- Linkin Park
- My son Jake being filmed by the Linkin Park crew
- Less Than Jake
- Managing to get into the Radio 1 tent for Hundred Reasons, who rocked!
- The Used
- Blink 182
- Jake (my 10 yr old) drinking half a lager in 3 minutes flat and drunkenly dancing to Blink 182
- Burt McCracken getting the crowd to play cowboys and Indians!! Fucking hilarious!
- Good Charlotte telling the crowd 'you're way better than Leeds. At least you lot can reach the stage...' in response to all the bottles being thrown at the them.
- Tom Delonge from Blink telling the crowd that he'd like to fuck his mother up the ass.....but to not let her he'd said it!!
- That biker dude screaming at my son 'Chamone Muthafucka'!!
- Being told we were cool parents for taking our kids to a festival
- The crazy fuckers in the clothes stall in green campsite who decided to sell everything for £1 on Sunday evening!! Got a nice hat...:)
Bad:
- Staind having to play an all acoustic set after an equipment fuck up
- The toilets come Sunday
- The guys all pissing around the mens toilet barriers...on the outside!! EWWWWWWWWWK!
- The price of water and the queues for water
- Being approached by drunken crazy fuckers wanting our wristbands when we left after Sum 41
- Being told we couldn't park our car in the day carpark because Metallica needed it for 33 coaches....and then going back later to find that they didn't park them there after all!!
Just back. Had the first layer of cack jet-washed off me. More of the same later.
Some initial thoughts on the good and bad question:
GOOD
Lager
Young Heart Attack (best band of the festival)
The Darkness
Chinese restaurant in Caversham
Cocktails on Sunday
McLusky
Winnebago Deal
The Datsuns
Cognac
Evan Dando
Billy Bragg
BAD
Too few toilets in campsites
Staind (the worst band I have EVER seen)
Not meeting any of you regular posters (hence no free lagers for me)
Right, I'll leave it at that for the moment. Hope everyone had a great festival!
Good - Metallica
OK GO
Blink 182 calling us 'fuckers'
Staind's guitars not working
Electric 6 cunningly waiting till the end of the set to play Gay Bar
Beck makin saturday just about worth getting up for
Damon Albarn falling off the stage
Bad - Dust that i am still coughin up
Linkin Park going thru the motions ('you're beautiful Reading e.t.c.)
Not being able to find Fat Reg despite the best attempts of me a 8 men on sunday nite chanting 'Fat Reg' whilst banging on a big petrol drum
The twat in my field who was a human cockeral all weekend. Wanker
GOOD
Metallica
Young Heart Attack
The Black Keys (Absolutely Fantastic)
Electric Six covering 'Radio Ga-Ga' (if like most, you left after 'Gay Bar', you'd have missed it)
Turbonegro
Beck
The band t-shirt stand in the market
BAD
Blur (Drab and Awful without Coxon)
Jackson (Chris Shiflett isn't a good frontman, and his amp kept failing)
My Fucking Knees!
good
metallica
the amount of pyrotechnics used by mettallica
blink 182 (despite not playing the dog fucker song, bastards)
linkin park
S.O.A.D
less than jake and the circle pits they caused
AFI
getting shitfaced, watching mark tomas, passing out then being sick on the person looking after me and missing sum 41
the rolled up section of road being burnt this morning
tents on fire
circle pits
getting kirk drunk and making him buy a bullet belt
destroying simons tent
Bad
the toilets
extortioate prices
being sick
nearly being crushed to death in the finch mosh
missing sum 41
Just after 3am, one of my mates told me that someone had asked for me cos of the flags, i'd gone to bed 5 mins previously as i'd been up since 5am to bag an enormous camping space. Sorry i missed ya!
AFI
Blink 182
actually having a shit
buying a bouncing souls cd for £5
the game of alan in the camsite last nite
seeing hulk hogan again
the pit me and my friends started for afi
terrorising my friends while sleeping
meeting lots of cool people
thursday and sunday night
Bad
getting robbed
missing movielife
missing lagwagon
concrete jungle way too small
the pit were to full of fat bald men throwing punches
meeting this girl and not trying to get with her
stupid tent that was well exspensive and sucked that i destroyed so now my parents are mad at me
I'm quite suprised you hadn;t heard of Young Heart Attack before. I saw their video on 120 minutes a few months back and was blown away. Their performance at Leeds was incredible and I was awesomely happy when I met them during Mull Historical Society.
Primal Scream (comments to the wankers throwing bottles was hillarious, band of the weekend)
Elbow
Blur
Mclusky
The Music (best atmosphere of the festival by a mile - who tent was dancing)
Mars Volta
Interpol
My Morning Jacket
Ravenottes
Stellarstar*
Bad
Squarepusher (stayed for 20 mins and he still hadn't started propperly)
Yeah yeah yeahs - seen them before and they were great but were really lacking something
Primal Scream's place on the bill - far too low down
too many clahses
narrow minded Metallica fans
GOOD:
The Used
The Atari's
AFI
Saves The Day
Rocket Science (it was like being stuck in Austin Powers!)
Poison The Well
Biffy Clyro
The Darkness
Mark Thomas (on the comedy stage)
Dry weather
Many numerous phrases, including "Cosby Sweater" and lines from Tom Green's "bum bum song"
BAD:
Blur
Spending twice as much money as planned thanks to the wonders of the Carling Extra Cold at the bar...
The dust
Getting ketchup randomly thrown at me
Blur
The Streets
Blur
Missing Metallica thanks to alcoholic beverages
Thats all I can think of right now, but it was a goodun :)
The Music (Mind altering who needs drugs when you've got them?)
The "Fuck Metallica" chants during The Music
The Cooper Temple Clause
Young Heart Attack
The Datsuns
Biffy Clyro (Nice to see them on the main stage)
Funeral For A Friend
Thrice
Sparta
The Thrills
Doves
S.O.A.D (Not a huge fan but very entertaining)
Hell Is For Heroes
The Darkness
Cave In
Instruction (They are gonna be huge)
Me and my mate goin on the Biffy Clyro march on sat night, any1 hear us shoutin "mon the biffy"?
Bad
Blur (HUGE Disappointment)
Finch (Think it was the sound tho)
Blink 182
GOOD:
Metallica
SOAD
Pyrotechnics-aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggg!
Friday-stayin in the arena for the whole day an seeing
an seein loads of bands!
Gettin drunk an buyin a bullet belt!
Random shouts, and the BOLLOCKS wave!!
Spendin half o friday bein crushed.
This great burger i had, 1/2 pounder. bloody georgeous.
The fire cannon made from the road!!
Tents explodin!!
BAD:
Toilets-the fact that i could smell them before i
could see them.
Staind-my god they sucked!!!
My Cold- it takes the piss.
Fear of my tent explodin.
Thong guys thong- the ball splitter
Sunburn on my nee