Friday, August 31, 2007

Reading

Another year passes as i march steadily towards middle age, and again I went to the Reading (Rock ?) Festival. Aside from a couple of gripes it was another reasonable year. Lets get the good points out of the way first.

1) Drinking. Another classic year for that, My liver takes its normal battering and held up reasonably well.

2) Company. Aside from the Kids on the last night (see below) it was a good year for company, Standard issue crew went My Bruv, Harry,Kev, James, Mat, Ben and we met up with some of kids Harry found on the Internet who on the whole wernt bad.

3) Bands, When they were good they were good. Got to see a reasonable line up, with the new favourite being enter shikari.Some old school goodness with Mad Caddies, Ash and the Living End.

Now the bad points.

1) Organisation. Someone should be shot. Unfortunately due to a bit of rain some of the camping was unusable so the normal car park was moved somewhere just south of oxford (As i cant shoot god for organising the rain, it will have to be the festival organisers for the carpark). This meant a 3 hour wait to get into the place as we were taken across the Thames by "More ships than the
Royal Navy" (quote from Festival website). This meant 3 little ferry's that chugged across the 20 meters of water. One word chaps. "BRIDGE". Easy to knock up and they do it for loads of other events.

2) The Kids. too many kids and the line up was designed for kids too. What happened to the Reading ROCK festival. It may as well be called the Reading EMO - Hippidy Hop - Power Pop Festival. Then there's the fact that they are all talking about GCSE results. Instead of 'real' subjects. Secondly i have managed to last a fair few years of these without any prick trying to set fire to the tent. This year some idiot put a deodorant can on the fire and damn near blew me up. Worst still was the fact it was my can that was blown up.

3) Me getting Old. If it wasn't bad enough that most of the population of the festival appears to be 10 years younger than me now, I was really feeling it this year. Me and the Bruv went for a skank and only could manages a couple of songs, Next year i am taking a knee brace.

Anyway that's a good enough rant on that subject for now.
Overall I got to see some good bands, some bad bands, had a laugh and a drink with some old friends. Cant wait till next year

1 comment:

conroy bumpas said...

yeah i was in the tent at the time.

i herd it go on the fire and people shout run,

hummm tents not shrapnell proof

hummm air beds not shrapnall proof

humm donna maybe shrapnall proof

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