Reading Festival 2015
Photo by Tom M
Over the years Reading Festival has changed quite
dramatically. As I look out across Richfield Avenue,
an arena filled with flower headbands and neon
face-paints on fresh young faces. This is a sight i’m
not surprised to see with this year’s diverse line up
of grime, pop and dance music. Amidst the crowd, I
catch sight of a ‘Master of Puppets’ t-shirt on a man
with beer in hand, baffled by a group of girls twerking
outside the dance stage... and the my faith in Reading
Fest is restored! Here are some of our best rock moments from Reading Festival 2015:
LIMP BIZKIT
They’ve been touring like crazy and tonight we can’t
think of a better way to celebrate 20 years of Limp
Bizkit. In 1995, we were whipped up into a disillusioned state of nu metal angst, and something tells me
we are heading for something very similar tonight at
Reading. The crowd are pumped and the NME tent is
almost shaking with adrenaline.
Frontman Fred Durst, as expected, is sporting that familiar baseball cap, baggy tracksuit and bad attitude;
pumped and ready to reignite moments of teenage
anger. Bizkit storm through hit after hit. A complete
back catalogue of their greatest classics including
‘Rollin’, ‘My Way’, ‘Take a Look Around’ and ‘My Generation’. The kind of tracks you didn’t realise you knew
every single word to until you were screaming them
in the face of the person next to you in the crowd.
Now, we’re not trying to change Durst’s bad boy reputation, but tonight he’s gone all soft. Durst offers ‘everyone in this tent free beer’ (two each actually), before
stopping ‘Break Stuff’ mid-frenzy, to make sure fans
that had fallen in the mosh pit were pulled up off the
ground.
We can’t help but get caught in the hysteria, singing
“If you can’t handle the
heat, get out of the
kitchen!“ - Fred Durst
George Michael’s ‘Faith’ and RATM’s ‘Killing in The
Name Of’ at the top of our lungs, as Durst tells us to
‘‘Turn it up - let’s have some Limb Bizkit karaoke right
now’’. We