Mumford and Sons.

[j...rox]

Reason they shouldn't headline. Phoenix needed lights to show, otherwise it wouldnt even have come close to how good they were, granted the same could be said about Delphic who should have headlined FR stage. LCD also hugely important and deserving after 3 amazing albums. Phoenix were 100% the best act I saw that day. Mumfor just not the same and wish I had gone to QOTSA.

[she bangs the drums]

I think they should headline V Festival next year before spliting up and never playing R & L again.

[lharris92]

the quote of the weekend for me was "who are mumford & sons they sound like a funeral directors?"

anyway QOTSA it was for me and i dont regret it!

[rockinthecasbah]

Whatever your opinions on Mumford and Sons (I can take or leave them,) there's no denying they've become massive in the last few months. They wouldn't have been booked any lower than NME headliners if they'd been this big at the time of booking.

[angrymammal]

Given their rapid rise I think there's an argument for having promoted them to middle order mainstage, the tent certainly wasn't big enough. Just watching it back on the red button and recognised the silhouette of the back of my head as we were standing directly in front of the soundstage barrier,

[VCK]

Crushes for Mumford And Sons?

What, was there huge mosh pits for Winter Winds or something?

[Bradders]

Think it shows that what genre the music is has less to do with crushes than how many nobheads who only ever listen to Radio 1 there are there. I'm not really being a music snob (well maybe a bit), but just trying to say people who go for the music are likely to be more friendly than people who go just to get wasted and piss about.

[Jimmyeatspeople]

Colin Murray had it right when he came on before Blink.. Real rock fans aren't dickheads.

Unfortunately it seems like a good proportion of the Leeds crowd now are dickheads.

100% sure im going to go Glastonbury next year, its something that i have always wanted to do and I just cant be arsed with the Leeds Crowd anymore.

[theramm]

It seems mental that people can attend Download & come out of pits for Slipknot, Lamb of God etc unscathed yet fricking Mumford & Sons cause chaos.

[Jimmyeatspeople]

It seems mental that people can attend Download & come out of pits for Slipknot, Lamb of God etc unscathed yet fricking Mumford & Sons cause chaos.

[ben.illsley]

Think it shows that what genre the music is has less to do with crushes than how many nobheads who only ever listen to Radio 1 there are there. I'm not really being a music snob (well maybe a bit), but just trying to say people who go for the music are likely to be more friendly than people who go just to get wasted and piss about.

Edited September 1, 2010 by ben.illsley

[theramm]

rather significant difference between a pit and a crush though

[ap3311]

Pits at places like Download will always be safer, everyone there knows the deal and the etiquette. A good proportion of the R/L probably have never been involved in a pit before. People were making them during Paramore and You Me At Six etc and I saw quite a few people go down and no one help them back up.

[j-j-j-j-joe!]

Pits at places like Download will always be safer, everyone there knows the deal and the etiquette. A good proportion of the R/L probably have never been involved in a pit before. People were making them during Paramore and You Me At Six etc and I saw quite a few people go down and no one help them back up.

[Vieuphoria]

ha NoFX were f**king funny

[Dave The Hedgehog]

100% sure im going to go Glastonbury next year, its something that i have always wanted to do and I just cant be arsed with the Leeds Crowd anymore.

[swede]

Was going to go and see M&S but the sheer amount of people heading that way I knew we wouldnt get anywhere near the tent.

*As for seeing QOTSA, f**king dreadful band, and please before you lecture me I have had to bear witness to their shitty brand of pub rock, with Olivieri, without him and also under the many guises the ginger c**t has been under. You would think I would learn.

[swede]

Indeed.

I've been to one Leeds festival and for the most part I f**king hated the people. The only complaint I have of the whole festival was the amount of w*nkers there were lingering about, and it got so much worse after the beer and drugs kicked in.

Me and my missus camped in Green (campsite but that was because of 'transportation problems' - and you'd think that because you were further away, you'd have a lot less w*nkers but honestly if Green or Brown were the tamer camp sites, then I dread to think what it would have been like slept in the favelas of White and Yellow. I have very little bad things to say about the Leeds Festival experience but the seemingly vast majority of w*nkers in the campsites was one of them.

[handsintheair]

Oh God yeah

The vibe surrounding the NME stage at Leeds was f**king hostile, man. My missus was looking forward to them and we were behind the middle barrier (don't ask how we got there) and before they took the stage we had to get out of there because the crowd was so vicious - we saw girls being bottled, people being smashed in the face... it was f**king astonishing to see that sort of thing when you'd go in expecting a relaxed crowd of people who wanted to see a folk band. So many people were leaving and so many people were arriving - it was mad. The crowd there was more hostile than Limp Bizkit's which is saying something when a typical Limp Bizkit crowd consists of a bunch of rapists.

[Vieuphoria]

...and Reading

[Joe-]

Wow, the place I saw Mumford everyone was dancing with eachother. I coulda sworn there was a barn dance as well.

I just can't picture it.

[swede]

Crushes for Mumford And Sons?

What, was there huge mosh pits for Winter Winds or something?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

My question is WHY?

[Smally]

I met the nicest bloke (His wife and wifes mate were awesome too) ever when sat down while watching Mumford, he brought his 3 year old son along and fed me booze for the whole set. An absolute babe.

[Vieuphoria]

We spent 10 minutes of the set outside watching the screens and even there people were causing trouble. Bottles being thrown everywhere, kids climbing up the NME Tent poles, girls being felt up, verbal abuse as far as the ears could hear - it was f**king hostile. We decided it was for the best if we went over to see QOTSA.