Leeds Festival

[Henrik's fan club]

I'm working the Reading festival. If anyone is going and finds themselves outside the radio VIP area, pop over and say hello, I'll be the only on there, dressed in black trousers and black polo shirt with earpiece trying to look like Kevin Costner!

so they're giving you stilts and plastic surgery too??

ooooh Commie's getting his claws out.....

[Soldier_Of_The_White_Army]

I'm working the Reading festival. If anyone is going and finds themselves outside the radio VIP area, pop over and say hello, I'll be the only on there, dressed in black trousers and black polo shirt with earpiece trying to look like Kevin Costner!

so they're giving you stilts and plastic surgery too??

ooooh Commie's getting his claws out.....

Actually he's slacking! He missed the 'Just for men' opportunity altogether.

[Harry Genshaw]

Well after reading through this thread I've just remembered why I dont go to festivals. Leaking toilets, expensive food n beer, flooded tents, battling chavs FFS its sounds horrendous!

[Henrik's fan club]

Well after reading through this thread I've just remembered why I dont go to festivals. Leaking toilets, expensive food n beer, flooded tents, battling chavs FFS its sounds horrendous!

But you forget the good parts...getting smashed with your mates, pissing about and watching some fantastic bands!

[officer_dibble]

im off to leeds as well being a local now, just going on the sunday though when the bogs will be at the worst, and people will be nearing the end of weekend long benders...am glad i dont have to camp with the likes of you lot!!!!! sounds horific

[burnden58]

Thanks everyone for the advice. Bought the face wipes and poured his Jack Daniels into plastic bottles. They will try to chat some girls up for some warm food or buy from tescoor on site.

So am I right you can take your own beer into the site?

[Dr Hotdog]

you can take your own beer, it is an extra burden.
you can purchase 24 cans of cold Carling for £20 - good if there is 4 of you putting to.

from past experience i'd honestly recommend taking a box of red wine though, stains your teeth like a bugger, but if you've packed your dental applications you'll be reet.

i usually take me own food, couple of loafs, and some tinned feasts or packeted pasta stuff.

[Gnome]

i was at Reading
camped in the furthest campsite, a bit irritating when we wanted to go back and had to queue for a boat to get there, but made more sense when there were only 2 of us lugging 4people's stuff up when we got there.

Toilets were well rough, even on the first day.
we couldnt take our own booze into performance areas, couldnt even smuggle it, had the guards sniffing inside my bottles one day! we had one torch for our tent lol, and not a lot of food, but we had a great time, and our tent proved to be waterproof (had never used it in rain before, and it had some downpours to cope with!)

[Henrik's fan club]

i was at Reading
camped in the furthest campsite, a bit irritating when we wanted to go back and had to queue for a boat to get there, but made more sense when there were only 2 of us lugging 4people's stuff up when we got there.

Toilets were well rough, even on the first day.
we couldnt take our own booze into performance areas, couldnt even smuggle it, had the guards sniffing inside my bottles one day! we had one torch for our tent lol, and not a lot of food, but we had a great time, and our tent proved to be waterproof (had never used it in rain before, and it had some downpours to cope with!)

Leeds was fantastic but weren't arctic Monkeys bloody awful!!! Worst live band I've ever seen....I was bored to tears. Thank God for Muse and Dirty Pretty Things to show them how it's done!

[Gnome]

Leeds was fantastic but weren't arctic Monkeys bloody awful!!! Worst live band I've ever seen....I was bored to tears. Thank God for Muse and Dirty Pretty Things to show them how it's done!

godammit yes, they were rubbish. i was so disappointed cos i was really looking forward to them and they just stood there and sang the songs just like they are on the CD, hardly said a thing and didnt get the crowd involved at all. really enjoyed a couple of songs but overall they were crap, and i didnt enjoy Muse as much after that cos i had sat through them and The Streets who i absolutely cant stand and i was fed up!
Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and Feeder were my faves, Boy Kill Boy, Fallout Boy and Panic at the Disco were really good too i thought, was a bit disappointed with the Kooks

trying to get my wristband off without cutting it, and its really not happening so it'll be chopped before i go to work tomorrow i think

[Henrik's fan club]

Leeds was fantastic but weren't arctic Monkeys bloody awful!!! Worst live band I've ever seen....I was bored to tears. Thank God for Muse and Dirty Pretty Things to show them how it's done!

godammit yes, they were rubbish. i was so disappointed cos i was really looking forward to them and they just stood there and sang the songs just like they are on the CD, hardly said a thing and didnt get the crowd involved at all. really enjoyed a couple of songs but overall they were crap, and i didnt enjoy Muse as much after that cos i had sat through them and The Streets who i absolutely cant stand and i was fed up!
Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and Feeder were my faves, Boy Kill Boy, Fallout Boy and Panic at the Disco were really good too i thought, was a bit disappointed with the Kooks

trying to get my wristband off without cutting it, and its really not happening so it'll be chopped before i go to work tomorrow i think

Keeping both my V festival and Leeds ones on until they fall off...no work to make me remove 'em and as a student they're almost like medals or badges of insignia

[ratbert]

The Leeds festival actually took place? Listening to the radio you'd think only Reading was taking place

[Bwfc in the bloodline]

The Leeds festival actually took place? Listening to the radio you'd think only Reading was taking place

I got that feeling when i went to the V-festival, who would've known there was one on in Stafford aswel.

[Henrik's fan club]

We northerners always get neglected...pity really since it's generally agreed that Leeds is the better festival

[keveh]

Leeds is better just because it has a hill, Reading is just flat.

If you're at the back of the crowd you have no chance of seeing anything.

[Dr Hotdog]

correct, even the old Leeds venue @ Temple Newsam had a dip so you could see the main stage from anywhere.

this weekened just past has been the first Leeds fest i've not been to since 2000.

[hisroyalgingerness]

did anyone watch coverage on bbc2/3?

that tool from nme, greasy long haired journalist tit on him from panic at the disco who got hit by a bottle "errr yeah, we can't condone it... but wasn't it a good shot!"

utter knobhead

[Henrik's fan club]

did anyone watch coverage on bbc2/3?

that tool from nme, greasy long haired journalist tit on him from panic at the disco who got hit by a bottle "errr yeah, we can't condone it... but wasn't it a good shot!"

utter knobhead

well it WAS a good shot....I was quite pleased that my bottle at Fallout Boy hit the drumkit

[Gnome]

We northerners always get neglected...pity really since it's generally agreed that Leeds is the better festival

was talking to a guy from Derby or somewhere like that who had done both and said Reading was better cos the people in Leeds were always trying to start fights!

[Henrik's fan club]

We northerners always get neglected...pity really since it's generally agreed that Leeds is the better festival

was talking to a guy from Derby or somewhere like that who had done both and said Reading was better cos the people in Leeds were always trying to start fights!

Ah...we get told we're more friendly generally and the site is much nicer. Also we get the fun of rioting on the sunday nights!