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CONTENTS
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READING 2000 - THE FIELD OF DREAMS In the pages ahead is the story of Reading, how a group of Worcester teenagers entered the great Reading Festival, got very fucked and saw some of the greatest bands to ever grace the Earth, and subsequently went home and got more fucked. Here is our story... |
| Moggy's Story | |
| Galleries | |
| MP3 | |
| Band Links | |
| Streamed Video | |
| Biographies |
| Thursday 24th August 2000 |
A day of epic journeys, getting fucked and mexican bollocks |
| Friday 25th August 2000 |
The bands start! Highlights include Limp Bizkit, Foo Fighters and Oasis and poppers! |
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Pulp, Beck, Deftones and the "Vodka-Orange-Blowback-Spliff-Bong Of Death™" |
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| Sunday 27th August 2000 |
My favourite day, Daphne & Celeste (yeah!!!), Rage Against The Machine (the one and only!!!) & Slipknot (who i don't rate anyway.) |
THE LINE-UP
The line-up always looked good,
but it was to change during the summer months. During May & June there was
a lot of talk as to whether Eminem would make it to the festival, the fact he
had a court case pending meant he could not leave the U.S. there were times
when the british fans were assured he would be there and times when it was said
he could not make it.
It was also around this time a very very talented duo by the name of Daphne & Celeste were spreading shit in the hope of playing the great festival of Reading. They were telling all and sundry that they themselves were playing in Eminem's place and they had been requested, of course this was bullshit, not only did everyone hate them but they didn't even fit the bill of a rock festival. But for some unknown reason the Reading management succumbed to the pressure and allowed them to play. I have several theories for this, could it be that the management knew the fate the D&C would suffer at Reading or was it that they just couldn't be fucked to say no? Well either way I'm glad they booked Daphne and Celeste.
Not many other changes were made on the main stage but the smaller stage's line-ups changed a lot although I don't know exactly how much. Although the line-up was indeed excellent this year I feel it was pushed into the indie end of the rock spectrum and bands of high repute were made to suffer because of this. Soon I'll release my version of the line-up and how it should have looked, no prizes for guessing who should have headlined Sunday though.
Bands I saw (*)
Bands I saw a little (+)
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Friday 25 August |
Saturday 26 August |
Sunday 27 August |
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Main Stage |
Main
Stage Pulp * Beck * Gomez * Super Furry Animals Elastica The Deftones * Idlewild Gorky's Zygotic Mynci The Delgados Kent * |
Main
Stage Stereophonics * Placebo * Slipknot * Rage Against The Machine * Blink 182 Daphne & Celeste * A Supersuckers Cay My Vitriol |
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Evening Session Stage |
Evening
Session Stage |
Evening Session Stage |
| Dance
Tent Laurent Garnier Ken Ishii Rincerose Alpine Stars BT Dope Smugglaz Zan Lyons Arkana DJ Freddy Fresh |
Dance
Tent Black eyed Peas Slum Village Dirty Beatniks Junkie XL Saian Supa Crew Thomas Rusiak Touche (wiseguys) Swamp (Beck live dj) Runaways Creators |
Dance Tent Red Snapper Fila Brazilia Mint Royale Hooverphonic Jacknife Lee Lowfinger Manchild Sonic Animation Two lone Swordsmen Agent Sumo Psychonauts |
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Carling Premier Stage |
Carling Premier Stage |
Carling Premier Stage |