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It took me 3 hours to make and upload this video of the amazing time I had at Reading Festival 2008 and it was good; until YouTube mangled the fuck out of it and made it all blurry. A shame, cos I had some really good footage of the HADOUKEN!, Black Tide and Bring Me The Horizon pits.

Bring Me The Horizon did brilliantly for a band who were booked last minute to replace SlipKnot, Black Tide were incredible and HADOUKEN!, well… HADOUKEN! ruled!

The phrase butt scratcher was endlessly bounced around Reading Festival 2008. This is reference to Family Guy’s 5th season episode ‘No Chris Left Behind‘ in which Peter takes on a second job selling butt scratchers at baseball games.

Butt Scratcher!

I reckon this year’s Reading Festival is going to absolutely rule!

The line up is devastatingly heavy with some good mainstream acts as well; not that they interest me too much.

My must see bands at Reading Festival 2008 are:
SlipKnot, Rage, Lethal Bizzle, Black Tide, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Gallows, Dizzee Rascal, Pendulum, Biffy Clyro, Flogging Molly and Thrice.

This line up listing below was pulled directly from Wikipedia so I assume its accurate; but I make not guarantees. All links go to Wikipedia.

Here’s the line up for Reading Festival 2008.

Reading Festival - Main Stage Line Up

Reading Festival - Radio 1/NME Stage Line Up

Reading Festival - Festival Republic Stage Line Up

Reading Festival - The Dance Arena Line Up

Reading Festival - Radio 1 Lock-Up Stage Line Up

The line up at Reading 2008 is awesome, I really cant wait! I hope I can remember at least some of Reading 2008 - I intend to spend the entire festival utterly hammered.

So, what are your MUST SEE bands?

Another amazing freebie courtesy of Mish; tonight I saw InMe and Pendulum at Koko; part of the iTunes festival.

I havent heard the name InMe for years, they got big around 2002 but after that I had just assumed they’d fizzled out; I was never a fan at all. But tonight InMe were tight, they had passion and they were great to watch. InMe really impressed me.

The crowd at the Koko was alot older this time and as such it wasnt too hard to get a good mosh-pit going from the outset.

However, the crowning glory was seeing Pendulum. I’ve previously been told that Pendulum often play live with simply the DJ, tonight however the entire bad were there and they put on a fantastic show. I heard a few minor errors from time to time, but generally very tight and the light show was wicked.

Once again I took on the role of Mosh-Pit General and kicked off proceedings, with some excellant guys and girls in the pit, we had a great time. Somehow we managed to organise a Girls Only Mosh-Pit during Pendulum, the perimeter of which was maintained by a ring of guys drooling over the sight of a dozen girls fighting with each other. Genius.

I don’t know any of these people, but they are all legends.
Are you in this photo?

So, did you guys enjoy it?

Global Gathering 2008 was absolutely awesome; we had an amazing time.

My highlights of Global Gathering 2008 were seeing Tiësto, Kanye West, Davd Guetta, Lisa Lashes, Armin Van Buuren and ATB.

I’ve posted some Global Gathering photos up already but I have dozens more to do.

• Global Gathering | Flickr

I met a lovely girl on the Friday night called Emily, from Stafford. But I lost Emily in the crowd and we were getting on well. So if you know Emily from Stafford or her mates Tash and James (also from Stafford), please get in touch, would be great to here from you.