Am I getting old...

[Captain Frogarm]

...but there is a lot of bands around at the moment that are obscenely overrated in my opinion. I fully expect to get ripped into for this but I'm 27 now, and I simply don't seem to get half the bands around these days. Obviously this is just my opinion but -

Vampire Weekend - Really? What the f**k are they. I know they werent playing at Reading but bought the first album on a recommendation - Utter pretentious toss. So bad in fact that I can't believe that their fans even like them

Lost Prophets - I know they've been around for a while but I f**king hate them. Seen them twice now and cannot believe the reputation they command.

Pulled apart by horses - Saw them supporting Biffy last year. Just awful. A wall of noise with someone screeching over the top. The band even stopped playing to make everyone hi five each other. Seriously.

Parramore - The most lifeless sub headline performance I have ever seen. I was only there for Blink but is this really what the kids are listening to these days? Are they even a real band or did someone create them to make money?

All time low- I'm sorry I didn't know that angry McFly were playing at Reading this year.

Mumford and Sons - Oh look here is this years novelty band - see Franz Ferdinand, see Kaiser Chiefs.. - and he's playing a double bass!

Anything classed as RnB or Hip Hop - This can just f**k off

Just needed to get a few things off my chest. Maybe I'm just out of touch but it's a sad sign either way that I think the best band of the weekend behind Arcade Fire were Weezer. .. and Queens of the Stoneage.

I hate being old

FML

[Role Model]

The whole writing off of two huge genres R&B and Hip-Hop is just embarrassing, but hey ho.

By the sounds of it, Reading isn't for you anymore because this is the sort of stuff that sells at the moment, that's what makes up the majority of the line-up, it isn't changing anytime soon.

There is plenty of good new stuff out there obviously, but just like at many times in the past, less than great stuff gets adored by the masses.

[Leocadius]

"Parramore - The most lifeless sub headline performance I have ever seen. I was only there for Blink but is this really what the kids are listening to these days? Are they even a real band or did someone create them to make money?"

No offence but if you're going to talk absolute nonsense about one of the best bands that played the other weekend who had the entire crowd singing along at least have the decency to spell their name right. It's Paramore.

I wouldn't say you're too old, it's just that you're stuck in either the 90's or early 00's and can't appreciate that times change.

[Captain Frogarm]

"Parramore - The most lifeless sub headline performance I have ever seen. I was only there for Blink but is this really what the kids are listening to these days? Are they even a real band or did someone create them to make money?"

No offence but if you're going to talk absolute nonsense about one of the best bands that played the other weekend who had the entire crowd singing along at least have the decency to spell their name right. It's Paramore.

I wouldn't say you're too old, it's just that you're stuck in either the 90's or early 00's and can't appreciate that times change.

[Megahurtz400]

Im 18 and feel the same way tbh!

Mainly towards Mumford and Sons, literally cannot stand them at all, just yet another slice of boring-ness from the Indie cake that seems to be in fashion at the moment.

Everything in this "Indie" genre just sounds the same, and its listened to by pretentious students wearing the entire Jack Wills catalouge, urgh!

Vampire Weekend falls into the above, but I can listen to 1 or 2 songs

I dont mind a few Paramore songs, but dont drum them up to be as good as the 14 year old crowd at Reading does.

Lost Prophets, wouldnt say they are dreadful, but theyre definately not as good as people make them out to be.

Other bands there I just can tell that its going to be more "Indie" tripe.

However, I can see where you are coming from with Hip-Hop and RnB, the majority of stuff these days is just a cash-cow like XFactor.

However, Hip Hop/Rap/RnB from the oldern days (Before I was born i know! (NWA,Public Enemy, Cypress Hill etc. etc.) I can listen to easily and appreciate the artistic merit.

[Leocadius]

Where you watching the same band? maybe I couldn't see properly through all the ten year old girls sitting on each others shoulders. As for Reading not being for me? I had a ball. Maybe in 5 years time I'll be more at home at the green man but I'm hanging in there for now.

Plus I stand by my sweeping statements over Hip Hop and RnB.

