Just been watching it on tele.
Double you tee eff?
There are high rise flats pretty much next to the site, and a train track too. They showed it from above and its pretty much slap bang in an urban area.
Isn't part of the fun of festivals sposed to be in escaping to the middle of nowhere? It looks horrible. Its like you'd be reminded of the boredom and greyness of living in a dull town every time you get out of your tent.
i don't think so
I went to Lollapalooza this year, and the Chicago skyline in the background looked amazing.
Maybe its because I'm
a bit obsessed with Glastonbury. I expect nothing less.
yeh, i can appreciate that
there are plenty of good things about going to a festival set up like Reading though, most notably the fact that the stages are so close, so you don't have to miss bands just for 'trudging through the mud' time.
chicago skyline > reading skyline though
those train tracks
did make it look like a really dirty scumbag festival site
that's exactly what it is!
you can escape pretty much anywhere
I had great fun at a 'block party' (actually a teeny festival with 3 blocks of a street closed off) in the states, right in the middle of a city.
Or maybe it's just that it wasn't my city. I guess people living nearby might get a bit pissed off though.
is that the portland one?
nope
seattle.
capitol hill block party.
great fun, and all for $15
isn't booze the way we escape?
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touch&go block party was in the car park of the waste disposal service in Chicago. Best festival I've ever been to
^i hate you
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so you should! one day i'll learn to stop showing off about it ;)
Leeds Festival
is in a nice bit of countryside if you want to see the same bands with more trees round you.
Reading > Glastonbury
you can escape back into civilisation its nice
and go to the pub
for a fry up and a shit
I've not been since
96, 97 or 98. One of those years. And those two reasons were why I quite enjoyed Reading. I used to go to somewhere called (something like) "The Monks Retreat".
Either way
The coverage, from what I've seen, shows some pedestrian and lacksidasical bands play for more "best of" album sales.
Fucking hell, I was in a rage when I was watching it. I was channel hopping like a professional, but drawn back into Edith's piss poor presenting of some absolute shit.
I even pressed the red button and saw something even worse.
I'm glad I'm hiding elsewhere in West Yorkshire this weekend as it all look dreadfully dull and painful. It does really look like that when ever any festival gets some "live" media coverage, it goes shit.
Even if I had free tickets to Sunday at Leeds to see LCD Soundsystem and then get helicoptered out to avoid the dismall fucking shuttle bus I would tell you to fuck off and stick it up your arse while you're doing it.
i thought the same
it looked like a right shithole. but with all those GREAT bands playing, it doesn't matter where it's held, right ????
You being ironic?
You can't polish a turd.
The thing about Glastonbury
is you (well I) don't spend any time watching the famed bands through the day. You go and search out some magical exhibition or watch some unknown folk band.
At Leeds, you're stuck with either sitting at an empty campsite or going to watch a bunch of dogshit NME bands, without any of your own beer.
Terrible.
Agreed.
On the plus side
Reading has no hippies and that's the biggest plus side I could think for anything.
At least its close
to the train station. We had to run last year, nearly missed our train last year due to Pearl Jam playing for longer than anticipated. The local trains and buses aren't suited for the amount of people that come to glasto.
that ferry over to
white parking/camping is a pain in the arse though
well
the fact is Reading is not really a festival. It's more like a load of bands in a field, or the equivalent of that with the atmosphere of a day with your mates (and a load of 15 year old knobs) in the park drinking cider.
So in this repect I like how it's near the town. It means you can go to the supermarket and stock up on booze, food and stuff.
I love Glastonbury for it's whole "losing yourself" thing (sorry if that sounds wanky) but Reading serves it's purpose too I guess, being a place to see loads of bands/get pissed.