Top 10

[sjp_121]

1) Arcade Fire - They where so so good. The crowd singing the intro to Wake Up as we where walking back up to the Campsite was such an amazing feeling to be part of it

2) Weezer - I almost forced my friends to come along, but they where there anyway so they could stay for Paramore and Blink... and I was a bit worried they wouldn't enjoy it... but they al said to me afterwards how amazing they where. It was one of the best things I have ever seen in my life, second only to Arcade Fire. Just brilliant

3) Frank Turner - I'm a bit biased here, because he is one of my favourite artists ever, but WOW! The whole atmosphere in the tent was amazing, and the whole crowd singing along to so many songs. Oh and the Circle Jig at the end was a stroke of genius!

4) The Gaslight Anthem - The passion Brian Fallon put into the performance was brilliant I thought. And you could see how much he enjoys going out and playing gigs to the crowds. So pleased I got to go see them.

5) Biffy Cylro - The beard was amazing enough! Really enjoyed their set, shame Get F**ked Stud wasn't played as I do love that song, but everything else was great... and Many of Horror had me in tears, after pissing myself with the whole Amp thing. Although, I was next to a screaming teenager saying how much she loved Biffy Cylro and they where her favourite band, and then when Jaggy Snake was played, she said "What the hell is this? This isn't by them?" *sigh*

6) Gogol Bordello - I had been singing Start Wearing Purple all weekend with randomers... and it didn't disappoint. Great fun, and loved having a dance to them in some Wellies

7) Modest Mouse - Shame about them leaving out Float On at Leeds, I was really looking forward to it if they played it. But they played Black Cadillacs which is my favourite song by them, so I was so happy singing along to that at the top of my voice.

LostProphets - Where they really as bad as people where making out? I admit they weren't amazing, but I really enjoyed their set, specially the Sweet Child O Mine intro they did. And Omen was great. Their set was varied enough, I'm pleased it had Last Summer on it, and a few of Liberation Transmission. For me, a highlight of the day.

9) The Libertines - Festival Republic did a risk in my opinion booking them... and they really didn't disappoint. Really enjoyed their set, and thought Pete wasn't as much as a dick as he could have been. Enjoyed singing along to all their hits, and surprised me at how good they where. Not amazing, but defiantly a good band to see.

10) Guns N Roses - Sort of. No where near as good as I expected. Yes the show was good... with the pyrotechnics... but that distracted away from the music... which was also good, and it was good to here the hits. But I realised two things... It was missing something... not Slash or anything like that... but the whole set seemed... too staged, and not free flowing like other bands I had seen. And the whole atmosphere was ridiculously tense and awkward where I was... specially with everyone around me saying that DJ Ashba was a dick and a disgrace for looking like Slash with the Top Hat and guitar. I also heard shouts of him miming :S But they where better than some of the other bands I had seen in the weekend, and Axl's voice is still as good as it ever was. November Rain was amazing to see, and Sweet Child O Mine was an amazing experience in my opinion

This was all at Leeds

[rexclark]

1,) Arcade Fire

2.) Guns n Roses

3.) Limp Bizkit

4.) Weezer

5.) The Cribs

6.) Kele

7.) Emo Philips

8.) The Libertines

9.) Kevin Bridges

10.) Dizzee Rascal

[saskofreak]

Isn't that sort of the point though? I've never seen them before but from what I could gather they seemed to be intentionally bad. Their crappy banner, awful chat, racist jokes and being introduced as "the worst band you'll see this weekend" etc?

[Huwbacca]

1. Weezer

2. Biffy Clyro

3. blink-182

4. Mumford and Sons

5. The Cribs

6. Pendulum

7. The Futureheads

8. Mystery Jets

9. Lostprophets

10. Kele

[angrymammal]

1) Weezer

2) Arcade Fire

3) Frank Turner

4) Mumfords

5) Libertines

6) Yeasayer

7) Goldheart Assembly

Biffy

9) We are scientists

10) British Sea Power

[Asher7]

has anyone noticed that no-one who's put arcade fire (and I'm assuming saw them, coz if u saw them u'd put them in ur top10) has put them lower than 4th, i think that says a lot.

for me:

1. Arcade Fire

2. Blink 182

3. Queens of the Stone Age

4. Weezer

5. The Libertines

6. Biffy Clyro

7. Frank Turner

8. Lost Prophets

9. Rufus Hound

10. Gaslight Anthem

[sjp_121]

has anyone noticed that no-one who's put arcade fire (and I'm assuming saw them, coz if u saw them u'd put them in ur top10) has put them lower than 4th, i think that says a lot.

