*** Leeds Festival Fanviews here 25/8/2006 ***

yellowmosquito

sliverstain wrote:

Then it was off to main stage. How fucking bad were the rest of the bands, SLayer, Placebo and Taking Back Sunday excepted? My Chemical ROmance?? Fuck right off. Less than Jake? Give me a break.

Ha. So true.
I just spent the day in the carling and dance tents thankfully avoiding all the musical mayhem on the main stage until Placebo, to edge forward.

I cant believe they dont play the UK more often.

DRS_PJ1

burtschips wrote:

was on the barrier with wash_, AMENt, Dave Brown and Duggro, infront of Mike with fifty thousand people behind !! crazy.... also, We got to the front after placebo and to my left was this tiny kid who was thirteen!! he has got big balls! He lasted half the set then had to be pulled out but again massive respect to him.

Did you see that guy going mental and start throwing punches? He got thrown out and was hailed with "wanker" signs by all!

DRS_PJ1

sliverstain wrote:

Then it was off to main stage. How fucking bad were the rest of the bands, SLayer, Placebo and Taking Back Sunday excepted? My Chemical ROmance?? Fuck right off. Less than Jake? Give me a break.

How could you leave out Bullet For My Valentine?! The worst. Utter turd. You're from Wales, not California, you fucking embarrassing twats!

Stinkfoot

sliverstain wrote:

Porch was my highlight. I went mad soon as I heard the slow opening, and got more than a few funny looks from the silly people around me who didnt find a copy of the 95 Red Rocks bootleg...Part timers, waddays know?!?!? Also got a few things shouted towards me when I gave the "BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM" salute.
"Why ya fuckin' booing?" A few called out. A quick evil glance around shut the dippy twats up.

Thats how I felt when every single person went mental around me during Even Flow and Alive....I was like.."where the fuck were you during Green Disease!!"

DRS_PJ1 wrote:

Did you see that guy going mental and start throwing punches? He got thrown out and was hailed with "wanker" signs by all!

See my earlier post (the guy was right behind me!)

Nothingman UK

sliverstain wrote:

anyone else think the place was a fucking tip? By 6pm we were ankle deep in food trays and beer cups. Hate to have been there for the weekend!

Too right - I was thinking the exact same thing whilst trying to find somewhere to sit down that wasnt covered in half eaten noodles (have these people never heard of putting their rubbish in the bin).

groovyf

The bins I saw were like mini-mountains of rubbish... More stacked on top than the size of the bin itself

Luckily we were right in front of the 2nd barrier, so had a backrest, and also somewhere clean to sit down whilst waiting for PJ

reaching hands

I haven't bought a copy of NME for donkeys, saw a carling weekend special, thinking, 'ahh, go on then, relive the weekend'

searched through the specials found a small piece on PJ, saying 'leeds was bored with pearl jam', saying the solos were too long and they were boring up until Alive.....i shouln't expect any more from this rag seeing as they lick the Arctic Monkey's pre-pubescent arses throughout the arcticle.

I thought, 'what a cop-out', didn't seem too boring where i was standing, i have never been so pshyced up through-out a whole gig as i was last friday night. Yeah, 'alive' was special but to just look at that song then say 'yeah, that made their set good' made me fucking angry.and the solo's, i thought this was a 'premier rock festival'?fuck me, just because they dared to play a proper solo....ahh its got me pissed off

so..NME you can take your Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Kooks etc and stick where you live...up your own arses

Kylix

Single greatest night of my life - granted, I've only just turned fifteen but still...

I was right near the front barrier, just off to the right of Eddie, almost dead centre and fuck me, was it intense. Now I'm not very tall and I'm a skinny runt so I could hardly breath for half of it and I kept getting my hair pulled out and stuff, but my God was it worth it. Got pulled out about half an hour before the end because my body just couldn't handle it anymore, so I went back round and got to about where I was before but just further back so I had more room.

The encore was mind-blowing, and I was *this* close to crying - I'd waited for years for this show and it did not disappoint.

I'd just like to thank Pearl Jam for inspiring me and making my life so much better.

P.S. I was the long haired kid with the brown truck PJ shirt over the brown stripey long sleeve shirt.

Mickyinuk

Top set and once again they didn't let me down. Spoke to some friends who did the whole weekend at Reading (they're not PJ fans really) and when i asked em their highlights they all gave me great pleasure saying "surprisingly Pearl Jam". Felt very proud and rightly so. Eddie was on fire as was Mike (great solos that could've gone on till the early hours) ans Matt was his normal fantastic self. Here's to 2012 when they'll probably come back!!!!

