What Happened?

[danny12345]

I love Reading and the people who have been there for years like me but... it seems like (this festival especially is) attracting alot of f**king assholes. Bring on the backlash cos i dont care. Set up camp next to the friendliest guys in the world so I am a hypocrite but the whole experience felt uneasy, forced and childish. May have just been our campsite but people who start kicking tents and looking for friends at 5 in the morning are just f**king idiots. Anybody who replys with anything to stand up with what im saying is very lucky (and I apologise for the generalisation of 'c**ts') or they are f**king 16 17 year old w*nkers who dont realise how much people love music and dont need the hassle of dodging canisters. Im expecting a mouthful from the small majority who dont give a f**k about great bands playing in front of them but you have ruined 'my' festival.

Im sure people wouldve seen similar posts months ago but i wanted to put this across. Dont get me wrong, I enjoyed alot of bands but it was out numbered by the amount of assholes giving it the ol' IM AT READING bullshit who dont give 2 f**ks about the music. I hope for every PROPER music fans sake that this problem is sorted soon. Not everybody will agree because everybody has different festival experiences but u guys are the lucky ones. Everybody else whos gonna give it the old f**kING CHILL OUT ITS READING can go f**k thereselves cos that aint Reading. Its about the music, not about you c**ts who take the focus away from it

[meddick]

small majority

[Budweiser]

I love Reading and the people who have been there for years like me but... it seems like (this festival especially is) attracting alot of f**king assholes. Bring on the backlash cos i dont care. Set up camp next to the friendliest guys in the world so I am a hypocrite but the whole experience felt uneasy, forced and childish. May have just been our campsite but people who start kicking tents and looking for friends at 5 in the morning are just f**king idiots. Anybody who replys with anything to stand up with what im saying is very lucky (and I apologise for the generalisation of 'c**ts') or they are f**king 16 17 year old w*nkers who dont realise how much people love music and dont need the hassle of dodging canisters. Im expecting a mouthful from the small majority who dont give a f**k about great bands playing in front of them but you have ruined 'my' festival.

Im sure people wouldve seen similar posts months ago but i wanted to put this across. Dont get me wrong, I enjoyed alot of bands but it was out numbered by the amount of assholes giving it the ol' IM AT READING bullshit who dont give 2 f**ks about the music. I hope for every PROPER music fans sake that this problem is sorted soon. Not everybody will agree because everybody has different festival experiences but u guys are the lucky ones. Everybody else whos gonna give it the old f**kING CHILL OUT ITS READING can go f**k thereselves cos that aint Reading. Its about the music, not about you c**ts who take the focus away from it

[luckysalt]

This is why I stopped going

[jammy2211]

It gets worse every year.

[tommo_owl]

I love Reading and the people who have been there for years like me but... it seems like (this festival especially is) attracting alot of f**king assholes. Bring on the backlash cos i dont care. Set up camp next to the friendliest guys in the world so I am a hypocrite but the whole experience felt uneasy, forced and childish. May have just been our campsite but people who start kicking tents and looking for friends at 5 in the morning are just f**king idiots. Anybody who replys with anything to stand up with what im saying is very lucky (and I apologise for the generalisation of 'c**ts') or they are f**king 16 17 year old w*nkers who dont realise how much people love music and dont need the hassle of dodging canisters. Im expecting a mouthful from the small majority who dont give a f**k about great bands playing in front of them but you have ruined 'my' festival.

Im sure people wouldve seen similar posts months ago but i wanted to put this across. Dont get me wrong, I enjoyed alot of bands but it was out numbered by the amount of assholes giving it the ol' IM AT READING bullshit who dont give 2 f**ks about the music. I hope for every PROPER music fans sake that this problem is sorted soon. Not everybody will agree because everybody has different festival experiences but u guys are the lucky ones. Everybody else whos gonna give it the old f**kING CHILL OUT ITS READING can go f**k thereselves cos that aint Reading. Its about the music, not about you c**ts who take the focus away from it

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

I've never seen any of the rioting at Reading but it really does annoy me hearing about it, it's just so pointless.

[Matticus]

take out all the pointless radio bands and the general mass will stop coming, leaving real music fans.

