This year the weather could not be faulted, it was boiling all weekend and not a drop of rain! Unfortunately i don't have many photos from leeds fest, the ones on my digital camera accidentally got deleted a week later and i didn't take my SLR in fear of theft! So all i have is what was on my really old little film camera.
Musical highlights include the welcome come back of Smashing Pumpkins who were awesome, I wish they'd closed the whole festival as the Chili Peppers were absolutely horrific, having seen them before a few years ago when they were good, i was really disapointed to close the festival listening to a band who had no interest in playing a festival set (ie. including all the songs that most people have paid to see, trying to get people who don't know the band very well to like them, general crowd interaction and most of all looking like you are enjoying yourself) Too much pointless (and seemingly endless) jamming and a lack lustre performance from Anthony Kiedis who even managed to get the words wrong for one of their famous songs (by the way) BAH but anyway i've talked about them for too long, lets just say they were crap and the sound tech didn't help.
But back to the good stuff! Nine Inch Nails were fantastic as were The Shins, Biffy Clyro, Grammatics, Sky Larkin, Jimmy Eat World and the Living End. In the comedy tent Simon Amstell was good but the highlight has to be Tim Minchin, australian musical comedian, check him out on you tube he is fantastic not just as a comic but as a musician too!
Boo to Leeds Festival for cramming another 20,000 people in over the weekend without seemingly providing any more space or facilities, the campsites were rammed, no room to walk between tents (although people still insisted on putting out guy ropes IT WASN'T WINDY OR RAINY!!! put them away guys we're not camping up Kilimanjaro, and it took about half an hour to get from the comedy tent to the main stage especially if you were heading away from a popular act!
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