Does Rock Music Really Need Reading & Leeds Festival?

Before there was Download, before there was Slam Dunk, before 2000Trees or ArcTangent, there was Reading Festival. Like a lot of people of a certain age, that was my introduction to rock music in a festival setting, and my first time there was in the year 2000. On the bill that weekend were the likes of Rage Against The Machine, blink-182, Limp Bizkit, Foo Fighters and Deftones, none of whom were even headlining – a sign of the times or what. As helicopters hovered in the skies above on the ‘rock day’ that Sunday, Slipknot performing at sunset felt genuinely dangerous. Someone pushed one of those giant metal bins-on-wheels into the pit and people climbed on top to dive off onto the crowd below. Earlier that day, pop duo Daphne And Celeste were (predictably and depressingly) bottled off sta...

Foo Fighters

1.This Is a Call 2.I'll Stick Around 3.Big Me 4.Alone + Easy Target 5.Good Grief 6.Floaty 7.Weenie Beenie 8.Oh, George 9.For All the Cows 10.X-Static 11.Wattershed 12.Exhausted

We Are Not Your Kind

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