Edited September 1, 2010 by sjp_121

[surfwaves]

Reading

1. The Libertines- Really awesome.

2. Queens Of The Stone Age- Wanted to see them for a long time and they rocked.

3. Klaxons- Much better live now then when I last saw them. The new songs are good aswell.

4. Gogol Bordello- So mucah fun watching them.

5. The Cribs- Seen them loads always good, crowd was a bit dead tho. Played the epic Be Safe.

[Tom1889]

1. Arcade Fire

2. Blink 182

3. The Cribs

4. lostprophets

5. Paramore

6. Guns n' Roses

7. Enter Shikari

8. Gallows (The Rats)

9. Modest Mouse

10. Limp Bizkit

Nearly made the list: Biffy Clyro, Hatebreed, Nerves, A Day To Remember

[Vieuphoria]

Raise your hand if you were silly and didn't see Weezer

[dblythe]

Attended Leeeeeds.

1. Arcade Fire. - No explantion needed.

2. Phoenix. - Didn't really know anything by them, but they were freaking awesome.

3. We Are Scientists. - As entertainig as any show I've ever seen.

4. LCD Soundsystem. - Could've been higher IF THEY PLAYED A f**kING ENCORE.

5. Everything Everything (x2) - Went in thinking it would be good fun, by their second set i was a huge fan. and they played weights the second time

6. Adam Green. - When doesn't he put on a great performance?

7. Gogol Bordello. - Just perfect for a nice sunny afternoon!

8. The Libertines. - I expected more, but it was a nice enough sing along.

9. Wild Beasts. - Just a very very very good band.

10. Klaxons. - They put on a good show.

Just missing out would be the cribs. huge fan but the crowd was nothing were i was, got nothing more than weird looks for singing every word!

Quite NME orintated, but I had a cracking weekend all round!

Lows.

Mumford - Felt like half an hour of hell in between Adam Green and Phoenix. Fuuuucking hated it.

Rolo Tomassi - Was this a band or a f**king exorcism, waiting for Everything Everything, first band of the weekend, and it. was. awful.

Mystery Jets - Sound was awful, expected more, only band i walked away from which i was looking forward to.

Roll on 2011!

Edited September 1, 2010 by dblythe

[Vieuphoria]

calling Rolo an exorcism made me lol.... well done sir

[KingOfTheRodeo]

1) Arcade Fire

2) Blink 182

3) The Libertines

4) Weezer

5) Two Door Cinema Club

6) Yeasayer

7) The Skints

Frank Turner

9) Local Natives

10) Mumford & Sons

[KingOfTheRodeo]

Raise your hand if you were silly and didn't see Weezer

[nat81]

1. Queens Of The Stone Age

2. Atari Teenage Riot

3. Guns N' Roses

4. Weezer

5. Ash

6. Paramore

7. Biffy Clyro

8. Serj Tankian

9. The Gaslight Anthem

10. Limp Bizkit

[Vieuphoria]

I was so close to seeing Minus The Bear instead as I am a huge fan but resisted the temptation as I've been waiting to see Weezer for years. Confident that I made the right decision

[nat81]

Even with the lacking crowd i'm still surprised how the f**k the tent stay up. They were incredible. The crowd size did seem to grow throughout though. Almost like people were saying "what the f**k is that noise... lets get in there"... they were brilliant though.

[lucastang]

Reading

1) Blink 182

Put it this way: Musicianship was poor, the sound was even more dreadful. But the crowd atmosphere, singing along to every single word, the energy they had, how loud we were, seeing banter between Tom and Mark, and just seeing your favourite childhood band did it for me. Definitely worth missing the Klaxons for.

2) Arcade Fire

Don't understand why everybody was slating them about not being worthy to headline or having the smallest crowd. Completely blew me away with their set, brilliant songs, everybody singing to the intro to Wake Up, absolutely brilliant.

3) Queens of the Stone Age

Josh Homme was so high! More or less a greatest hits setlist, haven't listened to them much before I saw them, but I really enjoyed it.

4) Two Door Cinema Club

As the frontman puts it, "Thank you Reading for giving us the best experience we ever had."

