After battling for 3 hours with severe tent hair problems and a hangover we eventually manage to drag ourselves into the arena in time for Easyworld. We watched them being their own roadies before they appeared dressed in suits ready for their performance. Even though they were the first band of the day, the Evening Session Stage was packed out. NME seem to think that was because of the weather but we know it was because of Dav and his unique Banjo playing skills and bizarre hand waving movements! However good they were we cannot forgive the fact that they failed to notice us blowing bubbles all the way through ‘Junkies and Whores’. We stayed around for a bit after Easyworld had finished to watch Crackout. Although we didn’t know any of their songs, we were quite impressed although it was nothing we hadn’t heard before.
Ok, whose idea was it to move The Stokes to the main stage without telling us? Alright, maybe if we had been in the right stage when it had been announced we might have been ok, but we weren’t. You see, when you’re hungover and not completely with it, the Dance Tent can look very much like the Evening Session Stage, (well to us it can). You would think that the big decks and the fact that there were about 10 people in the tent would give it away – but no!! We sat in there for ½ an hour waiting for The Strokes before we realised we were actually in the wrong tent! So, we missed them!? Completely distraught we made our way into the right tent this time to watch King Adora, but they were late (either that or we were early, but I doubt that!!) so we had to suffer Cosmic Rough Riders and they were probably the worst band we have ever seen (with exception to the Flaming Lips a few years ago!). When King Adora did eventually show their faces we suddenly had this feeling that we were actually at Top Of The Pops and not at The Reading Festival because all of the girls just started to scream!!! It felt like A1 had just come onstage and not King Adora! Maxi kept trying to get the crowd going and said he couldn’t hear anyone, maybe this was because they’re used to playing in venues which hold no more than 200, not in a big 8,000 capacity tent! But as usual they were smouldering!
We tried to make it out of our tent for PJ Harvey but we just couldn’t bear to leave out bottle of £2.99 wine unfinished, so we missed her! When we did finally manage to tear ourselves away, we staggered (literally!) to the front of the main stage and await the appearance of the once extremely fit Billy Joe. Unfortunately nowadays he’s eaten one too many pies! Green day may not be the prettiest band around but they were still one of the best bands of the weekend. They’re entertaining and make good music, what more could u want? (except maybe for Billy Joe to look like he did a few years ago!).
Next up was what we had been waiting for all day, Ash,
and they unbelievably good!! The only problem was the tent they were in. The Evening Session stage was too small for them, too many people wanted to see them and there wasn’t the space in the tent. As we were right at the front having 8,000+ people squashing you against the railings isn’t nice, especially when its too hot and your wearing a shirt and tie – probably not the best choice of clothes, but that didn’t stop us from rocking our socks off!! They even played our favourite song at the end, ‘Jack Names The Planets’, its as if Tim knew!!!
Rocking or Shocking?
Rocking.
5/5
Friday Night Exploded!
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