[Sparticus]

asbos + some police intervention would sort this out. Make examples of the dim witted f**kers that think it's a good idea to make something explode when there's flammable tents all over the place. Give them a blanket ban from all fr and ln (do live nation still hold a state in r+l?) events and festivals, pretty much the same way they treat football hooligans. Don't get me wrong I used to play with fire all the time when i was younger, but we still had the sense not to endanger anyone other than ourselves.

[tom.a7x]

your not on your own mate, there were plenty of morons near us. Some guys were launching objects in a slinshot and 1 hit someone dead on face who had to to hospital aparently, I mean why take a slingshot ffs. Wherether you go theres days thers just no escaping idiots.

[Im_in_a_tent]

the problem is thats its tolerated to a certain extent by security / the police

i agree osmething needs tob e done about it

[dakyras]

I love Reading and the people who have been there for years like me but... it seems like (this festival especially is) attracting alot of f**king assholes. Bring on the backlash cos i dont care. Set up camp next to the friendliest guys in the world so I am a hypocrite but the whole experience felt uneasy, forced and childish. May have just been our campsite but people who start kicking tents and looking for friends at 5 in the morning are just f**king idiots. Anybody who replys with anything to stand up with what im saying is very lucky (and I apologise for the generalisation of 'c**ts') or they are f**king 16 17 year old w*nkers who dont realise how much people love music and dont need the hassle of dodging canisters. Im expecting a mouthful from the small majority who dont give a f**k about great bands playing in front of them but you have ruined 'my' festival.

Im sure people wouldve seen similar posts months ago but i wanted to put this across. Dont get me wrong, I enjoyed alot of bands but it was out numbered by the amount of assholes giving it the ol' IM AT READING bullshit who dont give 2 f**ks about the music. I hope for every PROPER music fans sake that this problem is sorted soon. Not everybody will agree because everybody has different festival experiences but u guys are the lucky ones. Everybody else whos gonna give it the old f**kING CHILL OUT ITS READING can go f**k thereselves cos that aint Reading. Its about the music, not about you c**ts who take the focus away from it

[biffoire]

take out all the pointless radio bands and the general mass will stop coming, leaving real music fans.

[pehaw]

T in the Park doesn't have the same trouble and that is nothing but radio bands!!

[Sparticus]

your not on your own mate, there were plenty of morons near us. Some guys were launching objects in a slinshot and 1 hit someone dead on face who had to to hospital aparently, I mean why take a slingshot ffs. Wherether you go theres days thers just no escaping idiots.

[dakyras]

someone in our group had a slingshot a couple of years ago, we were just using it to fire yoghurt and the like though, nothing heavy that could potentially kill someone. The security seemed to be hell bent on doing as little as possible, i went through the same gate every day as i knew the guy wasn't properly searching people.

[Superscally]

someone in our group had a slingshot a couple of years ago, we were just using it to fire yoghurt and the like though, nothing heavy that could potentially kill someone. The security seemed to be hell bent on doing as little as possible, i went through the same gate every day as i knew the guy wasn't properly searching people.

[TalkShow Bob]

Likewise at V.

[pehaw]

V dosent have the same demographic.

[TalkShow Bob]

Care to elaborate?

[SharonStoned]

If you're that unhappy try somewhere else ? I used to go to Leeds (as far back as when it was V) & loved it. Eventually though, got sick of the obligatory riots & the dick heads I had outgrown so voted with my feet.

There's more than this festival out there.

[dan666]

take out all the pointless radio bands and the general mass will stop coming, leaving real music fans.

[Bradders]

To me Leeds seems to be getting better every year ('riot'-wise). There used to be genuine riots a few years ago but now it seems to have calmed down. There's the fires and cannisters still. Which is stupid but not really dangerous if you just stay away from them. Can't say anyone else has ever had a negative impact on the festival atmosphere for me. It's always been just what we make of it.

[dan666]

Maybe it's just me getting old, But there was too many "kids" this year. W

[oscar]

Was my second Reading last year went `05 previously.Really didn`t enjoy it so will definetly not be returning.No matter who plays will eventually turn up on tour or another festival.