Conference marvin::uk_music

    Theres been no formal announcement yet, I think there still a lot of
    hassle with the organisers, I don't think that the Mean Fiddler are
    incharge this year.  The bands so far are Public enemy, and some others
    I can't remember.  (Nirvana, Wonderstuff?).  Not sure if I'll go or not
    this year.
    
    Mikef

    Public Image Ltd are `performing' as well.
    
    Tony

    Also :-
    Nick Cave,Mudhoney,Charlatans,Swans,LEVITATION,Sensitize,Kingmaker
    EMF,Mega City Four,PJ Harvey,Scorpio Rising,Superchunk,Pavement,Shohen
    Knife and The Frank And Walters.
    Nirvana and Wonderstuff are playing - so says the paper.
    
    There's also a festival at Finsbury Park on June the 6 which includes
    :- Buffalo Tom,J+MC,Verve and the Blue Angels.
    
    
    					stuart.

	I read that it will also be at a different site this year.  There's
	also some "surprises" planned to commemorate the 20th year of the
	festival.  The Mean Fiddler tent will also be up but as mentioned
	there is some sort of row going on.  {I asked some where else, a
	Reading '92 note in Rad, maybe) what a row is, from the context I'd 
	assume it's some sort of heated dispute.

	- Jim

    Does anyone know when it all takes place though ?
    
    Hawkesy.
    

	Bank Holiday weekend in August, Friday through Sunday.

    
    
    Read the other day that RIDE have confirmed that they will be playing,
    and according to Melody Maker, it's second fiddle to Public Enemy (EH?)
    	I for one will certainly be going.
    
    Greg...

    I take it's still �45 - is the bank holiday something like 21st - 243rd
    - need to book a holiday - brilliant if Ride are playing.
    
    
    				stuart

    Hi gang, 
             The main acts confirmed so far, are the Wonder Stuff and
    Charlatans to play Friday. Public Enemy and RIDE (Yeehaa) are playing
    Saturday, and Nirvarna are headlining Sunday. The bands are definite
    however the nights may be slightly different. Should be good this year.
    The festival is being run by mean fiddler at the normal site. According 
    to Melody Maker another organisation (no name) is holding a
    alternative "Redding" elsewhere.. 	No bands confirmed yet! Also
    playing the real Reading are PIL,Silverfish, and Kingmaker.
    
                           See you there,
                                          Steve T                                                                           

    
    Line up so far:
    
    Radio 1 Sessions Tent - Suede, Swans, Levitation, Spritualized, Cop
    Shoot Cop, Sensitise, Natural Life, Shonen Knife, Scorpio Rising,
    Adorable, Pele, The Sandkings, Captain America, Spitfire, Urge
    Overkill.
    
    Not sure which days people will be on, but it looks like Swans and
    Levitation will top the bill on Friday, Spiritualised will support
    someone else not yet confirmed on Saturday, and no Sunday headliners
    have been confirmed yet.
    
    
    Friday 28th August - Milltown Brothers, School Of Fish, The Wonder
    Stuff, The Charlatans, PiL, P J Harvey, Mega City Four (one more band
    yet to be confirmed.)
    
    Saturday 29th August - Manic Street Preachers, Jellyfish, Smashing
    Pumpkins, The Rollins Band, Buffalo Tom, Therapy?, Public Enemy, Ride,
    EMF, Pavement
    
    Sunday 30th August - Teenage Fanclub, L7, Nirvana, Nick Cave, Mudhoney,
    Beastie Boys (four more bands yet to be confirmed.)
    
    Running orders have yet to be confirmed.
    
    All information stolen from this weeks melody Maker.
    
    Steve.

	What about the comedy line-up?

	- Jim

    You must be joking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Smashing Pumkins - Henry Rollins - Buffalo Tom - what with Levitation,Ride
    Nirvana - what a line up - the only band missing now are Fatima Mansions.
    
               As someone else said - YEEEEEHAAAA!

    
    This festival seems to be really great, with lots of bands I like...
    
    I live in France, and I am planning to go there this year for the 
    first time...
    
