It was ambitious to say the least to pull of this song live and they should have laid of looping his voice over and over… definitely did get off to a good start.
Hunting For Witches was a much better effort as I tried to stay on my feet (Whilst chaos and severe pushing occurred all around me) during this song
I was gutted, I survived Rage Against The Machine and yet I went down twice to a bunch of NME Bloc Party fans. I am ashamed.
Just before they played Like Eating Glass we were asked to hold our hands in the air and tingle are fingers around, and with everyone around me participating at holding their hands up, and with it just starting to lightly rain, it was one of them moments to loose yourself in.
They unleashed the lasers, and these rays of green laser beamed off the stage in what was an imposing sight.
Helicopter was a great end to set which didn’t live up to my expectations.
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