Kevin Rowland was not bottled off at Reading!
During the first song, "The Greatest love of all", a number of bottles (i.e. more than one, less than ten) were thrown. After the first song, he asked for it to stop saying something like "I'm trying to sing these songs to the best of my ability". The next song "Concrete and Clay" involved the dancers, and apart from the 'licking bottoms' bit which turned most people's stomachs a bit (It was not pretty), passed OK. And the last song being "You'll never walk alone" got most of the crowd joining in in a football crowd style. And that was the end. He wasn't going to do a full set. and apart from the first song, there were few bottles thrown.
Leeds may have been a different story.
Daphne and Celeste I did not see.
50 Cent, as I said before, if you don't like the band/group/artist on stage, go get a burger/go to the other tent/etc. Was Leeds different?
In summary, you throw a bottle, you are stating your superiority to the artist on stage. And ergo, you are a wanker.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)
You got it wrong about the song order- "You'll Never.." was first, and "The Greatest Love" was last. Maybe at Leeds that was the order. But I remember the crowd at Reading was quite partisan to begin with. He looked quite moved by the crowd joining in with "You'll Never..", before taking the first of many plastic bottles, and after the song said "If the person next to you throws anything, hit him".
― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)
OK, I'm going off my memory here. (Reading based person...) My point being that he did not get 'bottled' off, but it seems to have gone down in Reading festival folklore as such.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)
Are the Rasmus too shit to even feature in this? Was Beck bottled off at Reading or Glastonbury, I forget.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)
Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler need to be here.
"Do you wanna rock'n'roll or do you wanna throw shit?"
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)
a little form column A, a little from column B...
― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Am I imagining it, or did the crowd then shout back "Throw shit!" as one.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)
TS is easy here for me: Daphne & Celeste made the album of the millenium so far!
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)
DAPHNE AND CELESTE SAY "UP YOUR BUTT WITH A COCONUT 50 CENT!!!!".
― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, Kevin Rowland and Daphne and Celeste are both fantastic, so 50 cent loses, I'm afraid. Wouldn't know how to choose between the other two though...maybe if it was Dexy's he would win, but otherwise.
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)
Curiously 50 Cent is the only one of these three acts whose music is currently available on CD,
My Beauty and the D&C album both having been long deleted.
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)