Enter Shikari (with live video)

Reading Festival 2009 review with video

By Scott Williams | Published: Sun 30th Aug 2009

Reading Festival 2009 - Enter Shikari (main stage)
Photo credit: Karen Williams

Reading Festival 2009

Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August 2009
Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ, England MAP
£175 for a weekend ticket, £70 a day ticket - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 55,000

Enter Shikari hit the main stage a few hours after their surprise acoustic set on the BBC Introducing Stage. There they played three re-worked gentle numbers; this set is a crunching hard-edged stampeding, mosh fuelled, dust cloud generating onslaught.

At last Reading sees some rock and its deliverers have come of age. They even get the sweaty crowd to do some old-school skanking. 'Labyrinth', 'No Sleep Tonight', 'Mothership', and 'Juggernaut' are amongst the hard-hitting sing-a-long numbers.

This is the festival they used to come to as kids, and they say its "surreal" to be back in front of such a huge crowd - and on this performance they'll be back again, and soon.

They even try to break the record for the most crowd srfers over the barrier, they might just have achieved it. Monu-mental!

You can check out Enter Shikari doing 'No Sleep Tonight' at Reading Festival for yourself - just play the videos below!


review by: Scott Williams


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