I like the Arctic Monkeys, so I'd go to Reading with my little sister if I had one.

same thing happened with Donnington.

and yes, I know they hold Download fest there now, but honestly, have you seen the line ups? they are terrible.


/you're better off going to Bloodstock

So what are they saying, it's not as if Metallica, Guns N Roses, and AC/DC can keep putting out music forever! It's not as if the two living guys from The Who can just get on stage and play their old shiat forever!

The stuff that British people like always baffles me - how is Kings Of Leon so big!? But there's the YYYs and Radiohead and Bloc Party and Vampire Weekend and Fall Out Boy and what else does this asshole writer think popular rock music is?

I also like the way they say "metal" about Funeral For A Friend (so they're "heavy" for modern post-hardcore standards, slightly more metalcore than Fall Out Boy) and The Deftones, who are your definitive alt-rock nu-metal crap-'90s band (is Chi still in a coma?).

And then I look at the lineup of this Download festival and hey, Faith No More headlining is great, but they've also got Korn and Limp Bizkit (this would've been really exciting to me in 5th grade), Slipknot and Marylin Manson (who both put on a good show tbqh), Def Leppard, ZZ Top, and Whitesnake (what farking year is this!?), Pendulum (elecbro-rock counts as rock music?) and The Prodigy (are at Leeds and Reading also, still suck).

also

The rock day in Leeds was a total noise fest - Slipknot and the Offspring topped off by a rare sighting of Guns N' Roses

I am going to see Merzbow and Prurient et al. at No Fun Fest, so I am really getting a kick out of this phrase.

Who the fark are Arctic Monkeys?

Reading. The Official Home of Rock?

I never knew that. In the early 90s, when I went, it was pretty varied.

New Order, Ride, Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana, Suede, Shonen Knife, BAD II so pretty 'Indie' and pop, as well as rock.

Hardly Rock infused. Me thinks writer is a lazy researcher.

I like the Arctic Monkeys, too. I was surprised to find them fresh and tuneful after the barrage of hype that accompanied their debut a couple years back.

The show sounds pretty good to me. /shrug

Wow!! Smitty nailed it!! When I think of "rock," I don't think of London, Manchester, Birmingham, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, or L.A...I think of Reading and Leeds!!!

Writer has done no research. Reading dropped the 'rock' part of the name in '89. The grouping together of the heavier bands on the bill is to help the sales of day-tickets. The comments are sad in TFA - bitter old farks who don't like people enjoying themselves.

El_Maestro: Who the fark are Arctic Monkeys?

Nice

Anyways, I like Arctic Monkeys. And Kings of Leon. And Bloc Party. But I also like Metallica and GnR and a lot of the other bands they put as examples of rock. Who says everyone's tastes have to fit in a neat little box?

FreakinB: Who says everyone's tastes have to fit in a neat little box?

The record industry, or what's left of it. It's harder to market to people like you with eclectic tastes.

I've been to Coachella a few times, but except for Kraftwerk one year, there's not been a lot that was really memorable for me, just bands doing their thing but from a mile away. Seeing The Pixies, where they didn't look at each other once and looked bored to farking tears was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen in concert. I'm also not a fan of bands with a lot of good songs doing 45 minute sets.

Henry Holland: FreakinB: Who says everyone's tastes have to fit in a neat little box?

The record industry, or what's left of it. It's harder to market to people like you with eclectic tastes.

I've been to Coachella a few times, but except for Kraftwerk one year, there's not been a lot that was really memorable for me, just bands doing their thing but from a mile away. Seeing The Pixies, where they didn't look at each other once and looked bored to farking tears was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen in concert. I'm also not a fan of bands with a lot of good songs doing 45 minute sets.

this. 45 minutes is just getting warmed up.