Danni C

Just read a review in the Yorkshire Evening Post.. not a bad review..rightly said "no - gimmicks rock - forget the trendies that suggest otherwise Pearl Jam still matter"" at least someone appreciates some band other than the f'ing Arctic Monkeys!!

ps - no mention of them (Yorks paper as well)

I am never going to buy the NME again.. I think we should all start a revolutuon against them and their 3 cord worshiping bands!!

(UK)_foxymop

sliverstain wrote:

Right. First, who ever designed the road maps for the directions to the event want shooting. I could have just got on the A1(M) and off at Branham Park instead of the around and through the council estates of Yorkshire route the Meanfiddler site gave us. Oh well!

But if we didn't follow the rules there'd be a severe tailback on the A1(M) :eek:
If you go next year turn off at the junction next to the festival as though you're going to Leeds city centre ... there's no right turn into the site but if you keep driving ahead, just over half a mile there's a burger van etc in a layby on the right .. turn into there, turn around and join the queue. Of course I don't agree you should do this and I definitely haven't done it myself several times

sliverstain wrote:

GLC were a lugh as usual. I love the White Stripes a smuch as PJ, but their cover of My Doorbell was a GLC classic...
Less than Jake? Give me a break.

Knew I should've gone to watch GLC!!.. so many people keep telling me they were a right laugh! :rolleyes:
Less Than Jake were fun!!!.. they're always good for early entertainment

sliverstain wrote:

Speaking of which, anyone else think the place was a fucking tip? By 6pm we were ankle deep in food trays and beer cups. Hate to have been there for the weekend!

Someone told me there's a limit to the number of bins because idiots think it's a laugh to set them on fire :rolleyes: There was a cleanup at the end of each day though, but it still wasn't good. There must be plenty of people on community service who could go round through the day picking litter. A suggestion for meanfiddler! Personally I have a bigger gripe than the rubbish .. I've come to hear some of my favourite bands .. I don't want overloud music from the fairground rides and stalls interfering. Completely unneccessary!




Now to Pearl Jam .. I've waited 6 years to see them and they were everything I had hoped for!! I had a great spot in the crowd.. infront of the right side speakers, a few rows back - it wasn't too tightly packed and the sound was fantastic. I love it when the bass thumps right through your body Everyone around me was singing (in time .. and the right words!!) and cheering. It felt so good to be surrounded by people who know and love the band as much as I do
Eddie's comments about trusting the crowd to look after each other was very touching, I'm sure it came from the heart. (But am I the only one to think his "Bush dream" was a little corny?? )
Total highlights for me were Not For You, Black and RITFW .. I just wish it didn't have to end .. did they really play for 2 hours :eek: :cool: :cool: :cool:

blow-up-the-outside

Leeds bootleg is up now go get it while its hot.

PJClover

Bootleg is ace! Brings it all back.

Fav bit

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in Given to Fly

"ran for hundreds of miles...to Leeds"

Hahahahaha

duggro

Man, opening with GO was the greatest choice ever

sounds amazing on the boot!

intense

duggro

crap, my bootleg download has crashed 3 songs in!

what do i dooooooo?!?!?

EDIT: panic averted

Irish Al

Duggro did I read somewhere that you n wash were staying in the Jury's Inn.....if so...shit so was I :(

Was in the bar afterwards....but very drunk

TheAnti-Santa

PJClover wrote:

Bootleg is ace! Brings it all back.

Fav bit

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in Given to Fly

"ran for hundreds of miles...to Leeds"

Hahahahaha

Its amazing what you miss, like "We'll even the score in world war four" at the start of Daughter. Speaking of Daughter, the It's OK tag is beautiful on this boot.

PJClover

TheAnti-Santa wrote:

Its amazing what you miss, like "We'll even the score in world war four" at the start of Daughter. Speaking of Daughter, the It's OK tag is beautiful on this boot.

That's so true, also in Daughter, instead of "the shades go down" he says "the sun goes down" and "the world goes round". Missed that at the show too!! Yeah It's OK was ace. So glad they played that tag.

groovyf

I particularly like the start of Porch

I cheered like a mad man when they started playing that slower intro

duggro

Irish Al wrote:

Duggro did I read somewhere that you n wash were staying in the Jury's Inn.....if so...shit so was I :(

Was in the bar afterwards....but very drunk

you meanin in leeds aye? cos i was in the jurys in dublin too

i still only met 6 board folk in total! i only had one drink in the bar afterwards as i was totally knackered

great time though:)