Klaxons

Reading Festival 2006

Friday 25th to Sunday 27th August 2006
Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ, England MAP
£135 for weekend (including camping), £60 any day

Daily capacity: 55,000

What the...? The tent is rammed! It's fuller than I have ever seen it, the crowd is so big it spreads right the way across the entrance to the edge of the merchandise stall. It's the most people I've ever seen and make last year's Arctic Monkey crowd look small!

I'm not really sure what's going on, as I've never heard of them until now. The whole place appears to think it's a rave, there are glo-sticks everywhere and it's packed with people in day glo or glo in the dark clothing. Then they start and kick off a rave of epic proportions!

Who the hell are these guys? And how have they got such a following? Whistles fill the air. The band shout out, "Yesterday, I thought Leeds was incredible but you guys!" And there' a wall of human noise! This is what Reading is all about, finding someone you've never heard of holding the party of the weekend!

It makes us feel special to be there and the crowd are lapping up every beat! 'Dance with me!' and the crowd are havin' it large! Blokes and girls covered in day-glo are crowd surfing, this is nu-disco rave it appears none of them know the words, but that's not important it's the beat that gets us all bouncing! Incredible! The Bouncer, Atlantis To Interzone and Gravity's Rainbow are just superb electronica rave beats! These boys could soon give Underworld, Eat Static or The Chemical Brothers a run for their money. With a VJ and a dance set up they'll be as big as The Shamen a band they kind of remind me of at times!

No idea where they've come from, but they have a huge following and sound good enough to take a main stage night slot somewhere and take the party into the night. If you like to dance with a glo stick check this lot out - they are the hot new boys of nu-rave!

review by: Scott Williams