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Post by ChildOfTheAlbion on Aug 23, 2004 17:44:35 GMT -5
haha
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Post by HadriansGirl on Aug 28, 2004 18:24:46 GMT -5
hey child of the albion, hope u have had a gud time at leeds, email me when u get bk to let me know how good it all was and to fill me in everything that happened. Defo gonna go next year, will be more organised.
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Post by spinawebofsound on Aug 30, 2004 12:10:49 GMT -5
i went on the sunday, libertines were amazin! surprised with how good razorlight were! i thinik everyone had such a good laugh at night with all the huge explosions.
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Post by ChildOfTheAlbion on Aug 30, 2004 15:23:15 GMT -5
I was right at the front for the libs, which me and a lot of people recon was more violent then Green Day/ Dropkick Murphys/ The Offspring.
Surprisingly, The Hives were actually one of the most, if not THE most violent set!
Right so anyway, the topic at hand. Got right to the front for Franz and got slowly shoved back by the crowd, which was actually quite good, cuz down at the front you couldnt breath and i was really really tired, so shoving all those bodies away from me wasnt fun. The crowd only started to pan out into more space about 10 meters away from the stage. After Franz, I gave my absolute all and managed to get further forward, which was allright, just that everyone else was trying to get forward too, for the next half an hour! I was stood next to some geordie guy who was a complete twat, (note Geordie's are not twats, just he was) he asked me... "So I guess that Pete Duffy isnt comming then" "What?!" I said "You know that Pete Duffy, the one they were talkin boot earlier doon t' front o' the stage." " Pete who?!!" I said "Aw fook, ye donnay nottin aboot the Libertines, why the fook are you here, stood infront of me, and all these other Libertines fans, we wanna see him and you don' even give a shite!" A long nosed bloke leaned across me and proceded to explain that Pete had been out of the band for about 3 months and that he had tried to get into reading, but there was tonnes of secrity there to stop him. The long nosed fella then turned back to me and gave me evils, to which I flashed my knuckles at him, which had " I (heart) Pete" on them. He then looked confused and i said "Sorry, I didnt know Pete DUFFY was a member of the Libertines!" He laughed. When they came out everyone went mental, more mental then any other band, not the Darkness, not Green Day (Shudder), only Morriseys chears beat them. Played up the bracket and immediately a circle pit opened behind us, and everyone was jumping around going crazy, screaming the lyrics and everything was going beatifully until... people started to crowd surf. Pockets of 60-70 people, sqashed at the front, all ages, all sizes were falling over into heaps, whilest people tried to stop the surrounding crowd from dancing and tried to help people up. Ive been at the front of loads of things where people have fallen over, but never to this extent. This was the first time ive ever been scared when falling over, cuz when you go down and you see the look of fear and panic in grown mens eyes, you know somethings up. The weight of 70 people on your legs wasnt paricularly pleasent either, which wasnt helped by the fact that usually when people fall over, everyone rushes in to help them up, but at the libs people were actually moving away from the anyone on the ground and you had to shout at people to get them to help you. Then after falling over a few times the crowd moved me further toward the back where it was slightly more mellow, still pretty hard to get any room to breath, especially as i was knackered. I was then promptly booted in the face by a crowd surfer, blood poored out of my nose and i got a mouth full of gritty mud. I got a cut of my arm from, I think it was a badge or a zip of something, which i forgot to clean later and has now gone green. After this we got moved slowly further back and finally got out of the really packed places, in time to dance and watch the last 4 songs with a good view and scream FUCK 'EM at I Get Along, which was incredible because everone who didnt know the song looked so upset at the fact they hadnt been able to join in the mass shouting of profanitys.
Injuries asside, this was the first time ive seen the libs and it wont be the last, musically, they were incredible, but you could see how unhappy Carl looked, nearly as if he was about to cry. The passion of the crowd was amazing too, from people shouting "Carlos Carlos Carlos" to " Where's Pete!" I also started the Lib-er-tines lib-er-tines lib-er-tines, lib-er-tines lib-er-tines lib-er-teeeens chant at the end, so if you heard that, that was me ;D
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Post by ChildOfTheAlbion on Aug 30, 2004 15:43:28 GMT -5
Amongst other things, yes blowing up canisters was class, we also burnt our tent this morining, along with some canisters, all of our rubbish and an umbrella I knicked. People left behind speakers and cd players which still worked as well, who just couldnt be arsed to carry them, so they went on the fire which was quite scary when we thought everything that could explode on the fire had exploded, but we hadnt counted ont there being batteries in the cd player. The person giving her passed out boyfriend a blowjob in the middle of the path was also quite entertaining, especially when the security which we effectionally named G-Unit came to break it up, but when he got to the front of the crowd of people he just stood there for 10 minutes watching, only stopping it when she took her thong off to try and shag him! When we took the elastic out of my boxers and lauched buring beer cans aroung the campiste with it. The guy who got naked and rolled around it the mud, who then got arrested, his wristband snapped, and kicked out, and managed to get back in by digging under the fence with a stick! The Bagpiper, who we all folowed and sung along to what he played, who then got arrested by the G-Unit, prompting about 600 people to chase after the van he was put into, trying to start a riot. Rolling people down the huge hill in the oil drums used for bins was also great fun, as was the unlucky guy who tried to do it in a shopping trolly (which came from where ?!!) and got totally fucked up when it toppled over at the end. Fair play to the people selling hits of laughing gas for 2 quid a balloon, cuz that shit did nothing and they must have been making a fortune. The Chinese lads, who were actually french who ran naked around the camp, shouting BOLLOCKS, the only English they knew! The people teaching us the "mustard dance", we owe you one, its quality! If anyone found any beer mssing, especially the tent we knicked 2 crates from outside of, I dont appologise, you were cunts anyway, and im sure you pissed on our tent.
And finally, if you saw 8 lads running round the campsite, surrounding people, and then singing 3 lines from this really weird audiobullys song (dont worry i dont like them, its just a fucked up spooky song) in an echoey, barbershop quartet mannor, trying to feak the people who were doing mushies out as much as possible, that was us!
baring in mind thats only what happened where we were camped, so im sure there are many more stories I didnt see...
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Post by [Gin In Teacups] on Aug 30, 2004 15:49:39 GMT -5
Weeeeeeeeeeell reading that was like rubbing salt in a wound. Oh how jealous it made me. Sounds like it was fab though. Glad you had fun.
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Post by HadriansGirl on Oct 15, 2006 19:25:34 GMT -5
hey can anyome remeber this thread, brings bk memories!!! over 2 years ago now!!!
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