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!

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.

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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.

The first and last time I went to the Reading Festival was in 2006 with Rozie just for one day, I liked it but in terms of organisation, layout and campsite safety its not a patch on Download. However since the Download Festival lineup absolutely sucked this year and no-one really went; I’m so up for Reading Festival this year and a fair few of my mates are going too which should be excellant.

Managed to procure tasty Mish-Mash a ticket yesterday so I have some-one to camp with. Campsite safety doesnt bother me as I do not intend to take anything of any value what-so-ever and I intend to be so absolutely fucked most of the time that matters of organisation will not even come into it.

Check out the AWESOME line up at Reading Festival 2008:

For updates to the line up and general Reading Festival information check out www.readingfestival.com 

My Must See Bands at Reading Festival 2008:

Friday
Less Than Jake
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Taking Back Sunday
Dizzee Rascal
Serj Tankian
Biffy Clyro (’mon the Biff!)
The Enemy
Rage Against The Machine

Saturday
Flogging Molly
Thrice
Gallows
MxPx
Bullet For My Valentine (6th time)
The Killers

Sunday
Lethal Bizzle
Hadouken!
Pendulum
Mindless Self Indulgence
Alexisonfire
Avenged Sevenfold
SlipKnot (4th time)
Tenacious D
Metallica (5th time)

What about you guys? I know some of you are on the fence about tickets/days/bands or going at all…