Conference napalm::heavy_metal

1029.0. "Reading Festival" by PEKING::PERKINSP (It only hurts if you survive) Wed Aug 17 1994 10:31

Friday 26th August (2pm start)

Headline Main Stage:	Lemonheads

Leamonheads, Frank Black, Pavement, Gang Starr, Trans-Global Underground,
The Verve, The Flaming Lips, Collapsed Lung.

Melody Maker Stage:	Wedding Present

Wedding Present, Sebadoh, The Auteurs, Sleeper, Velocity Girl, Honky, Smudge,
Drugstore, Deus.

Loaded Comedy Stage:	Jo Brand

Jo Brand, Martin Coyote, John Otway, Attila the Stockbroker, Greatest show
on legs, Man with Beard, Stu Whu, Steve Gribbin, Ian Stone, Andre Vincent.

Saturday 27th August (Midday start)

Headline Main Stage:	Primal Scream

Primal Scream, Ice Cube, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Pulp,
Terrorvision, Senseless things, Fun-da-mental, Kitchens of distinction,
Rev. Horton HEat, Luscious Jackson.

Melody Maker Stage:	Madder Rose

Madder Rose, Elastica, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Compulsion, Superchunk,
Tiny Monroe, Gene, Lotions, Salad Jale, Possum Dixon, Scarce, Shooty'z
Groove.

Loaded Comedy Stage:	Frank Sidebottom

Frank Sidebottom, Mark Thomas, John Thompson, Simon Day, Ian Cognoti, The
Chefs of minimum attire, Time Vine, Keith Dover, Raymond and mr timkins
review, Helen Austin.

Sunday 28th August (Midday Start)

Headline Main Stage:	Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, unannounced special guest, Rollins Band,
Senser, Afghan Whigs, The Wildhearts, Helmet, Jesus Lizard, Stabbing
Westward, Cop shoot Cop.

Melody Maker Stage:	Tindersticks

Tindersticks, American Music Club, CUD, Echobelly, Boredoms, Morphine, Jeff
Buckley, Archers of Loaf, Scrawl, Dig, Cellophane.

Loaded Comedy Stage:	Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard, Felix, The Tracey Brothers, Lee Hurst, John Mann, Mark Maler,
Dave Spikey, Sean Meo, Matt Welcome, Paul B Edwards. 

    Flip - Is it true that you can only get tickets for individual days
    on the day,and not in advance?
    

    
    I'm not entirely sure.  That would be the truth for previous years, 
    but I had heard that you would be able to purchase day tickets in 
    advance for this year's event.  At this late stage you may as well get
    them at the festival.  Last year we managed to pick up a weekend
    pass from a tout for 25 quid - less than half price - but this was at
    10pm on the Friday night.  Still two days for 25 quid ain't bad.
    
    Are you going on sunday?
    
    Flip
    

    Apparently you can now get individual tickets from the usual vendors -
    ie,HMV,Green River etc. So I expect i`ll be getting a ticket for
    Sunday,which is a hefty 25 quid apparently.
    

    
    
    Did anyone go????  Well i did and i had a great time!!!
    
    	Best bands:  Red Hot Chili Peppers
    		     Helmet
    		     Rollins Band
    		     Shooty'n Groove
    		     Hole
    		     Ice Cube
    		     
    
    	Worst Bands: Terrorvision
    		     Wildhearts
    		     Pulp
    
    
    	The best festival so far this year......
    
    
    
    			EWAN

    
    
    Pulp? Is that OJ's band?? 
    
    ;'))
    
    I know, I know.. Boooooooooooooo... 

    been there seen and done it,too drunk to remember much ,soundgarden are
    complete whimps for pulling out.ice cube and gangstar should have
    pulled out as well and the beer was too expensive.the weather was good
        
        		brick

    Sunday was good. Apart from wondering into the camping site at the
    end of the night instead heading for the exit.