    Has anybody got a room to hire for that period ???
     
    If so send me a mail
    
    Thanks, Bruce.
    
    

    Curve are also playing - will post the main stage line-up later.

    
    Here are the acts for the 20th Reading Festival as featured in this
    weeks MM;
    
    Friday 28th August from 2 p.m.
    
    Wonderstuff, Charlatans, PIL, P.J.Harvey, Mega City Four, Milltown
    Brothers and School of Fish
    
    
    Saturday 29th August from noon.
    
    Public Enemy, RIDE, E.M.F., Manic Street Preachers, Jellyfish, Smashing
    Pumpkins, Rollins Band, Buffalo Tom, Therapy? and Pavement.
    
    
    Sunday 30th August from noon.
    
    Nirvana, Nick Cave and the bad seeds, Mudhoney, Teenage Fanclub, L7,
    Beastie Boys!!!, Bjorn Again and Tad.
    
    
    In the Radio 1 session tent are; (In alphabetical order)
    
    Adorable, B.A.D.II, Captain America, Cop Shoot Cop, Curve, Levitation,
    Natural Life, Pele, Rocking Birds Rolling Review, Sandkings, Scorpio
    Rising, Sensitize, Shonen Knife, Spiritualized, Spitfire, Suede, Swans,
    The Stairs, Tribe, Urge overkill + Others T.B.A.
    
    
    The ad is in this weeks Melody Maker and the ticket for the week-end
    costs �45 (Plus 60p booking fee)
    
    Greg...
    

    I know that this isn't the place but...
    
    Has anyone any info on the gigs in Finsbury park in two or three weeks
    time.....isn't the Irish day on at that time as well..
    
    kev

    James with P.I.L. supporting - Sat. 4th July - �17.50 , �25 include
    rides.Phone 0538-702200.
    I noticed it says "subject to licence" the local council were objecting
    to the show - I think.

    >Here are the acts for the 20th Reading Festival as featured in this
    >weeks MM;
    
    Is that what it says?  I mean about being the 20th?  I vaguely remember
    going to one a few years back that claimed to be the 25th.
    
    Makes no odds really I suppose, I can't afford �45 out of my sweet
    money.
    
    Paul

    re .18
    
    If I remember rightly, the Reading Rock Festival wasn't always the Reading
    Rock Festival. It has only been the Reading Rock Festival for about 20
    odd years.
    
    Now the explanation:
    
    The Reading Rock Festival used to have some pretentious title like The
    National Rock Festival. That had its 25th anniversary a few years back.
    The last 20 instances of the National Rock Festival have been at
    Reading, hence the 20th Reading Rock Festival.
    
    Balders
    

    In the MM it said that "due to groung capacity" there will only be
    25K 3-day tickets availiable - I take it it's being held at a different
    location then.

    Catherine Wheel,Screaming Trees,The Melvins,Mudhoney,Cardiacs,THASTC,
    The God Machine,Revolver,Midway Still and The Belltower are added to
    the bill as well as BADII - Is that big audio dynamite? 
                               
    Is the Screaming Tress from Boston and on Sub-Pop?
    
    I take it the Swans and Tad have been taken off as they aren't
    mentioned - in this weeks MM.
    
    					stuart

> BADII - Is that big audio dynamite? 

I have heard talk on the radio of "Big Audio Dynamite 2" so this must be them:
don't know where the '2' came from, though.

+Mark+

    Call themselves BADII now that Don Letts isn't with them anymore.
    
    Mikef

Don Letts has his own band these days - Screaming Target.


Rod

    Fatima Mansions and Thousand Yard Stare have been added - (another two
    great bands.)

As well as the usual vendors, you can buy tickets for the Reading festival
from Ye Tourist Information shoppe in the Reading town hall, in the town centre.
If you have a PTL (Passport to leisure) you get a couple of quid off.

Tickets are �48.50 for the three days.
Day tickets are available. In previous years these have *Only* been available
in advance. This year they are *only* available on the day.

Neal.

