Highlights from Reading and Leeds Festival
The Reading and Leeds festival is over for another year and amongst all the mud and rain there was some good and bad highlights which the punters will take away with them.
The main talking point came on the opening night (Friday) when Guns N’ Roses had the plug pulled on them.
The rule breaking band decided to fashionably turn up late at their headline gig at Reading.
When the band finally turned up at 22:30 (an hour late) they where told they would only be given a half hour extension for the lost time. Did Axl Rose and his band mates listen?… of course not, the music went on until mid night the plug was finally pulled. After it was pulled Axl and co sat down on the stage to protest.
The band have showed their frustration on Twitter, each posting some kind of angry statement regarding the situation. Ashba posted the lengthiest message which read “apparently the promoter has had a personal grudge with GN’R stemming from eight years ago, if this was the case why book the band? He knows our show. Let me guess… to take our fans money and not allow us to give them a show”.
The plug was pulled again over the weekend, it was whilst the Libertines played their comeback gig. However this time it wasn’t the bands fault, the stop came because some of the fans towards the front where being crushed.
The rock and roll band where stopped midway through one of their most well known songs and told by roadies that they had to leave the stage. Carl Barat (lead singer) told fans “Some people are getting crushed down the front. Can you move back a little bit?”
After a short break the English band came back out and finished off their set ending with huge cheers from the 80 000 crowd when Barat and Pete Doherty hugged.
