Every year over the August Bank Holiday weekend (long weekend) the Reading Festival takes place in Reading, where I live. The Festival is very similar to the UK's Glastonbury Festival, the USA's Woodstock Festival and dare I say SA's Oppikoppi.
It's a music festival attracting (a record this year) of 80,000 people, some which camp on-site for 4 days. The bands playing are normally up and coming rock bands, with a few main acts. This year famous names included the Manic Street Preachers, The Ting Tings, The Fratellis, Metalicca and The Killers.
The festival organisers stay at our hotel, which is right next to the site. As I arranged all their accommodation, I managed to get 2 free tickets for the Saturday, when The Killers played.
Willie and I went in around 13h00, and spent the day with some of his colleagues who also attended. We had a nice spot near the Main stage (there are about 6 stages) and did loads of people watching. With it being a Rock Festival, there is a fair amount of "interesting characters" milling about.
At around 21h00 we made our way forward to get a good standing spot for The Killers, who played at 22h00. It was amazing!!!!!! I was a very big fan of their music before seeing them live, but now I am a devoted fan! A fantastic live show - they played all their hits and ended the show with some fireworks from the stage, and all these little white pieces of paper raining down. Click here for videos:
Look at how dumb-struck the Lead singer is at the end.....
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