I was there for the whole weekend. It was great. I still kind of miss being there. But i can only look forward to the next one. Anyway. I saw most of the stuff i went to see. But obviously some bands play at the same time as each other. For example. I would have loved to have seen the manics. But they played at the same time as The Killers.
As for my favorite sets. I really liked Rage. But i was sure they would be great. Bloc Party were pretty good too. The whole speech about them splitting up was a little worrying. But we will see what happens. The Mystery Jets were awesome until they were stopped and sent off stage due to the bloody Ting Tings wanting to start on time! But the stagehands were barraged with missiles afterwards. So i felt a little better :p
Alexisonfire were good to watch. But i had not really heard much of them beforehand, so i didn't really know what to expect. Avenged Sevenfold were ok. But they finished after only 5 songs. (Vocal strains) but still.
CSS were terrific. I really enjoyed watching them. Although i was a little pissed off at the time with some of my mates. So i couldn't really express that i was enjoying it. For the sake of saving face!
I watched Feeder at the barrier with my mate Robbie. And they were amazing. They play at Leeds a lot and i thought they did a great job. The "get well soon" message they had written onto their drum skin for the plonker from Slipknot who broke his ankle was quite amusing.
I must admit i found it hilarious when this moron decided to try and climb to speaker tripod. He got halfway up. And people started chucking stuff! I hit him in the face with a half drunk bottle of coke. And i have to say i am quite proud! He came down when my mate Andy started shouting at him to show his cock!
The other funny part was winding my friend Lauren up about it. She and another person had been working for the Oxfam tent. Stewarding and such. I can't be bothered explaining it fully,because i don't know to be honest. But she got annoyed when we were laughing at it. Because she "was part of the team" HA!
Mettalica were awesome from what i saw. But i left towards the end to watch CSS.
I watched a comedian called Henry Rollins or something. He was American and he hated it! His whole act was basically slagging America off to us. Which is fine for picking up brownie points. But i didn't buy it. I also wanted to catch Mitch Benn, but i never got round to it.
There was banter all around though. There were 9 of us there all together. And every night had some kind of memorable event. We were wandering through the different camping area's at one point. And one of my mates just pushed another into a tent. As he got up..he felt someone''s face! he just legged it.
There is lots of other stuff i could put. More thoughts on other sets and such. But I'll see if this thread gets a lot of action before i do. But to sum up. I had a weekend that I'll remember forever. And heard some of my favorite bands at their best!