Funniest thing you've seen/heard at Leeds/Reading

[swede]

I have two from Leeds...

One was in 2007, the "CHEESE TENT" guy who invaded the main stage during Lost Prophets set.

In 2008 there was this one young lad who our group kept spotting. As I was getting shown were my camp was (I arrived on the Thursday/friends the Wednesday) there was this lad with long blonde hair getting carried through the camp on a chair by his friends cheering loudly. About an hour later on a trip to the long drops he was stood outside the long drops looking like he was tripping his tits off, covered head to toe in mud apart from his eyes, slinging mud at his mates. On the way back from the arena on the Friday we saw the same lad laid out cold outside a stall with puke flowing from his mouth like someone had turned on a tap. About 2 hours later at one of the campsite djs he was back up on his chair being held above the crowd raving his tits off, what a legend !

This year I want some of what he had !

Edited April 6, 2011 by swede

[mrtourette]

Games of 'Broom' in the arena.

[ivan]

Years back at Temple Newsome a mate got hammered on Vodka , had no idea how to get back to the tent.

He wanted us to come and look for him , but we were going nowhere when all he could come up with was

"I am by a fence ! "

five minutes later

"I am stood next to an ice cream van near some portaloo's ! "

[swede]

Games of 'Broom' in the arena.

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

My mate walking through the campsite with one of those plastic lightsabre things just swinging it around, walking towards a group of 8 or so guys, all of a sudden each one of them pulls out their own sabre and chase my mate back through the camp site. It was if it had been scripted

Edit: Lightsabre is not a euphemism

Edited April 6, 2011 by Chavmeisterdeluxe

[mrtourette]

Whats Broom. Ive played sheep penning people in the arena before but not broom ?

[**shandy**]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-O3TBkiyHI

This guy took like 15 attempts to get up this hill one morning at Leeds 08. Hence why everyone was cheering him on and virtually everyone around was focusing their attention on him.

He managed to get up in the end, happy ending

[Englishdragon]

Erm

In the campsite the most bizzare thing by a mile - 2005 - Friday night - About 2 in the morning only about 5 of the 15 or so of us left up and a man in a dress walks into our site. He asks for a beer and we sit and chat for 10, then he turns to my friend and says "hey what was the name of the guy from boyzone?" my friends replies "Stephen Gately???" to which he jumps up screams "YOU SAID THE SACRED NAMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" rugby tackles my friend to the floor and runs away screaming. I honestly thought I was tripping.

In the arena - 2005 again - Queens of the stoneage - halfway through the set I look up to find a guy crowd surfing, in a dinghy, with oars and he manages to stay in the air crowd surfing for the entire set.

My mate had a story from just before rage in 08. a guy and his gf stood next to him in the crowd, guys pretty drunk and decides to piss in a cup to his gf annoyance. Hes just about to throw it when his gf starts having a go at him about it. He decideds to throw it anyway but at the same time his gf puts her hand up to stop him, hits the cup and gets covered head to toe in her bf piss. She walks off furious with him, the guy turns to my mate and says "huh shit happens", and stays to watch the whole of rage. Brilliant

Edited April 6, 2011 by Leeds_Brett

[Banana Co]

In reading 09 I heard one guy say to his mate 'well, you've just got to piss in her f**king eye if she bites you again.

Also in 09 after Arcade Fire I saw this guy run into these bins outside the arena entrance by green campsite, he flipped over onto the floor, got up and started to scream at the bins 'that was all your fault'

[allan14]

reading last year i saw a guy pissing on the fence near the main stage .. right where there was a one way door for the security.. when a security guy opens it and gets pissed on

[ar1]

How long before someone says "I was walking past a tent and I heard a young lad say "so I stuck it in her backside.....""?

Funniest one I heard was whilst waiting by one of the food stalls a posh teenage girl yells "Guys, Guys, Guys, wait up Giselle is buying a crepe" - Reading's moved on somewhat since I first went 15 years ago..........

[Buko]

Weirdest thing I've ever seen is a guy came up to our camp and asked us for swimming lessons we then asked him why he needed them and he replied "well, there's a sea of people down there and I can't swim so I can't go any further and there's a f**king bear behind me so what else can I do"

Edited April 6, 2011 by Buko

[Buko]

Sorry double post, my app keeps playing up.

