Muse at Wembley

11.9.10

Best gig I've ever been to! Everything about it was epic and ridiculous.

They came on with 'Uprising', but before they arrived on stage a whole load of 'protesters' came out to the crowd with banners and flags. When they walked on stage everyone went crazy, being at the front was insane. They played each song to perfection and used Wembley to put on an amazing show. For 'Undisclosed Desires' Dom and Chris came onto a small stage that moved into the crowd then finally up above our heads. Dom's drums were rigged so they came alight after he hit them, which looked amazing in the dark. They played an intro for a few minutes then Matt came back and joined them on the moving stage. I swear Matt looked at me, ha.

The most insane part was during 'Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1 (Overture)' when a huge 'UFO' came out and slowly crept around the arena. About half way through a woman dressed as an astronautic popped out and began spinning in air, it was really beautiful.

'Knights of Cydonia' was beyond epic. When the last riff kicked it everyone went completely nuts and a huge pit broke out. I think I started the pit I'm not sure!

Such an amazing gig, everything about it was ridiculous and we all loved every second, can't wait to see Muse again.

White Lies were good as usual, although Harry's voice did brake a lot and they played a surprising amount of new material, which was good, but not great for a Muse crowd.

Reading Festival 2010 - Friday

Me, Katie and Naomi went as first time campers this year. Getting there was fine, our biggest pain was getting up our tent. It took 8 people well over an hour to get the damn thing up. Once we got the tent sorted it started to rain, and that's where our troubles began! The mud began to get really bad but we stuck it out for a night, until our tent flooded so we made the decision to drive home every night. This was a bit of a nightmare but it was made worth it by the bands. We camped in purple where the rest of Chippenham holed up as well.

Friday -

* Frankie and the Heartstrings -

We'd never heard of them before, and I can see why! Did not enjoy their set at all. the lead singer was very annoying and slightly camp. The songs were all over the place and the set didn't flow very well.

* Young Guns (acoustic) -

We caught the end of their main stage set which was really good, then later on we caught them doing an acoustic set on the BBC introducing stage. They did a brilliant cover of Ellie Goulidngs 'The Writer'

* A Day to Remember -

Angsty band, which I enjoyed!

* Billy Talent -

Really good set and kept the crowd happy.

* The Big Pink
* Lostprophets -

For some reason Ian seemed pissed at the crowd and they in return didn't respond very well to their set. The songs were good, Ian's voice just isn't very strong.

* Biffy Clyro -

Loved this set, got a bit emotional when they played 'Many of Horror'....uni memories!

* Mumford and Sons -

Best band of the day. I've never seen the NME tent to rammed when it wasn't a headliner playing. The girls sat outside, but I couldn't resist and ran into the huge crowd. Fortunately I met some nice guys who looked after me during their set.

I should also mention we waited for Guns and Roses for over half an hour, then we gave up. I found out later they only bothered to come on stage an hour and a half late, not cool! When I watched them on the BBC coverage Axl Rose was just embarrassing.

Reading Festival

22/08/08

FRIDAY READING REVIEW!!!
awesome day.

Anti-Flag- Me: Ok, wasn't very impressed, they were more pop than punk if im honest. When they yelled political stuff at us it annoyed me. We get it you don't like Bush.
Jessie: I liked them, they were American..and punky

Get Cape.Wear cape.fly-good, we wern't really paying attention him as we were getting food XD

Blood Red Shoes- very good, inside the tent was fun :D

Dizzee- really fun, shame his stupid trousers were so low (PULL THEM UP!) i thought they'd fallen down at one point because they were so low, haha.

Jessie: ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo he was SIK BLUUUUUUUUUUUDDD

Fix up

Just a Rascal

Serj Tankian- not very good, his mic was too low and was very odd!

Jessie: he bored me, he was ok in an odd sort of way tho

Biffy Clyro- great, seen them once before. Great band and the set was good.

Jack Penate- aww jack i love him, he was brill and i really liked the new stuff he played. Digged his reggae style dancing :D Can't believe they ripped his shirt off!

Jessie: ahh he was gd, apart frm gettin crushed evry 5mins haha

Fratellis - we were waiting for the loo at this point! Im not a huge fan anyway.

Queens of The Stone Age - really really good, it was dark by this point so everyone was dancing and having a good time.

Jessie: ahhhhhh yessss tht was kllll wiv our druggy buddies

No one Knows

Rage Against The Machine - AMAZING, wow they were so good (shame we had leave early!) They came on in orange boiler suits and bags over their heads, good stuff - opened with Bombtrack then went into Testify. The atmosphere was great for Rage, only went a bit scary when we got crushed! Thankfully we had been with a group of guys that got us out alive!
It wasn't too crazy and most people were lovely, One of the guys we talked to did get pissed on! Ahaa it was quite funny but gross at the same time.

Jessie: yh the atmosphere was ELECTRIFYING haha

Bulls On Parade

Bulls on Parade 2

Testify

Opening/Bombtrack

Linkin Park at Nottingham

24/01/08

Yaaay! I was so excited to go to this gig. I went with Dad up to Nottingham, i was a bit worried our seats wouldn't be very good - but we could see everything!

Biffy Clyro came on first and were really good, i enjoyed their set and knew quite a few songs.

LP had a huge white 'kabooki' (i know thats not how you spell it, but i can't be bothered to find out) which casted their shadows all big and funky. They came on with 'What I've Done', in itself is an amazing song but not a really strong opening song in my opinion. Again i met some lovely people so we were dancing and singing together. I think my highlight was 'Bleed It Out', which surprised me because i wasen't a huge fan of that song before. Also 'A Place For My Head' was really exciting because they hadn't played that in a while - "you tried to take the best of me - GO AWAY!!!" ahh heaven. 'My December' was a nice surprise as well, Chester was incredible on that.