Biggest ever crowd at Reading and Leeds?

[Areophobia]

For the old timers, what has been the biggest crowd at Reading or Leeds? As someone who is usually within the front section, I can never tell crowd size. I have heard though that The Prodigy (09) was potentially the biggest? Any truth to this?

[mrtourette]

It's always hard to tell, but the build up to the Foos last year was the most congested I've known the main stage area to be (during the set I was in the middle so couldn't tell). When I left FNM in '09 I remember thinking the crowd for KOL was huge as well.

[Benj]

Foo Fighters last year or whenever they played before 2010??

RATM in 2009 was huge too

[mrtourette]

Foo Fighters last year or whenever they played before 2010??

[dip]

Queens/Rage and Prodigy/Arctics both felt scary busy.

[Simpo]

Chilis strikes me as one of the largest, most packed I've ever seen it. But yeah, Foos last year too.

[Benj]

Close, 2005

Edited August 16, 2013 by Benj

[Andre91]

Yeah, Foos last year at Leeds had a ridiculously big crowd, the biggest I've seen since I started going in 2010.

[Hart Attack]

Really they didn't play between 2005 and 2013??!!

Im sure they played circa 2009-2011

[adam1234]

Kings of Leon at Leeds 09 and pendulum 09, pendulum is the most packed I've seen the nme in 08 and Florence 09. Foo fighters last year was bug but I think kol and prodigy were bigger

[adam1234]

Oh yeah Libertines in 10 was big as well

[lightning1000]

Been going to Leeds since 00 and over both sites the biggest main stage crowd was definitely between kol 09, prodigy 09 and libertines in 10. Both the kooks and kasabian had bigger crowds on NME than pendulum.

[mrtourette]

Yeah I remember The Kooks in the tent at Reading, that crowd size was fucking mental.

[thewayiam]

Kings of Leon at Leeds 09 and pendulum 09, pendulum is the most packed I've seen the nme in 08 and Florence 09. Foo fighters last year was bug but I think kol and prodigy were bigger

[Yellow_Fellow]

Highest barrier pressure. Doesn't mean biggest crowd, suggests it though.

[lightning1000]

The kooks were the reason they decided to add screens outside the tent the following year. I didn't actually watch them but was trying to get past the crowd outside and it was mayhem.

[lightning1000]

I was in the crowd for mumford and sons, was nowhere near as big.there was plenty of room for walking about outside the tent at Leeds. Not sure on reading though

[she bangs the drums]

I've only been going to Leeds since 2007 but biggest main stage crowds I've seen are Prodigy and KOL. Biggest NME stage crowd was Pendulum in 2008 when they played in the middle of the day.

[Gravyshambles]

Green day should have had the biggest nme crowd, glad i got in before they blocked it off

[Areophobia]

Interesting about The Kooks - I was there at 2006 but not to see them. Friends who did though said it was dangerously packed and were told to take three steps back a number of times.

[Bisque]

Limp Bizkit in 2010 was massive

[Dead throne]

Enter Shikari, 2011?

[lightning1000]

Neither of those were that big at Leeds, especially lb. Ariived about 10 mins into there set and walked straight to the front barrier on the right side of the stage.

[Andre91]

I'm not saying it was the biggest by any stretch, but Paramore had an absolutely huge crowd in 2010.

[lightning1000]

Most of that crowd was there for blink though, nobody moved when paramore were finished and everyone around didn't appear to be a fan.