Sunday has recently become known as Readings Rock Day, and we thought that as everyone would be all Gothed-up it was our duty to add a bit of colour and wear as much pink as humanly possible. However, as it was raining and our zip-up tops were black that didn’t quite go to plan!
Hundred Reasons were our first band of the day and armed with bottles to throw at Colin and co we made our way to the Evening Session stage. Unfortunately, the times had been changed and we'd missed them. We think that Colin may have heard about our sabotage plan and decided it was in the bands best interests (and his safety!) to play before we were up! So instead we stayed around and watched a bit of Seafood which wasn't bad.
After having a 6 hour long smoking session while huddled in a sleeping bag, we emerged from our tent ready to face the rain, Queens Of The Stone Age and a naked Nick Oliveri!. They were really good but we were too tired and smelly to really get into it. As soon as Papa Roach appeared onstage there seemed to be a sudden influx of little children (some in pushchairs!!!), running into the mosh-pit amongst 50 year old hairy (and smellier than us!) rockers. This may have been less worrying if Coby Dick hadn't have been getting the crowd to shout "Kill, Kill, Murder, Murder" repeatedly for 5 minutes or have been talking about how good it is to "pop a pill". But they managed to keep us entertained while crunching our way through a hard and undercooked Jacket Potato - don’t you just love festival food!
Next up was the king of freaks himself, Marilyn Manson. However much of a lovely bloke he is in real life he did still scare us quite a lot when he appeared on stage half way through the set in a 6-foot high pair of stilts! But he was very entertaining and we even knew enough songs to have a little sing-a-long!!!
Eminem and D12? hmmmm! half the crowd loved them, half the crowd hated them, we were in the second half. Eminem didn’t even have his chainsaw or Dido to make the performance a tiny bit interesting or bearable. It all just sounded like (and was) a load of hip-hop crap to us so we went to watch the last few minutes of Hefner instead and ended up wishing we had watched more of them. Maybe it would have been a better idea, and have made a better last night, to of had Marilyn Manson headling a rock day instead of Eminem.
Rocking or Shocking?
Rocking.
3/5
Sunday was not a sunny day!
Go to another day of the festival... ...
Friday
......
Saturday
......
Sunday
