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Is anyone else going to Reading (Saturday only)...
for the sole purpose of seeing At The Drive-In?
Sure, there's The Shins, Mastodon and some other good stuff too, but ATD-I are the only thing that convinced me to buy a ticket.
I remember feeling ancient there when I went for the last time in 2004, I was 24 then and I'm 32 now.
I was considering it
but the videos from Coachella didn't really convince me that I'd be missing much, seemed really lacklustre and made me wonder if I should just stick to the memories of seeing them first time round.
Not been since 2004 either.
On the strenght of Coachella I'd say don't bother
Thank god Refused were there that weekend to help dislodge ATDI somewhat from my memory.
I thought the Coachella performance was actually pretty decent.
Yeah, ok Omar's not going aff his tits anymore but it sounded pretty great.
Cedric still seems up for it as well.
I went to Reading last in 2009.
I was 22, and felt far too old. Demographic seems to hover around 16/17/18.
That said, first time I went I *was* 16 and had the time of my life... so not knocking it.
I'm 39, and going this year
...and have been most years since I can remember. The largest single demographic there is young kids - as it should be - but oddly I felt old when I went in my 20s but not my 30s. I think a lot of people who made me feel old then are still going - so you've got people in their mid-30s too. And I'm far from the oldest person there. If you like enough bands on the bill, age is no reason not to go.
That said, it's a fair few years since I camped at it. Not so much because of age but because of stuff that has happened - kids falling onto my tent fighting, people peeing up the side, having my clothes strewn across a muddy path by people discovering that there was nothing worth nicking in my tent...
I'm 40 and going.
Only going because i get freebies tickets though. I tend to hide in the new bands tents while the kids go watch rubbish on the main stage.
yeah it's the camping that I'm referring to really
that's where it's really intolerable.
I've been alright with camping
asides from the usual wankers making noise at silly o'clock, worst I've had was a crate nicked. which was infuriating at the time actually
I felt old camping when I was about 21
I don't think I'd go through the effort of going for a day (queuing to get in, having to get home at night) unless I lived round the corner or could get a lift home.
I'm thinking of going Leeds
on a side note, how far down are The Hives?!
yeah really bizarre billing
reminds me of when Yeah Yeah Yeahs were 5th from top on the Other Stage @ Glasto in 2009 and drew a crowd that reaffirmed that they should have really been second-headlining or thereabouts
that tent is gonna be RAMMED
people still care about The Hives?
it's not 2002...
i know they're not exactly big hitters now
but they were still quite a big deal about 4 or 5 years ago, certainly enough to see them maybe open the main stage or whatever, and definitely not to be 5th/6th down on the NME stage. You're talking about a festival where one of the stage headliners are Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, whose name I haven't heard mentioned for at least 7 years
Seriously tempted for ATD-I too
but probably won't. I've never actually been to a festival and seems a bit scary. Plus don't really know anyone who would go. :(
I hope ATD-I announce a London show.