Hi guys, so last week I went to the Reading Festival! And no, not Reading as in books, Reading as in the place. It was so much fun and at the same time disgusting but was well worth it! I saw tonnes of bands including all the main stage headliners and loads of smaller bands too, but writing about all of them is going to take a lot of time and space so I'm spreading this review out and won't talk about everyone I saw but almost everyone. As a heads up I'll list everyone saw in chronological order, note that for some of the bands I only stayed for a couple of songs!
Friday:
Parquet Courts
Fidlar
Peace
RX Bandits
The Strypes
Green Day
Saturday:
Palma Violets
Splashh
Imagine Dragons
Tame Impala
Jake Bugg
Eminem
Sunday:
Haim
Fall Out Boy
Nine Inch Nails
Biffy Clyro
So, a quick review of Friday's bands- Parquet Courts were great, they had a really great energy so the atmosphere was awesome, and I'd only heard two of their songs before seeing them so I was pleasantly surprised when they played the songs which I hadn't heard yet, I'd definitely recommend checking them out. On the other hand there was Fidlar, I did have a lot of fun at the gig but they didn't really convince me and I probably wouldn't listen to them on my iPod so I don't recommend them. The only reason I watched Fidlar was because I was waiting to see Peace, who I preferred but I'm not mad about them, I will check out their album though. While waiting to see The Strypes I wandered into the Lock Up Stage tent and caught a good amount of RX Bandit's set as I was intrigued by the sounds emanating from that tent, and was glad I did watch them instead of Kate Nash who I could hear wailing unintelligibly from the Festival Republic tent where The Strypes would be on. And The Strypes were awesome, really loud and fun with some great songs and a surprisingly long set, everyone singing along to "Blue Collar Jane." They may look about 12 but they're helping to save this generation of rock n roll. And then what we'd all been waiting for: Green Day.
Green Day deserve their own paragraph because they were just that AMAZING! They played a couple of songs, Billy Joe Armstrong talking to the crowd and getting us to chant, and then they proceeded to play their album "Dookie" in full! They even got a guy up on stage to sing along before they played "Dookie", and other highlights of their performance was when Billy got out a hose and what I can only describe as a toilet roll gun and started covering up the nearest camera with, you guessed it, toilet roll, and got an awesome t-shirt gun and starting firing Green Day merch out into the crowd. Mid set billy also started randomly playing a bit of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" and got everyone singing along for a bit. After playing "Dookie" they played a couple more songs with two encores, and out of their whole performance these songs -"Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Basket Case", "Minority", "American Idiot" "Jesus of Suburbia", and "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"- stood out to me the most. It was an incredibly long set so I was kinda tired by the end of it but it was well worth it, they saved the best till last in my opinion with their encores so I'm so glad I saw the entire performance. If I ever get the chance to see them again I am definitely going.
Anyways so that's day one of my Reading experience covered! Stay tuned for day two and three!
Yas xx
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