I am just a horrible opinionated f**ker tho..

[lharris92]

I hate most new music, plainly because it is generic to what will give the band success. anyway dont stop going just because of them - theres plenty of stages so you can avoid it!

[Budweiser]

...but there is a lot of bands around at the moment that are obscenely overrated in my opinion. I fully expect to get ripped into for this but I'm 27 now, and I simply don't seem to get half the bands around these days. Obviously this is just my opinion but -

Vampire Weekend - Really? What the f**k are they. I know they werent playing at Reading but bought the first album on a recommendation - Utter pretentious toss. So bad in fact that I can't believe that their fans even like them

Lost Prophets - I know they've been around for a while but I f**king hate them. Seen them twice now and cannot believe the reputation they command.

Pulled apart by horses - Saw them supporting Biffy last year. Just awful. A wall of noise with someone screeching over the top. The band even stopped playing to make everyone hi five each other. Seriously.

Parramore - The most lifeless sub headline performance I have ever seen. I was only there for Blink but is this really what the kids are listening to these days? Are they even a real band or did someone create them to make money?

All time low- I'm sorry I didn't know that angry McFly were playing at Reading this year.

Mumford and Sons - Oh look here is this years novelty band - see Franz Ferdinand, see Kaiser Chiefs.. - and he's playing a double bass!

Anything classed as RnB or Hip Hop - This can just f**k off

Just needed to get a few things off my chest. Maybe I'm just out of touch but it's a sad sign either way that I think the best band of the weekend behind Arcade Fire were Weezer. .. and Queens of the Stoneage.

I hate being old

FML

[Budweiser]

No offence but if you're going to talk absolute nonsense about one of the best bands that played the other weekend who had the entire crowd singing along at least have the decency to spell their name right. It's Paramore.

I wouldn't say you're too old, it's just that you're stuck in either the 90's or early 00's and can't appreciate that times change.

[t8yman]

I have no problem with dismissing anything rnb or hip hop. Its shite. Particularly "RnB" RnB used to mean "rythym and blues" and was a genre populated by the likes of Rory Gallagher and Stevie Ray Vaughan. WTF happened?

I'm 40 next year BTW!

Edited September 10, 2010 by t8yman

[Messiah Jason]

Nah you're not too old, those are just all rubbish bands (apart from Pulled Apart By Horses, who are excellent ). It's surely nothing new though, wasn't there lots of equally rubbish bands say 10 years ago?

[MJMilz14]

Anything classed as RnB or Hip Hop - This can just f**k off

[Bradders]

There is good hip-hop around but it's taken me 20 years to realise.

But yeh, all those bands are rubbish apart from Vampire Weekend IMO. Good to have a dance round to in the sun. Dunno why you brought them up though, they weren't even on this year.

[adam1234]

You definately made some good points. Pulled Apart By Horses are class though. I usually quite like paramore but they were awful this year at Leeds

[Joe-]

Pulled Apart By Horses are awesome, saw them supporting Muse and they were great.

Vampire weekend are great and really fun to watch.

All the rest is pretty blah.

[kev1664]

"Parramore - The most lifeless sub headline performance I have ever seen. I was only there for Blink but is this really what the kids are listening to these days? Are they even a real band or did someone create them to make money?"

No offence but if you're going to talk absolute nonsense about one of the best bands that played the other weekend who had the entire crowd singing along at least have the decency to spell their name right. It's Paramore.

I wouldn't say you're too old, it's just that you're stuck in either the 90's or early 00's and can't appreciate that times change.

[kev1664]

I can only disagree with you pulled apart by horses statement, everything else you said is pretty much justified. All of the others you mentioned just seem to be making music to make money from trends that people are listening to, at least PABH are trying something a bit different I can undertsand why you wouldn't like it though.

