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Reading Festival 97

22nd - 24th August 1997

Reading, Berkshire, England

I actually bought a ticket in advance for this one (wow, forward planning or what, I'm definitely heading for management)

Saw James (too quiet and boring live, although I like their music), Cast (ooohhh, I'm such an Indie kid!), Suede (pretty good as usual), The Cardigans, Lemonheads (pretty good, though not as interesting as the last time I saw Evan Dando at Glastonbury 95 being booed off stage as Portishead should have been playing), Space (their 2 hits were reasonably good, lets hope they write some more good material), Manic Street Preachers (spooky, slightly over-the-top show, but they're still improving with each performance which is a relief if you saw them play about 4 years ago, definitely one of the highlights of the festival), My Life Story, Bennet, David Devant & His Spirit Wife (amazing just for the weird things happening on stage, eg a man painting a television blue!), Terrorvision (not as good as usual mainly because of the boring audience), Marilyn Manson (mmmm, not much I can say about this, you just have to see them to er, appreciate it). Any of the bands above that doesn't have a comment was obviously too boring for me to remember so gets a thumbs down.

The gittish security guards (the Mean Fiddler lives up to its name again) wouldn't let me take the pants flag into the arena (a "safety hazzard" they said). I'm pretty sure they'll ban alcohol next as its bad for your health. So I had to be content with a jaunt around the campsite instead.

Dylan

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