Legendary moments at Reading/Leeds

[Sparticus]

Arctic monkeys 2005 was one of those moments, a band gaining hype on the verge of becoming the biggest act in the country.

Faith no more 2009, played a storming set to an empty tent.

[alex28]

Brian fucking May coming on with MCR, now that was rad. GnR playing after being unplugged was cringey.

[PDAD]

It's all about Shannon Wild.

[chezzer]

Weezer in 2010 a legendary set!

[Areophobia]

Quite a few had to be pulled up onto the food vans by the vendors as the were getting crushed. There was that awful crowd swaying even really far back and at one point about 200-300 people all went down at the far side of stage, the worst I've ever seen. It was pretty scary actually.

[lharris92]

• Weezer's performance in 2010
• 'Fuck the Kings of Leon' at every Billy Talent set since 2009

[Matt42]

It's all about Shannon Wild.

[rug568]

The thing with the Shannon wild thing was that, although funny, something really shit had obviously happened to her family.

[jordanuk90]

Wasn't she in a few national newspapers? Old poo girl

[Areophobia]

Poo Girl - who could forget that!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2621557/Meet-girl-who-got-stuck-in-toilet-at-the-Leeds-Festival.html

[mrtourette]

Everyone pissing around in front of the BBC camera during Twin Atlantic last year.

[Bisque]

Apparently there were huge mosh pits & a wall of death when Plain White T's played Hey There Delilah on the main stage one year.

[kittycat100]

Hmm, for me it would have to be:

All of the Foos last year!

Green Day trashing their kit and setting fire to it having refused to stop playing in 2001

All of The Streets in 2011

Brian May with MCR

GD secret gig - hardly saw any of it, but the atmosphere was brilliant

Crowd surfing during Ash in 2002 (I am not a crowd surfing kind of gal, but that was awesome)

I'm sure there must have been many many more moments in my 12 years of going, but can't think of the right now!

The reverse crush between system and Metallica in '03 (I think) was insane! legendary but not in a good way!

[thetime]

Green Day trashing their kit and setting fire to it

Edited April 10, 2013 by thetime

[kittycat100]

That was v wasnt it?

[Spud001]

Yeah that was pretty funny, and the sitting-on-shoulders fight/moshpit during PABH. Also the woodchip free-for-all during Futureheads in 2011.

[thetime]

They may have done it there, but I've never been so I definitely didn't see it there!

It was Reading in '01

[Areophobia]

A couple more - the singer from Panic At The Disco getting bottled at Reading (?) in '06.

50 Cent being bottled off in '04 causing a massive riot afterwards (huge wait till Green Day so I heard).

[mrtourette]

A couple more - the singer from Panic At The Disco getting bottled at Reading (?) in '06.

50 Cent being bottled off in '04 causing a massive riot afterwards (huge wait till Green Day so I heard).

[Asdaprice]

Apparently there were huge mosh pits & a wall of death when Plain White T's played Hey There Delilah on the main stage one year.

[2rare2die]

They may have done it there, but I've never been so I definitely didn't see it there!

It was Reading in '01

[Areophobia]

I don't remember there being a riot, and Green Day came on early to make up for 50 Cent leaving early. While bottling is never cool, the commitment and ingenuity applied to getting rid of him asap was impressive.

[2rare2die]

Hang on I may be getting my years mixed up - I wasn't there, but I remember a topic a few years back on here stating how some of the rioting at Leeds that year began because of the events that year. Could be wrong like!

[Areophobia]

Hmm yeah I must have got this wrong.

I was just thinking it was something like:

50 Cent bottled off

Long wait till Green Day (who came on earlier)

Disaffection and dehydration of crowd

Rioting

Might have been at Leeds but again I've probably got it wrong!

Speaking of rioting has it got better? When I went to Reading in 2010 there was none from what I saw, unlike Leeds 06 and 09...

[lightning1000]

04 was a really quiet year.

02 & 03 were bad, especially 03, it forced a change of venue.

05 was horrible, I was by orange fairground which was the epicentre. Huge fire with people throwing gas canisters into. Then the riot police showed up and were very heavy handed and things escalated ridiculously quick. People raiding all the stalls and vans with beer in them, tents etc. Luckily was in guest camping so got one of the staff to let us up the path behind traders ally and all the way around the arena to behind the main stage. (Happened to see Pete Doherty headbutt johnny borrell haha).

Monday morning looked like a warzone, then all the stories came out about police having lines of people on their knees in handcuffs just letting them piss themselves etc whilst detained. Im surprised they got their licensed renewed in 06.