Floods put dampeners on Reading

by Alex Denney [Edit this content] ▾ 19 comments 14:37 August 21st, 2007

Good news for people who like floods – organisers at the Carling Weekend Reading Festival have been forced to close off car parks and camping areas due to yet more of the interfering wet stuff cacking things up for everyone again.

Festival big cheese – well, maybe not the big cheese, but certainly a nice ripe gorgonzola - Melvyn Benn said that emergency flood plans have been put in place to accommodate not-so-happy campers, who can expect to find some areas "unusable" at the event, which takes place this weekend August 24-6.

Organisers have turned one proposed car park into a campsite campsite, while other pitching areas will have reduced capacity. But don’t panic – help is at hand from the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals homepage, and Benn at least is looking on the bright side.

"It's been a very difficult month," he said. "This summer has been bloody awful.

"But we will be able to stage the world's greatest rock festival despite what climate change and the weather have thrown at us. I always said the festival was more important than the weather!"

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"world's greatest rock festival"

this is like describing the people who design those aseptic show homes in the home counties as being the "world's greatest architects".

brusma | 21 Aug '07, 15:29 | X | Reply

that'll

give all those screamo bands something to whine about

Ultimate_Damage @brusma | 21 Aug '07, 15:54 | X | Reply

yeh...

that's right, blame climate change... fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck...

andrewfartwasher | 21 Aug '07, 15:56 | X | Reply

bad weather won't

make it akin to reading 92 and I'll lamp the first one to make the comparison. why oh why did i get a sunday ticket...?

amyblue @andrewfartwasher | 21 Aug '07, 16:31 | X | Reply

Re:Floods put dampeners on Reading.

good.

moderaterock | 21 Aug '07, 18:32 | X | Reply

I'm used to cynicism on here

But what's the point of that, person above? Just pointless and not nice.

Damian @moderaterock | 21 Aug '07, 19:10 | X | Reply

I went to benicasim instead this year

.. and unless someone air drops me in free of charge i won't be going to reading again

mozzarella_sweaters @Damian | 21 Aug '07, 19:27 | X | Reply

bahaha

glad its all under control

"well, the carparks and campsites are all under water, and we have no real back ups or solutions... BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A ROCKIN GOOD TIME YEAH READING 2007!"

awesome

lazerlife | 21 Aug '07, 20:34 | X | Reply

Yeah,

but Leeds is fine...

Dead_Deer | 22 Aug '07, 01:41 | X | Reply

Yup

when you bust the European Festival scene its really really hard to ever imagine going back to this shit!

HADDOCK @Dead_Deer | 22 Aug '07, 08:45 | X | Reply

The campsites will be full by tomorrow

I work between Reading Station and the festival site and on my way in this morning saw that people are arriving already. Better hurry up!!

H-Stein | 22 Aug '07, 09:14 | X | Reply

las year I saw the most scariest thing EVER

An emo boi straightening his hair...WITH WIRELESS STRAIGHTENERS

marilyninthesky @H-Stein | 22 Aug '07, 12:05 | X | Reply

3 year drout

Haven't been now for three years and I thought every year I would miss it or at least get the urge by saturday afternoon to get on a train but I don't.

After a little over 10 years of ritually hitting the same strip of wasteland I am sad to say I couldn't give a shit about Reading anymore.

I think that when it changed hands it got a lot worse, the burning desire to over populate yet never increase the arena size is foolish.

The introduction of the dance tent in 97 screwed everything, the last two years I went each night someone tried to sleep in my tent whilst I was in it resulting in punch ups. My entire tent content has been stolen without fail by saturday and I feel like there are more 13yr olds than 30, but maybe thats getting older talking.

Things I do miss from Readings gone by:

The Dr Martins unsigned tent, saw some amazing acts in there all those years ago.

The Virgin Tea tent thingy back in 96/97?? somewhere around then, free blackcurrent tea, quality.

Being able to put your tent up behind where you parked your car.

The Ice cream van meeting spot right side of main stage by the light tower without fail every year!

And of course getting the opportunity to see a hundred or so amazing acts in 3 great tents and one shite main stage.

avangelist @marilyninthesky | 23 Aug '07, 10:22 | X | Reply

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