Riots

[Budweiser]

So as this will be my 6th year at Reading festival, i was wondering if they're actually going to be getting stricter with security. From my experience the riots on the sunday nights have been getting worse and worse and it's time they done something about it. does anyone know if they'll be doing anything this year to enforce that?

Edited February 3, 2010 by Budweiser

[Sparticus]

So as this will be my 6th year at Reading festival, i was wondering if they're actually going to be getting stricter with security. From my experience the riots on the sunday nights have been getting worse and worse and it's time they done something about it. does anyone know if they'll be doing anything this year to enforce that?

[Role Model]

i doubt it, i expect my group will do the usual thing we've done over the last few years, and head off right after the headliner on sunday night. too old for that shit now, and i'm only 21

solving it isnt easy, but there's just no sign or even pretend feeling that the security are in any sort of control, it's quite pathetic.

Edited February 3, 2010 by Role Model

[Vieuphoria]

f**king stupidity really pisses me off. They need to be stricter. But then again i can see the security going tits up when they penalise innocent people. Not sure how the could combat it?

[rexclark]

A higher police presence would work but if anything went wrong the festival could easily lose it's licence. Getting the police would also cost quite a bit of money.

[Sparticus]

A higher police presence would work but if anything went wrong the festival could easily lose it's licence. Getting the police would also cost quite a bit of money.

[jonnyisRFC]

Right, heres a sugestion...

how about they put it in the terms and conditions when buying tickets that anyone caught burning anything than firewood will be evicted?

Also when you get your wristbands on, the guys that give them to you could remind people of this also have signs around the entrance of the festival reminding people of this.

That way hopefully anyone burning tents will be evicted.

Ofcourse people getting evicted on sunday night wont mind so i dont know what the police do at the moment when catching people burning tents and things on the big fires, but should now be arested and banned for life from Reading/Leeds.

[Budweiser]

They're going to need get stricter or this great festival will be remembered as the one with all the "riots", and people will think it's ok to start them. It' sso annoying to have a great weekend ruined by people who can't take their alcohol.

[thetime]

Riots? What riots? Kids running around being silly doesn't mean a riot.

A clip around there ears should sort it!

[Vieuphoria]

the fires, and breaking of fences and toilets, the burning of tents, and fighting is quite riot like. It's just pathetic.

[kev1664]

the fires, and breaking of fences and toilets, the burning of tents, and fighting is quite riot like. It's just pathetic.

[soundrevolution]

Don't know about Reading but the 'riots' at Leeds were very tame at Leeds last year. The gas cannister rule stopped a lot of explosions, and the stewards seemed to be doing a good job. The Sunday night was pretty grim as usual, but at no time did I feel threatened. A few fires around yellow as usual but not a lot more.

Having said that, though, walking through red and blue to the pick up zone on Monday morning it looked like a bomb site, 28 Days Later aftermath or something. Perhaps I just got lucky in 09.

[5co77ie]

So as this will be my 6th year at Reading festival, i was wondering if they're actually going to be getting stricter with security. From my experience the riots on the sunday nights have been getting worse and worse and it's time they done something about it. does anyone know if they'll be doing anything this year to enforce that?

[Paul ™]

They should give us tazers

[rexclark]

They should give us tazers

[Paul ™]

It would turn the campsite into The Running Man.

[rexclark]

I mean security.. not you lot

[Budweiser]

Most people can't be trusted with a lighter nevermind anything else.

[rexclark]

Imagine if they did give everyone tazers

[glasto-worker]

I have worked at Reading for the past twenty years with the WBC and there has always been a problem - sure some years are worse than others .

Lucky enough as I don't camp in the normal camping area I have not been personally involved although I do get a lot of feedback from our own Security.

Call it a riot or high jinx but for people who get caught up in it they must go away wondering why Reading does attract a certain amount of Nutters who think its fun.

If I was a ticket holder Melvin { we used to work together with the WBC } would have to pay me to attend.

Although Latitude has only been going for a few years it has been able to avoid the major problems that blights Reading.

Only time will tell if the possible police crack down does any good.

[tori1607]

I went to Reding in 08 for the first time and really enjoyed the festival but the sunday night was not good, tents on fire close to mines and huge fires and festival workers getting abuse for telling people to put fires out, why cant everyone just have a good sunday night without being the "angry mob" Cant really comment as i have only been to T and Reading but never have i seen this kind of stuff at T in the Park, is this rioting mostly R & L fests ? Or is it at most fests

Edited February 10, 2010 by tori1607

[glasto-worker]

is this rioting mostly R & L fests ? Or is it at most fests

[rexclark]

Whats the policing like at Reading? There seems to be a distinct lack of them at Leeds compared to other festivals I've been to.

[TalkShow Bob]

I dont get this "things are geting worse" stuff. There really not. Things are nowhere near what they were in the early 00s and every year it gets calmer and calmer. Yes its still a problem but its not an ever increacing problem. This year was by far my quietsust sunday night. They did have a higher police and secuiryt precence this year, but everyone seems to ignor that. It worked well - and I think there planning on having it again this comming Reading (and probably upping it looking at the interview Scottie posted) so agin it will be calmer. But I bet next year the same threads will pop up saying its worse than ever.

[thetime]

Sad state of affairs if a festival needs a high presence of police is this what it has become? A high police presence so people behave!!

I rememeber when everyone was chilled and got on together, but I suppose its a society thing!