I've been really busy recently and haven't had time to write my full Leeds Festival review. With the few moments I have now I'm going to quickly review each of the artists I saw from what are some very vague memmories, so excuss the breifness.

Friday

The Walkmen - Ok but nothing speical.

The Futureheads - Same as The Walkmen really

Gaslight Anthem - If I recall I liked these a bit...

Hadouken - These were pretty cool. A more repeative Pendulum is what I originally thought. 

Kids in glass Houses - Enjoyed these.

Frank Turner - FTHC is one of the more memorable artists. His set was great. Really enjoyable music with clever and meaningful lyrics. I'm actually seeing Frank Turner on the 10th Decemeber. This is definately someone worth seeing.

Dizzee Rascal - Not a Dizzee fan but it was a good, cheesy, and fun set. He did ruining Smell's Like Teen Spirity by using the music and rapping over it. I'd have much prefered him doing a weird rendition of it.

Enter Shikari - I only caught a little of Enter Shikari but have seen them before. From what I saw and heard it seemed pretty awesome but not loud enough! And like Enter Shikari (and Pendulum) need to be played loud and at a festival you'd expect them to have that right. Nothing taking away from Enter Shikari though.

Pendulum - I'm a bit fan of Pendulum and seeing them live is fantastic. They did their stuff as great as I'd expect but again, as I mentioned, it wasn't loud enough!

Saturday

Motion City Soundtrack - These were alright but again average.

The King Blues - Now The King Blues weren't a band I had heard of and when they came on stage I saw the lead singer who looked a bit like a chav. I feel a bit ashamed really for judging them straight away because they turned out to be an excellent band. Really worth taking a listen to. They used all sorts of different instruments which was impressive. Like Frank Turner, The Kings Blues were great to listen to and have intelligent lyrics. 

All Time Low - These guys were very vulgar, a bit on the "oooh that's not funny" or "that's just creepy". The music was ok but nothing I'd go out an listen to especially.

You Me At Six - Overrated! I could leave it at just one word but that would be unfair. They are quite good with a couple of catchy/cool songs but too hyped.

Limp Bizkit - Old Skool is kool! Love Limp Bizket and have done for years. These guys are great. Fun music that reminded my of the old days of school. The mosh pits are great fun too. If you've never seen them I'd highly recommend you get your arse down to their next show. 

Cypress Hill - Knowing a few Cypress Hills songs I was some what interested in seeing these but not bothered if I missed them. They turned out to be more than expected. Some great rapping, tunes and record scratching.

Weezer - Snore! Weezer are another overrated band. They are really mediocor. A couple of songs are slightly about average but other than that they are just boring. For Weezer fans it would have been great but not for me.

Paramore - Paramore came on late for some reason and changed were a little disorganised. Hayley William's vocals were too quiet. Other than that I do really like Paramore, ESPECIALLY Hayley! The set was good but could have been better. I'll be seeing them in November so hopefully will redeem themselves.

Blink 182 - Another band I've not really gotten into at any point in my life but I do like them and their set really impressed me. I knew every song! Being the headliner you expect a show and what they had was really cool, six circlular screen with some neat animations. Travis Barker did some awesome upside down drumming.

Sunday

A Day To Remember - duh duh duh duh duh duh. duh duh duh duh duh. duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh. These guys were great fun.

The Skints - I think these were a ska/punk band or some sorts. Can say I remember them that well.

Gogol Bordello - Did nothing for me.

Nofx - Not a fan of their music and they tried to be funny but were just a bit creepy.

Lostprophets - I like a few Lostprophets songs but never been a huge fan. I wasn't expecting much from these guys... they were really good. There was a great happy feeling going around.

Biffy Clyro - These boys did a cracking set. Really good quality.

Queens of the Stone Age - A very solid performance but QOTSA haven't ever been a band that really get me going. Much link Them Crooked Vultures.

Axel and Friends (Guns 'n' Roses) - After reading what had happened at Reading in a newspaper no one was expecting much and that worked in our favour. They came on only 30 mins late, played every song I wanted to hear and some I didn't know I wanted to hear. It was actually a great show. Axel did annoy me a lot so arrogant and having ago at the festival organisers when HE came on late is just rediculous. But it was great to watch. What adds to it more is that Reading had a terrible time and only a few days after they were bottled, booed and walk off stage after only 4 songs in Dublin. Will Leeds be their last decent show?

Well that's it.

It's been a good weekend at Leeds Festival and I got home a few hours ago now. Damn I'm in a good mood, really cracking mood. As soon as I got home I turned up my speakers, blastest out some Kick In The Teeth by Papa Roach while dancing around like a fool in my boxers. Followed by some air guitaring to Guns n Roses. 

Following this post I'll be doing my usual day by day review of all the bands I saw but as this was my first Leeds festival I thought I'd do a bit of an overview of the whole festival. 

If you know a bit about festivals in the UK you'll know that Leeds is the sister festival to Reading. They take place on the same weekend and have the same line up but just on different days. If you don't, you now do. This year Reading had torrential rain and the Gun n Roses set was apparently an hour late, terrible and cut off during Paridise City. Haha! We in Leeds had a much better weekend. It was dry for the most part with only the occasional breif shower and Guns n Roses set was... I'll save that until the review post. 

One thing I really noticed about Leeds was it seemed like disordered order. Camping was all over the place including right next to fair ground rides. It worked fine but just seemed a little weird to me but then again I've only been the Sonisphere and Download festivals before. The toliets were pretty poor. If you're a guy and need a pee it's fine but if you're busted for the other and the arena isn't open you'd have been fresh out of luck becuase the majority of toliets were the open hole with a fixed, pee soaked, wooden seat. Not nice. I hear the girls toilets were quite nice.

There was a lot of crime in the campsites. On the second morning the people in the tents next to us had cameras and phones stolen in the night. They weren't the only ones. To add insult to the situation some other things were stolen from their group on two more seperate occasions, including one the of the girls's whole bag. The steward who came to see them the last time was saying someone had been "rinsing" the whole campsite. It's terrible. I was lucky, nothing stolen but someone had definately been in my tent (inner zip was open and I never leave it unzipped).

The stage set up was fine but there was a few issues with volume. I'll mention indiviual bands in my reviews. 

That'll do for now. The rest will come maybe today and tomorrow.