Reading Festival 2006
Friday 25th to Sunday 27th August 2006Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ, England MAP
£135 for weekend (including camping), £60 any day
Daily capacity: 55,000
Im only able to watch the first twenty minutes as Pearl Jam and these Mercury Music prize nominees overlap. Plus I saw their set here last year in the Dance Tent when I was one of only twenty watching them. Theyre less static tonight clearly trying to lose the Stephen Hawkins band tag of sitting behind their laptops. Some of them even don guitars at one point.
Theyre also no longer dressed in the eye hurting shell suits. The tent is hot and the crowd ready to dance to this lot whose light electro pop reminds me of Lemonjellys first album and makes everyone feel happy and theres lots of smiling.
Its also pretty funky and theres loads of folks shaking their booty to this energetic disco flavoured music is fun and rather reminiscent of both the Seventies and the Eighties at the same time. You could get lost in the number of samples their laptops are kicking out.
In twenty minutes theyve played bits of every tune I can remember playing in peoples kitchens at parties. I reckon theyve rifled through their record collection and stolen everything they liked the sound of.
They're clever little electro-nerds who are looking much less geeky these days and are making great music for todays kids to play at parties in kitchens.
review by: Scott Williams
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