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I'm off to Leeds festival this weekend. Given that in the past few months my appreciation of music has travelled off on a tangent (this is a good thing) and I now approach it differently than I used to, am I going to be hugely disappointed? Will I find the entire weekend a dodgy, expensive indie-fest? Is there any hope?

― person#0 (person#0), Monday, 18 August 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

these questions and more will be answered in the next episode of Soap!

doing reading this weekend... heard rumours that Mark Lanegan is playing. the line-up's nowhere near as exciting this year, though. still can't believe they didn't sign Gossip to the lineup.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 18 August 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm starting to look back on the lineup now and wonder why I parted with 100 quid. Initially I was tempted by the presence of Interpol, but that ship sailed long ago...

― person#0 (person#0), Monday, 18 August 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

white stripes, if they'd maintained the intensity of the last UK tour (or Reading 02, or indeed any other time I've seen 'em) woulda been cool. but they're gone, of course, too...

am driving up to leeds the night after the festivals (monday) to review Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls... should be a killer show.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 18 August 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't be bothered to go to Reading this year.

This'll be the 3rd time I haven't gone since 1977 (I live in Reading btw), the last two being when it got horribly HM for a couple of years in the late '80's.

If I could have re-arranged the running order I reckon there are enough acts that I'm interested in over the three days to make one worthwhile day.

Frankly I think the quality of the headliners in particular has nosedived since they started running Leeds in tandem with it.

It sounds like it's going to be total chaos this year too, 'cos there are no trains running over the w/e (apparently RailTrack are doing "essential maintenance" on the the lines, despite the Festival organisers, Reading BC, the TV Police, and the Railways police all asking them not to); and there's barely enough space to park all the vehicles that normally come into the Festival every year....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 18 August 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

heard rumours that Mark Lanegan is playing

*jealous* Still have yet to see him live.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 August 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in Leeds and I'm giving the festival a miss for the first time since the northern leg started. The main stage acts have never interested me over-much, but this year the programming of the smaller stages seems sadly unimaginative.

After driving to London and back on Thursday to see Sleater-Kinney / Scout Niblett / Fiery Furnaces, I worked out that I'd spent almost as much as a weekend ticket for the festival. I still reckon I got the better deal.

am driving up to leeds the night after the festivals (monday) to review Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls...

Will you be wearing a hat with "critic" written on it, so we can recognise you? We're not used to sophisticated metropolitan types venturing this far outside the M25, you know.

can't believe they didn't sign Gossip to the lineup

Ah, but they're playing in Leeds the Tuesday after the festival, supported by the mighty Hooker. This + Pretty Girls Make Graves = me not missing tramping round a bloody field all weekend.

― chris j (chris j), Monday, 18 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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