Edited April 6, 2011 by Buko

[harderfaster]

My mate had a story from just before rage in 08. a guy and his gf stood next to him in the crowd, guys pretty drunk and decides to piss in a cup to his gf annoyance. Hes just about to throw it when his gf starts having a go at him about it. He decideds to throw it anyway but at the same time his gf puts her hand up to stop him, hits the cup and gets covered head to toe in her bf piss. She walks off furious with him, the guy turns to my mate and says "huh shit happens", and stays to watch the whole of rage. Brilliant

[YumYum]

In 2009, on the Thursday, started walking from where we was camped in Orange past the fun-fair and some bloke ran up to another man pulling all his stuff in a wheelie bing shouting 'STOP, STOP!!!' the man stopped looking so confused, everyone turned round watching what was happening.

The fella then lifted the lid on the wheelie bin, then shut it looking disappointed and went 'Sorry mate, i'm just looking for Maddy McCann' then he casually strolled off.

[jonwl89]

My first year at Leeds in 09, we went earlybird and camped up around about midday. We sat had a wander round, sat down and drank till it started getting cold so at about 7ish headed off to get firewood, everything seemed pretty normal and was almost disappointed that Leeds hadn't lived up to my expectations. It was at this point that a man walked past me wearing nothing but a glow in the dark G-String made of glow sticks (I'm not sure if tape was used or if he had some triple sided fasteners or what) with a single glowstick pushing past said G-String and protruding from his arse.

[The Mean Bean]

Watching the security gleefully throwing over the fence all the suitcases, tents, clothes, beer, camping stoves, sleeping bags, basically all the possessions of a group of chav kids they'd just kicked out. I had already moved in and taken all the good T shirts, a crate of Newcastle Brown and a lovely parka so I just let it happen. Pretty sure they aren't supposed to do that, but then again chav kids aren't supposed to headbutt folk so it's swings and roundabouts really.

[FiestaDave]

I had already moved in and taken all the good T shirts, a crate of Newcastle Brown and a lovely parka so I just let it happen.

[kibble]

Thought the crowdsurfing guy in the wheelchair was great last year during Gallows.

[FiestaDave]

Thought the crowdsurfing guy in the wheelchair was great last year during Gallows.

[Electricityscape]

Barrel Boy was pretty funny, until we all thought he'd killed himself...

But anyway, we also saw a Peter Griffin V The Chicken fight, well the guy had chicken dippers strapped to his head...

It was pretty special.

[Captain Frogarm]

Watching a young lad leaning against a tree at about 10.30 on Friday morning at Reading 2010. He then doubled over and projectile vomited into his own wellies.

[mb23]

Reading 2010, three guys came over to our camp, and offered us cider and marshmallow, very kind...

Anyway I digress. One of them decides to put a bucket we used for being sick in over his head, and another of them thought it would be a good idea to punch him. So he did. Unfortunately for the puncher, instead of making his victim fall over after the blow to the face, he fell over himself, leaving his friend still standing with a bucket over his head.

Another funny story was in Reading '09, a guy camping near us decided throughout the weekend to stretch his jogging bottoms so they went over his shoulders, making it seem as if he had two long legs and no arms if you understand. He then ran around screaming 'I'M TROUSERS, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN' and ran around the campsite for about 5 minutes a time. On the last night I was trying to get a bit of sleep and I went into my tent. All three of my friends were in there already asleep and i was about to get into my sleeping bag until a felt a human shaped lump in it. I whispered 'who the hell are you?' and out came 'Trousers'. Really very scary, but pretty hilarious.

The best thing about all of these stories are that you just accept them because they happen at Reading/Leeds. I still talk about random things that happened two years ago today, some things just seem too strange to be true!

[Rudzkii]

A friend of mine got so wasted last year that he was taking a piss in to a cup leaning against a wall before weezer came on, missed the cup and it went straight in to some poor girls wellies! Safe to say he got a slap!

[StoneyTheStag]

Last year in Red camp at Leeds there was the bloke who did something genius but I'm not sure how he managed it. Basically he had a small one-man pop up tent but had cut 5 holes in the bottom of it, two for his legs, two for his arms and one for his face. He was laying down in the tent so his face was literally in the grass and it looked like a normal tent and just blended it. Then every now and again he'd just jump up and start chasing people

It scared the shit out of em too!