The Reading and Leeds weekend is obviously in a state of transition. With Download and Sonisphere now the new ‘heavy’ festivals, this is now a festival that wants to appeal to both indie kid and heavy rocker. As such, the lineup is littered with such curiosities as The Living End preceding The View. This is [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2009 by Max
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As the festival ended, I thought it was time to honour some of the winners and the losers from this year’s Reading Festival: Best band of the festival – It’s probably a tie between the hard-hitting Them Crooked Vultures and sure-fire winning headline slot by Radiohead. Worst band of the festival – The stropy tantrums [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2009 by Max
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Even I, a pretty keen fan of Radiohead, was a bit weirded out when I first heard that they would be headlining on Sunday night at Reading. The last time the band played the festival was in 1994 as the band started moving away from the backlash that accompanied them after Pablo Honey and even [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by Max
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In 2007, Bloc Party delivered a decent set at Reading, supporting the Arcade Fire and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but nothing that would set the world on fire. They returned to the festival a year later, rising up to support The Killers, and rejuvenated after releasing their third album, Intimacy, just a few days [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by Max
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It’s choices glory as I arrive on site on Sunday a bit later than the previous two days and instead of seeing the grimy hip hop of Lethal Bizzle and the folky tunes of Noah And The Whale I head to the Festival Republic Stage to see the much-hyped The XX. After handing out free [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by Max
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