The Crowd.

[shoptildrop]

People talking through NIN/White Lies/Foals really cheesed me off. Every time Harry said something a guy in front of me made a sarcastic remark. I felt like saying "if you don't like it, fuck off". The crowd was dead for White Lies too.

[Areophobia]

I was gobsmacked how dead the crowd for White lies was at Leeds as they usually pull decent crowds everytime seen them before

[Andre91]

I found White Lies pretty dull tbh and I like them. The crowd was crap though, I will agree.

[Mouseboy11]

None of the crowds looked very wild from the screens, not at Foo's level last year anyway.

[pink_triangle]

I was right at the barrier for Biffy and was the only one in my vicinity who knew Questions and Answers. This made me sad (Also NME reported they didn't play that snippet at Leeds, as bad as NME usually is, this was pretty bad.)

Edited August 26, 2013 by pink_triangle

[lightning1000]

57 was the highlight of the set for me. Seeing that song played with pyro, lights, crowd going mental was really special. First time I saw that played live was in a dive in Leeds 13 years ago and it felt like the end of a really fucking long journey for them.

[Areophobia]

None of the crowds looked very wild from the screens, not at Foo's level last year anyway.

[lightning1000]

Bmth crowd wasn't tame. Neither was:

Deftones

Soad

Skrillex

Biffy (front and centre)

Everyone else I saw, you could get really close without even feeling crowded by people.

[Com Truise]

Best crowds I saw this year were mostly away from the main stage. SOADs crowd was amazing, Biffy's seemed amazing, but I couldn't really tell as I was on the barrier - everyone around me knew all the words though which was good. Eminem's crowd sounded great from where I was to, kind of middle-ish right, and in front of the barrier closest to the stage. Although Green Day's looked poor, as I was stood outside of it until they started Dookie.

Chance the Rapper, And So I Watch You From Afar, Hacktivist, FIDLAR and The 1975 all had insane crowds.

[kaosmark2]

Crowd fucked me off so much on mainstage Sunday. Right at the front for NIN and the people around me were sound, but one tosser threw a lit cigarette that burnt my ear. Another tosser threw piss which hit the girl next to me and splashed.

And then, during Biffy, absolutely noone else knew the words to Questions and Answers so they stopped playing that after two attempts at a singalong and went to Machines instead. Fucking w*nk.

Was ace in the Rock tent though. Didn't think anyone else would be singing along to nearly every one of Filter's songs! Good for SOAD as well, moshpits a bit tame but still plenty fun.

[Com Truise]

Crowd fucked me off so much on mainstage Sunday. Right at the front for NIN and the people around me were sound, but one tosser threw a lit cigarette that burnt my ear. Another tosser threw piss which hit the girl next to me and splashed.

And then, during Biffy, absolutely noone else knew the words to Questions and Answers so they stopped playing that after two attempts at a singalong and went to Machines instead. Fucking w*nk.

Was ace in the Rock tent though. Didn't think anyone else would be singing along to nearly every one of Filter's songs! Good for SOAD as well, moshpits a bit tame but still plenty fun.

[pink_triangle]

And yes, Editors, like White Lies, had a shocking crowd/response.

Edited August 26, 2013 by pink_triangle

[johnmcga]

Jake Bugg looks to have got a big crowd too. I wonder how Savages and BSP fared

[kaosmark2]

I think I got lucky at NIN and Biffy, I was right on the barrier, on the right, straight bit just before it curves so it was a great spot, and everyone around me knew all the words to the entire NIN and Biffy sets! They only played half of Q&A at Leeds too, I think it was intentional though?

[kaosmark2]

They did the same at Leeds, I guess that's the disadvantage of taking 4 albums to get commercial success. There cant be too many big bands who have waited that long in recent years. These days it seems your lucky to get a second chance if the debut doesn't sell well.

[pink_triangle]

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I don't think it was planned, just before starting Q&A he asked everyone to singalong, and then after 2 tries with the chorus not getting a major response he went "OK, can you sing to Machines then?" and played that. Ridiculously infuriating.

[Com Truise]

I was 3 from the barrier for NIN, but I've seen Biffy loads of times and needed a piss, so went off for one and then came back to just in front of the 2nd barrier.

I don't think it was planned, just before starting Q&A he asked everyone to singalong, and then after 2 tries with the chorus not getting a major response he went "OK, can you sing to Machines then?" and played that. Ridiculously infuriating.

[lightning1000]

They headlined glasto on the absolution album.

They also subbed r & l off their 2nd album.

Edited August 26, 2013 by lightning1000

[kaosmark2]

Pretty much word for word what happened in Leeds, so I suspect it was the plan for reading unless the crowd reacted significantly different.

[Areophobia]

While I agree kaos did Muse not headline Glasto in 2004 before BHAR?

But yeah its a similar comparison. I imagine if Muse began playing Muscle Museum noone would have a clue.

[lightning1000]

I think the black keys would be a better example.

[Com Truise]

Conflicting!

[pink_triangle]

I don't remember him saying anything along the lines of what you said, just like "here's a bit of something for you" played the first half of Q&A and then introduced Machines

[Dead throne]

While I agree kaos did Muse not headline Glasto in 2004 before BHAR?

But yeah its a similar comparison. I imagine if Muse began playing Muscle Museum noone would have a clue.

[Gucci Piggy]

Muse headlined the NME off the back of their first album, subbed the main stage off the back of their second and headlined Glastonbury and V off the back of their third. That's about as instant as any band's success.