we may have juggalos but in the u.k. they have summer prodigy festival bank holiday fever!

is there some sort of law that the prodigy and placebo have to play at EVERY outdoor festival in the u.k.? is it in writing somewhere?

reading festival 2009 line-up:

radiohead
arctic monkeys
kings of leon

Kaiser Chiefs
Placebo
Fall Out Boy
Deftones
Funeral For A Friend
NEW FOUND GLORY
Alexisonfire
Madina Lake
Sonic Boom Six

The Prodigy
Maximo Park
Very Special Guest IAN BROWN
The Courteeners
Enter Shikari
Eagles of Death Metal
The Rakes
Fightstar
Mariachi El Bronx

Bloc Party
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Vampire Weekend
Brand New
The View
The Living End
Noah & The Whale

Faith No More
Jamie T
Friendly Fires
Florence And The Machine
Jack Peñate
The Horrors
Little Boots
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Virgins
Manchester Orchestra
DANANANANAYKROYD
Gossip
Glasvegas
White Lies
The Maccabees
You Me At Six
Patrick Wolf
Metric
Spinnerette
Delphic
Dinosaur Pile Up
Lostprophets
AFI
Gallows
The Gaslight Anthem
Crystal Castles
Passion Pit
Metronomy
Frank Turner
Lethal Bizzle
In Case Of Fire
Broadway Calls

Billy Talent
ANTI FLAG
Alexisonfire
Bouncing Souls
Leftover Crack
The Aggrolites
Streetlight Manifesto
Fake Problems
Riverboat Gamblers
The Flatliners
The Ghost Of A Thousand
The Plight
RISE AGAINST
Thursday
The Bronx
Mad Caddies
Rival Schools
Set Your Goals
Snuff
Municipal Waste
A Wilhelm Scream
Chuck Ragan
Polar Bear Club
The Computers
DEADMAU5
Vitalic
MSTRKRFT
Chase And Status
Lady Sovereign
The Crystal Method
The Qemists
Das Pop
Chipmunk
3OH!3
Master Shortie
L’AMOUR LA MORGUE

Marmaduke Duke
Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan
Black Lips
The Blackout
Bring Me The Horizon
Atreyu
La Roux
Lightspeed Champion
The Rumble Strips

Also appearing
65DAYSOFSTATIC A Place To Bury Strangers Amazing Baby
Baddies Bear Hands The Big Pink
Bombay Bicycle Club Broken Records The Chapman Family
Detroit Social Club Fight Like Apes Go:Audio
Golden Silvers Grammatics Hockey
The Hot Rats Jack's Mannequin The Joy Formidable
Lightspeed Champion Magistrates Middle Class Rut
Marina And The Diamonds Pulled Apart By Horses Single File
Skint And Demoralised SWEETHEAD The Temper Trap
Titus Andronicus WHITE DENIM The XX

if u r a UKer tell us all about the worst summer festival you ever went to, the best one, the worst band you ever saw at one, and the best band. okay?

if you feel like it.

summer festivals here are mostly about hot muddy beer and sunstroke. if you can find one with shade it is recommended.

summer festivals here are mostly about hot muddy beer and sunstroke. if you can find one with shade it is recommended.

Agreed. The otherwise ridiculous Lollapalooza 1993 in Irwindale had a patch of trees near the second stage and I remember chilling under one of them while idly watching/listening to Dos and Thurston Moore's sets.

worst: i've not really had a bad experience at a summer festival - maybe V97 just because getting out of there at the end of the night in the pouring rain trying to get on a bus sucked. i was supposed to go to Reading for the day in 2002 but bailed...girlfriend at the time was already there so not pleased, then later when she was trying to drive off the site a bunch of drunken lairy people surrounded her car banging on the windows etc. so the guilt i already felt got ramped up to 11 ha ha (no that i would've been any real use in that situation)

best: first glastonbury probably cos of the novelty, good weather, it was back when 100,000 people could rock up without paying...

Worst...Reading 1987 - The Mission, Fields Of The Neph, Magnum, The Enid, Vow Wow, All About Eve, about 50 lame-o Marquee support bands (ones who went on to be famous : Quireboys, Thunder...aargh). Yes I know some of you will be creaming over some of that line-up, but believe me the Neffers DID NOT WORK at 2pm in the sun. Alice Cooper was the big draw but he had that Rambo guy on guitar at the time and it was shite. The only enjoyable bands all weekend were Status Quo and the Georgia Satellites, which should give you some indication of the general standard.

Best...um...

Worst band seen...has to be The Bolshoi.

Best...Dio, Donington 1983! Yes I am old.

I know someone who was at that Reading and he said it was the last good Reading before it went utter shite.

He was wrong! Although the next year was the infamous Saturday night line-up of Starship, Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler so I probably got off lightly. Reading 1987 - I recall some kind of running pitched battle between Eskimos (Mission fans) and whatever Sisters Of Mercy fans were called. I think Hussey and Eldritch were having some feud through the pages of the music press and the fans got caught up in it on the campsite. Clods of earth flying everywhere! The Nephilim fans stayed out of it, as I guess did the Rose Of Avalanche fans.

oh maybe it was the next year he said was the last good line up. He was at both years anyway I think as well as 89. did the mission play in 89?

whatever was the last "rawk" lineup anyway was the "last year it was good". sad thing is he was probably only about 18 or 19 then and not an old fart.

Worst band seen...has to be The Bolshoi.

Aw man, I used to love those fellows!