5) The Libertines

Was very up to go see them, but slightly disappointed to be honest. The surge in the crowd was unbearable, but nevertheless, put on an awesome show. Big gamble, did it pay off? I would say so.

6) Weezer

Most surprising act of the weekend for me, the frontman was mad! Loved it.

7) Phoenix

Brilliant atmosphere in the tent, put on a great live show, one of the best critically acclaimed bands around at the moment. In personal opinion, if they had another album, would have headlined instead of LCD.

Limp Bizkit

Another surprising one, Fred Durst is not a dick as much as he used to be, very much enjoyed the hits.

9) Lostprophets

Not on form like they usually are, setlist didn't include any old favourites, but crowd made it for me.

10) Delphic

Great musicianship again, really good in the tent. Though the crowd being full of chavs was a bit disappointing.

[Chihiro Cheeks]

Not sure if there are even gonna be 10! lol

1. Blink 182

2. Weezer

3. Arcade Fire

4. Mumford and Sons

5. The Libertines

6. Alkaline Trio

7. NOFX

8. Limp Bizkit

Will have to settle for top 8. The rest just kinda blend together! lol

[handsintheair]

1. Arcade Fire (tho the crowd was shit)

2. Foals (& best crowd of the weekend, amount of crowdsurfers was insane!!)

3. Gallows (another great crowd, circle pit outside the tent!)

4. Queens of the Stone Age (shit crowd tho)

5. Rolo Tomassi (her speech about playing Leeds was so moving)

6. Kele

7. Villagers

8. Phoenix

9. Alain Johannes

10. Funeral Party/Trash Talk/Frank Turner/Band of Horses

Really sorry we missed Weezer tho

[Electricityscape]

Leeds:

1 - The Libertines - Just because, and they did put on a great show In my opinion. Singing along to the classics, just brilliant.

2 - Limp Bizkit - Performed top notch, couldn't help but move while listening to them and Wes' costume was quite something.

3 - Arcade Fire - The parts I did see were superb, really put on a great show.

4 - Cypress Hill - JULIO JULIO JULIO JULIO JULIO !

5 - Magnetic Man - Usually try and stay away from the Dance Tent but them three were excellent.

6 - Delphic - Real bouncy show.

7 - Weezer - Just great.

8 - Klaxons - Saw the second half of their gig and they were genius. Real lively and looked like they wanted to be there.

9 - Dizzee - Similar reason for Klaxons, really looked to be enjoying it and wanted to be there.

10 - Blink - Thought they did well, thought they tried their best to motivate the crowd. But the sound was poor as well as the crowd, and I think Limp had shown them up earlier.

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

Reading..

1. Libertines - waited too long for it and was just totally in awe

2. Blink 182 - Got to jump around and sing like I was 14 for an hour and a half, cant beat it

3. Arcade Fire - Brilliant show, they all put everything into the performance

4. Weezer - Rivers was the best front man all weekend and the rest of the band were on form. I was blown away by them and the wheatus cover was a great touch

5. Frank Turner - Great crowd, franks a top fella and new songs sounded good (no ballad of me and my friends though )

6. Mumford - Energetic crowd, loved it

7. Limp Bizkit - they got all the hits and more to fulfill their slot

8. Gogol Bordello - Much love for gypsy punk

9. Cypress Hill - Not as good as when I saw them headline boardmasters last year but theres always a good time for some stoner hip hop

10. LCD Soundsystem - didnt really know much of their stuff but they put on a solid performance

[Stylo92]

Arcade Fire

Blink

GNR

QOTSA

Weezer Were the ones that really shone for me

Biffy Clyro

Cypress Hill

Limp Bizkit

The Libertines Were also very good.

Paramore were slightly disappointing (short set, Mic was very low) and so was Dizzee (short set again and was involved in a bottleneck between the speakers and the tower, not nice)

[gertcha]

1. Ash

2. Klaxons

3. Weezer

4. Libertines

5. We Are Scientists

6. Delphic

7. Maccabees

8. Mumford & Sons

9. Atari Teenage Riot

10. Kele

[Leocadius]

From what I watched.

01: Blink 182

02: Limp Bizkit

03: Paramore

04: Queens Of The Stone Age

05: Lostprophets

06: 3OH!3

07: Dizzee Rascal

08: Kidsinglasshouses

09: YouMeAtSix

10: Weezer