Newbury Council have refused permission to the Mean Fiddler people to stage 
their 'Redding Festival', so there should be no danger of anyone turning up to 
the wrong one - and no danger of an alternative do either.

grahame

    
    	Curve have pulled out of the festival - they were billed at the
    same time as Nirvana anyway.
    
    				stuart.
    
    P.S. - can you take beer in to the festival {in plastic containers}?

    P.S. - can you take beer in to the festival {in plastic containers}?

Camping area, anything goes, but don't think they'll let beer in the arena. 
They want you to drink their overpriced warm beer instead.

Last year, they wouldn't let you take beer in, and all other drinks in plastic
containers has the tops cut right off, so if you threw them, all the drink
would come out, and they wouldn't be so heavy.

Then again, I saw some people inside the arena with beer, so it depends whether
the bouncer finds it or not! The worst thing they can do is take it off you.

Steve (who can't afford the money or the time off this year! 8-[ )

    
RE:  Curve have pulled out of the festival - they were billed at the
     same time as Nirvana anyway.

	I was recently reading that Curve would not be performing for quite 
	some time which struck me funny since I didn't consider their 
	scheduled Reading appearance in late August to be a long time.

	- Jim

They are pretty petty about what you take in, no bottles, containers of any
kind, not even any sandwiches! :-(

								- JIM CAD*

What's the full line-up now then? Wondering whether to go this year because
it looks doo-doo...

								- JIM CAD*

    
    Hi there,
    
    we will arrive to London on the 23rd of August and we are planning to
    go to Reading. And a little more information would be appreciated:
    
    Re .20 said that 3-days tickets are limitted to 25K. Should we get
    tickets beforehand (from London or even earlier)?
    
    Re .26 said that 1-day tickets are available on site. How much per day?
    Are they unlimitted?
    
    How late bands are playing (especially interested in Sunday)?
    
    Accomodiations? What other options we have beside tent if any (prices,
    tel numbers)?
    
    See you there,
    	Heikki & Nelli

Hi,
	You'd be *very lucky* to get 3-day tickets now! However, a day ago,
HMV still had a few going for �60. 

	If you are not tenting you would lose nothing by paying for each day,
it is supposed to cost �20 on the day, when I have gone for a day or two before
I've just walked up, got a ticket pretty quick and gone in. The only restriction
is that once you are in the main arena you are in, with a 3-day ticket you
could go in and out.

								- JIM CAD*

    All three-day tickets are sold and single day tix can be got from the
    usual places and I read at the ground also - (camping and parking
    extra).
    
    p.s. The Farm have been added in place of the DHOH.
    
    
    				stuart.

    
    Ooops....... so it seems that we missed three-day tickets.
    
    Re -1:
    >All three-day tickets are sold and single day tix can be got from the
    >usual places and I read at the ground also - (camping and parking
    >extra).
    
    As we are foreigns one more simple question. What are "the usual
    places" in London so we could get at least single day tickets.
    
    Thanks,
        Heikki

    As far as I know the usual places are credit card hotlines - also you
    can buy them from record shops and travel shops but they usually send
    any tix they have left back some time,between 3days and two weeks,to
    the organisers.So if you aren't here early you maybe won't get them at
    the shops - anyway they ARE going to be on sale at the ground with the
    camping and parking extra - which should be resonable compared to the
    local farmers rates.
    
    				stuart.

    The tix can be bought in London at the following ticket agencies also,
    
    Albermarle,Stargreen,Ticketmaster,Premier and London Theatre Bookings.
    
    
    
    
    				stuart,

    Really enjoyed - Smashing Pumkins,Henry Rollins,L7,Teenage Fanclub -
    excellent,Charlatans,Dr.Phibes,Catherine Wheel,Buffalo Tom,Screaming
    Trees,Ride and was well impressed with EMF's slot.
    
    p.s.Nirvana weren't bad as well as the Beastie Boys.
    
    
    					stuart

    
    The charlatans were EXCELLENT. They really were good, as were EMF,
    Ride, Shonen Knife, and Scorpio Rising. 
    
    Greg...
    

