Reading

Lets be honest im a lucky sod. Not many people can say their birthday party has a ~100,000 or so people attend it, Along with Pearl jam headlining.

Ok its not specifically my birthday party but it falls close enough to the reading festival to make it a good excuse. this year we had the standard shinanagans and far too much nasty larger (so many years will i ever learn).

I got to see Gogol Bordello, Reel Big Fish, Less than Jake, Flogging Molly, Placebo, Pearl Jam, Feeder, Keiser Cheifs,Bodycount.

All in all it was a damm good weekend.
Gogol Bordello were my suprise act of the weekend being a mental Gipsy rock sort of thing. They truly kicked ass. Body Count were also a pleasent surprise, to be fair i had forgot about Ice T's early 90's Rock/ Rap band but they provided the best drum solo of the weekend.

Reel Big fish and less than jake were sweaty, skanky goodness with the less than jake circle pits providing as much painfull mayhem as usuall. Unfortunatly a new barrier halfway into the main stage sort of stopped the massive circle pit of death that LTJ had last year from forming :( Though i suppose its a good thing as im getting a little old for that sort of crazyness. There were a load of young fans in the audience for both these bands which goes to show Ska Punk isnt dead. Unfotunatly some of the kids there acted a little shocked when they discoved i had been Gigging to the fish since they were in primary school.

On a surprising sub note. It appears that my lifestyle of Beer and Smokes cant be too bad for me. I am now the proud owner of a reasting heart rate around 50 BPM. Which is getting to top athlete level.