Reading Festival 2003
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 View fullsize InMe opened the festival with a strong performance. |
 View fullsize Finch, who I had hoped would be good, were not - noisy but incohesive. |
 View fullsize We were obviously on the Heathrow flightpath, as Concorde passed us once a day. |
 View fullsize Placebo were pretty good this year after some early sound problems required guitar swaps mid-song. |
 View fullsize After the dull performance in Big Day Out 99 I was impressed this time round! |
 View fullsize We didn't want to watch Blink182 but were stuck as they were sandwiched between proper bands. |
 View fullsize Still, they had some pyrotechnics to keep us amused. |
 View fullsize The lights were bright and shiny. The music was puerile and dull. |
 View fullsize And they wrote "FUCK" in flames on their backdrop, but as one letter lit up another would extinguish. |
 View fullsize Linkin Park were the best band of the weekend. |
 View fullsize The sound quality was excellent... |
 View fullsize ...and the performances were tight and energetic. A great night! |
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 View fullsize This car belonging to 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster was parked in the disabled and guest campsite. |
 View fullsize Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, caught as we wandered around scavenging food. Sounded quite good although I don't know their music. |
 View fullsize The Bloke, with me in the Carling Stage tent. |
 View fullsize While we waited for Billy Bragg we saw Brendan Benson. All his songs sounded like they'd borrowed riffs from other songs. It all sounded familiar without being distinctive. |
 View fullsize Billy Bragg didn't disappoint with a great set, including some old classics, some newer tracks, and political comment. |
 View fullsize The tent was dark so it was hard to get a shot, but the lights went up as we applauded New England at the close. |
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 View fullsize We visited a pub next to St Mary's church to watch the Grand Prix. The church is quite pretty, and over 1000 years old. |
 View fullsize System Of A Down, my favourite Armenian metal band. (How many can there be?) |
 View fullsize Ew, Daron's gone all hairy. He was so cute before! |
 View fullsize Cheers, moshing, circle pits and feet waving in the air. |
 View fullsize Shavo's still bald. |
 View fullsize An appreciative audience as the lights come up. |
 View fullsize Metallica's mixing desk - it's huge! The hairy hippy at the console had a large spliff as well as the knobs to play with. |
 View fullsize After leading us on with a LONG prelude, Metallica hit the stage. |
 View fullsize I was worried they would play too much new stuff but they only played a few tracks from St Anger. |
 View fullsize Most of it was old stuff like Harvester of Sorrows, Master of Puppets and Battery, so I rather enjoyed them. |
 View fullsize They had much better pyrotechnics than Blink182. |
 View fullsize The fireworks were well-timed, but fairly tame. |
 View fullsize My typical view of the stage as Metallica drew to a close. |
 View fullsize Lights dance over the campsite as we head to our car to drive home. |
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