    So what exactly did Miles Wonderstuff say about John Lydon?
    
    barry.

    I missed Scorpio Rising and Spiritualized who I really wanted to see -I
    couldn't get a list of the bands so missed a few including Finitribe -
    anyone see them.I was also surprised how good P.I.L were too.
    Levitation were crap but then again so is the album.
    
    Was there many arrests - I didn't see any trouble apart from a little
    bother my mate had.
    
    The mud wrestlers were hilarious.
    
    Faves were EMF Charlatans and Teenage Fanclub.
    
    Ride were good but - tired I think.
    
    
    
    I think I'll give Glastonbury a try next year.
    
    
    				stuart.

    Re 41
    
    Miles Hunt : I hear that Johnny Rotten has been slagging you off. 
                 Saying that England has gone lame.  It's easy to say that
                 when you live in California, maybe it's johnny Rotten
                 thats gone lame.  
    
    That is the exact words (I think).   NME was wrong last week with their
    transcription of the event. 
                   

    It says in the papers that that @thingy@ the girl from L7 trew into the 
    crowd was real - I her standing threateningly with it and then so it
    fly through the air but thought it would be a dummy?
    Aparantly someone got the real thing in the face - well done miss!
    
    
    					stuart

Hi,
	I thought PiL were good Friday but JL was being a complete twat! The 
sight of the skinny frame in big white shorts, t-shirt, trainers and pink
socks rubbing his crotch and doing pelvic thrusts was pathetic. Also he kept
trying to "shock" the crowd with rude words etc... (you know, like he has for
years.... yawn!). Didn't bother to see ChunderStuff, went to the pub.

	Saturday was a bit naff, PJ Harvey was excellent, I wish I had been
up front instead of sitting down, I thought that with all the hype PJ would
be a crap indie band; speaking of which, when the Charlatans were playing I
thought it was still the interval music! Didn't want to see Public Enemy, went 
to the pub.

	Sunday, weather was *awful*, but bands were good. Was severely 
disappointed to get there too late for Bjorn Again or L7 (what was the @thingy@)
but really enjoyed Mudhoney and Nick Cave (was near the front). Stayed at the
front for Nirvana. Great fun, was funny to Indie-pop-kids dragged out of the
masses after about 2.74 seconds! Went to find my girlie about halfway through
the set. It was Sunday. The pub was shut.

								- JIM CAD*

    The @thingy@ in question was a used tampon. Some fun-loving gal from
    L7 must have got carried away with the festival spirit as she decided 
    to share a bit of herself with the masses, in the form of an menstrual
    scud. I think even this puts GWAR and Alice Cooper to shame.
    
    :^)
    
    barry.
    
     

    Typical woman, no respect for other people !!
    
    Barry
    

	Bet they don't travel as far as the ones with 'wings'...

    >The @thingy@ in question was a used tampon. Some fun-loving gal from
    >L7 must have got carried away with the festival spirit as she decided
    >to share a bit of herself with the masses, in the form of an menstrual
    >scud.
    
    Good for her!!  I figured that's what whoever said thingy meant.  Way
    cool.  Reminds me of "Parents Weekend" Freshman year at the UofA when 
    my friends & I were drinking Sloe Gin Fizzes in the dorms & had the
    brilliant idea to dip some unused tampons into the drink (which is red)
    and throw them out the window.  Then we went downstairs and watched
    people's reaction.
    
    BTW- The ones with "wings" are sanitary napkins, not tampons.
    
    -Vicki 

    Yes the @thingy@ is what I meant to be a tampon - I was trying to be
    polite - maybe I shouldn't bother.I thought it was hilarious and once 
    again - good on her - a better reaction than that of the Farm who threw 
    cider over a punter who jockingly said he was a mud-thrower,the lead
    singer also tried to give him a Glesga Kiss - arseholes.
    I was looking forward to seeing The Farm but the lead singer was
    deplorable.I can't sing but think I would have done a better job than
    he did. 
    Never forget the sets of Henry Rollins - awesome and also Buffalo Tom
    and The Screaming Trees.
    
    				stuart.