[Electricityscape]

...but there is a lot of bands around at the moment that are obscenely overrated in my opinion. I fully expect to get ripped into for this but I'm 27 now, and I simply don't seem to get half the bands around these days. Obviously this is just my opinion but -

Vampire Weekend - Really? What the f**k are they. I know they werent playing at Reading but bought the first album on a recommendation - Utter pretentious toss. So bad in fact that I can't believe that their fans even like them

Lost Prophets - I know they've been around for a while but I f**king hate them. Seen them twice now and cannot believe the reputation they command.

Pulled apart by horses - Saw them supporting Biffy last year. Just awful. A wall of noise with someone screeching over the top. The band even stopped playing to make everyone hi five each other. Seriously.

Parramore - The most lifeless sub headline performance I have ever seen. I was only there for Blink but is this really what the kids are listening to these days? Are they even a real band or did someone create them to make money?

All time low- I'm sorry I didn't know that angry McFly were playing at Reading this year.

Mumford and Sons - Oh look here is this years novelty band - see Franz Ferdinand, see Kaiser Chiefs.. - and he's playing a double bass!

Anything classed as RnB or Hip Hop - This can just f**k off

Just needed to get a few things off my chest. Maybe I'm just out of touch but it's a sad sign either way that I think the best band of the weekend behind Arcade Fire were Weezer. .. and Queens of the Stoneage.

I hate being old

FML

[fuzzylogic]

Just needed to get a few things off my chest. Maybe I'm just out of touch but it's a sad sign either way that I think the best band of the weekend behind Arcade Fire were Weezer. .. and Queens of the Stoneage.

I hate being old

FML

[Captain Frogarm]

I'm just curious, but why is it a sad sign that Weezer were your second favourite band of the weekend?

I'd imagine after that performance they would have been in a lot of people's top acts of the weekend.

[Messiah Jason]

You should have seen Caribou instead of Paramore, they were excellent.

[fuzzylogic]

The reason that it is a sad state of affairs is that the most exciting and brilliant band of the weekend ( excluding arcade fire) were a band formed in 1992 who haven’t touched the mainstream in years and who at least thirty percent of the Reading audience thought were a different band. That’s why.

It made me sick seeing Paramore as second headliner. It was just dross. Boring boring dross. With no personality, charm or excitement.

I sound like I’m slating all the music at Reading – which I’m not. I’m just saying that a lot of new bands coming through lack any originality or edge.

Best bands of the weekend IMHO?

Arcade Fire, Weezer, Blink, QOTSA, Biffy, Libertines – All of who, with the exception of Arcade Fire are old bands. Bands that I love. But old bands all the same.

It’s not all doom and gloom for the kiddies tho – I think Gaslight Anthem are ace (Even if they sound suspiciously like early Springsteen) and was pleasantly surprised by the King Blues.

Other notables include – Alkaline Trio who we ended up watching after abandoning GnR after three songs and was pleasantly surprised by.

I f**king loved my weekend at Reading and saw loads of quality bands. Just would have been nice to see some new bands who didn’t simply remind me of every other manufactured piece of toss that is spoon fed to the masses by Edith f**king Bowman and friends.

Edited September 10, 2010 by fuzzylogic

[stylishkids]

Maybe you are getting old, which is not necessarily a bad thing, it happens to everyone. But I am even older and there were plenty of 'new' Bands that I loved. Off the top of my head there was Los Campesinos, The Joy Formidable, Kele, Frank Turner, Band of Skulls, Wild Beasts, Caribou, Phoenix. As well as ones that have been around for a good few years but are not exactly 'old' bands like LCD Sound System, Eddie Argos, Adam Green, Futureheads. Plus bands I wanted to see that I didn't due to clashes such as Darwin Deez, Foxy Shazam, Local Natives, Tame Impala.

And those are just off the top of my head. So there are still plenty of good modern bands out there...it's just they are usually not on the main stage.

[fuzzylogic]

Frank Turner and Phoenix are hardly new...

Edited September 10, 2010 by fuzzylogic

[rexclark]

I'm 28 and I find alot the line up is not to my taste, The majority of acts I watched this year were acts I'd been into for at least five years. It doesn't bother me, there is always acts to see and i do quite enjoy some of the new music but I definately think the festival needs a good mix of old and new like it did this year.