Junior Senior

Reading Festival 2003 review

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 30th Sep 2003

Reading Festival 2003

Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th August 2003
Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, England MAP
£95 for weekend (SOLD OUT), £40 any day
Daily capacity: 55,000

I'd seen them at Glastonbury where they'd got the crowd going with their crazy Europop and half expected them to do the same. I was wrong. I happily danced away but the crowd didn't. They hardly responded at all. Except once, Move your Feet, started and the crowd were suddenly dancing along with me. But as the song died so did the audience.

Junior Senior

To be honest the whole thing was wrong for Reading. Goths, punks, skaters and rockers were never going to get into the music produced by the fat bloke and his skinny cohort. But a sizable crowd watched them and stayed watching them as they produced a bright performance. They worked hard but it was pointless, you had to ask yourself why were they there?
review by: Scott Williams

photos by: Karen Williams


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