The advantage of Reading is that no matter where you're camped, you can still hear the band on the main stage without having to emerge from your sleeping bag. Thankfully. This meant we could be lazy, sleep all morning, and yet still have a good old laugh over Raging Speedhorn . As some old person no doubt once said – THAT’S NOT MUSIC!! It makes us feel ashamed to be from the same area as them, expecially as they trashed Idlewild’s table at the Kerrang Awards and then tried to set fire to it. Poor little Roddy.
Amen, and Hundred Reasons followed. Amen didn’t sound too bad, but we still refuse to like Hundred Reasons, however good they might be getting. Must control the urges to but their CD. Next up was NOFX . They were brilliant and added a bit of much needed Punk to the morning. Infact they were so good, they made us wish we had been bothered to leave our comfy sleeping bags and go and see them.
On our travels around the campsite, we bumped into a photographer from the Sun and tried to get him to take our photo (not for page 3 we hasten to add!) but he wouldn’t. God dammit.
It had finally arrived. Duncan Day, (that’s Duncan Baxter from The Shining for those of you who wonder who we are harping on about all the time!). It was just our luck we would have to face him on Sunday when our hair was completely beyond help. Not even Nicky Clark could have saved us today. So we decided that some kind of disguise was called for. We opted for the famous Britney Spears school girl look, (altough possibly not the best look considering our forthcoming date with a sexy rockstar. Ok so it wasn’t technically a date, but lets not be fussy about it. Don’t steal the little ray of light we have left!!), So after putting our hair up in bunches, drawing some freckles on our cheeks in black eyeliner and putting on a lovely creased, smelly and dirty shirt and tie, (just to ensure we really did look as bad as was humanly possible), we made our way off into the arena.
We were intending on watching Deathcab For Cutie , Hoggboy, (which is probably the worst band name ever), and Capdown , before rolling up for The Shining, but we were on another liquid breakfast, so forgot!
Thankfully, even though it was 3pm, we managed to get right to the front of the Evening Session stage to await the appearance of Duncan. Yummy yummy little Duncan. Now we don’t wish to exaggerate, it would be difficult to, but Duncan IS infact the sexiest man that has ever walked and shared the planet with us humble beings, and has the kind of looks to die for, and he noticed us!!!!! He made our weekend complete. He recognised us from when we engaged in communal guitar playing with him in their tour bus. Although we are yet to come to a conclusion over whether this was a good thing or not. We were looking so bad; it’s a bit of an insult that we were recognisable!! Anyway, The Shining, with all their northern swagger that we have now become a bit partial to, were fantastic. Duncan was doing a really sexy dance, we were beside ourselves, and couldn’t stop grinning and marveling at his wonderfulness. The songs were pretty good too! Unfortunately, we happened to be standing next the most annoying man alive, who was shouting abuse at them after every song. Felt like smacking him one so as not to cause any unnecessary upset to Duncan, but we managed to control ourselves.
Hell Is For Heros were up next, and we totally forgot that two of the members used to be in Symposium, otherwise we would have stayed around for a bit to see them, rather than going back to our tent. We might not have missed Biffy Clyro then.
Easyworld were the most anticipated band of the day, and they didn’t disappoint. However much we may love Easyworld, and however much we were looking forward to seeing them, we didn’t really expect them to be all that good, but they certainly proved us wrong. They rocked our socks off. Easyworld are the kinda band who treat every gig differently and show real respect the fans. They had a big archway made out of balloons to frame the stage and were even giving out loadsa Easyworld freebies beforehand. They are now officially the nicest band ever. Even though they didn't play Hundredweight, we had to forgive them because their new songs were sooooo good. Go buy their new album NOW!!
We missed the end of Slipknot , but hear they were being their usual charming selves and throwing all kind of shit (literally!) into the crowd. Slipknot were followed by a big bottle throwing extravaganza and then The Offspring . The Offspring are the kinda band you could go and see a million times and never get bored of, you always seem to know all their songs even if you’ve never heard them before, (insert some joke about all their songs sounding the same and you'll be sorry!!!), and despite Dexter Holland being about 60 years old now, he still looks half way fanciable. Even though we were standing behind two 8foot tall and 4foot wide men, and couldn’t see a thing, they were absolutely fabulous (sweetie darling!!) and were one of the best bands of the weekend.
Missed the The Prodigy . But we hear they were pretty darn good! Although after Slipknot, we doubt they would have been as shocking as they were in 1997. They've lost their edge. Seeing a man wih funny green hair jumping around crazily is just soooooo last century dahling!
Well, another one bites the dust. Back to our Mc Jobs, occupational slumming and 101-isms for another year then!
Rocking or Shocking?
Rocking.
4/5
Give it to me baby!
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